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改

gǎi
HSK 2

English Meaning

to change; to alter; to transform; to correct

Authentic Cinema Dialogue 3 CURATED EVIDENCE CLIPS
那我还怎么逆天改命啊
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💡 INTENT:

“If this route fails, all my efforts to escape my doomed destiny are ruined.”

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不就没用了吗

“be useless to him?”

“How am I supposed to change my fate then?”

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晚音 不对

“-Wanyin. -Something is wrong.”

《成何体统》 · historical_and_court
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多少次的改朝换代
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💡 INTENT:

“Political power may rise and fall, but our core civilizational identity outlasts them all.”

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中国就存在了五千年

“China existed for five thousand years.”

“Through countless dynastic changes,”

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可是文化没有亡

“culture has not died.”

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这不就改命了吗
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💡 INTENT:

“See? His whole future is transformed now, exactly as we hoped.”

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以后他就是城里人了 将来再娶个城里的媳妇

“be a city man then. If he marries a city woman,”

“his life will change.”

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赵凯我见过

“I've met Zhao Kai.”

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