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HSK
rest / to rest
HSK 1
to go on vacation; to have a holiday; to take leave
HSK 2
to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement
HSK 3
leisure / relaxation / not working / idle / to enjoy leisure / to lie fallow
HSK 5
retirement pay / pension
HSK 7-9
(biology) dormant / (of a volcano) dormant / (computing) to hibernate
HSK 7-9
(medicine) (loanword) shock; to go into shock
HSK 7-9
don't think (that) / don't imagine (that)
HSK 7-9
to recuperate / to recover / to convalesce
HSK 7-9
to give up / to abandon (a goal etc) / to let sth go / forget it / let the matter drop
HSK 7-9
public holiday
to be on sick leave
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to rest / to stop doing sth for a period of time / to cease / (imperative) don't
to repudiate one's wife
endlessly / ceaselessly
to suspend schooling / to defer study
Houston, Texas
lobby / lounge
to rest / to relax / to take a break
to close the market (for a holiday or overnight etc)
noon break / lunch break / lunchtime nap
(idiom) to let the matter rest; to just let it go; to take it lying down (usu. used in the negative)
to take deferred time off (to make up for working during the weekend or holidays) / compensatory leave
armistice
to recover / to recuperate
without stopping to sleep or have a rest (idiom)
don't blame (sb)
rest (music)
to cease fire / armistice / rested troops
to adjourn
to share the same interests (idiom) / to be closely related / to be in the same boat
David Hume (1711-1776), Scottish Enlightenment philosopher
to request permission to resign from an official position (old)
Xiuning, a county in Huangshan 黃山|黄山, Anhui
Jiexiu, county-level city in Jinzhong 晉中市|晋中市, Shanxi
to rest and reorganize (military)
to take holidays in rotation / to stagger employees' days off / (agriculture) to lie fallow in rotation
(idiom) to chatter endlessly; to talk nonstop
Houston, Texas
to retire / to leave work and rest (euphemism for compulsory retirement of old cadres)
to stop
Lake Huron, one of the Great Lakes 五大湖
to let matters rest
(idiom) to chatter endlessly; to talk nonstop
dormant volcano
to talk incessantly / to chatter on and on
to leave farmland to lie fallow
complete rest (after an illness)
(Tw) two-day weekend (usually Saturday and Sunday)
to shift holidays, taking a weekday off
casual pants
leisure shoes
to fight to one's last gasp
Xiuning, a county in Huangshan 黃山|黄山, Anhui
ceaseless; endless (idiom)
shared lounge; common room
to get thoroughly drunk (idiom) / to get plastered
anaphylactic shock
paid leave
to compensate for working on a holiday by resting on a workday / to compensate for resting on a workday by working on a holiday
lit. either don't do it, or don't rest (idiom) / fig. if you do it at all, you may as well go the whole hog / in for a penny, in for a pound
rest for now / stop (usually imperative form)
Hewitt
to adjourn (law)
recess
Houston
sport utility vehicle (SUV)
(bird species of China) Hume's treecreeper (Certhia manipurensis)
(bird species of China) Hume's bush warbler (Horornis brunnescens)
(literary) a regular day off granted to officials in ancient times, for "rest and bathing"
Sebta or Ceuta (city in north Morocco)
to have a public holiday; to have an official holiday / (Tw) (of a business establishment) to be closed regularly on certain days, as determined by a trade association
angry / wrathful
Whitney Houston (1963-2012), American singer and actress
Mogadishu, capital of Somalia (Tw)
to put down weapon and let soldiers rest (idiom); to relax from fighting
kwashiorkor (medicine)
two-day weekend (abbr. for 雙休日|双休日)
two-day weekend


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