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HSK
to connect (a cable etc) / to hook up (a device) / to resume (a conversation) / to set (a bone)
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  *接* | 接* | *接
to receive / to answer (the phone) / to meet or welcome sb / to connect / to catch / to join / to extend / to take one's turn on duty / to take over for sb
HSK 2
to catch and hold on / to continue / to go on to do sth / to follow / to carry on / then / after that / subsequently / to proceed / to ensue / in turn / in one's turn
HSK 2
to welcome; to greet
HSK 3
to take on (a responsibility)
to put together / to join
to change shift
to whisper to one another's ear
HSK 7-9
lit. short-weaponed soldiery fight one another (idiom); fierce hand-to-hand infantry combat / to fight at close quarters
to pick up and drop off; to ferry back and forth
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to be out of breath; to gasp for air
to connect / to put through
HSK 7-9
interface / port / connector
direct object (grammar)
to approach; to get close to
HSK 3
connecting flight
to meet a challenge
earth (electric connection) / to earth
interlinked
immediately afterwards / shortly after that
HSK 7-9
to carry on one's ancestral line
application programming interface (API)
in touch with the common people / down-to-earth
to receive / to accept / to carry on
elder or elderberry (genus Sambucus)
overseas foreign direct investment (OFDI)
to take over (as minister, manager etc)
to meet a person
indirect
HSK 5
to access (a network) / to insert (a plug) into (a socket)
to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce
HSK 2
(of two things) to come into contact / to meet / to hand over to / to take over from / to associate with / to have friendly relations with / to have sexual intercourse
HSK 7-9
acceptability
relay baton / (fig.) responsibilities (passed over to one's successor)
to take over (from those working the previous shift) / to take over (in a leadership role etc) / to succeed sb
HSK 7-9
circumscribed circle (of a polygon)
lit. too much for the eye to take in (idiom); a feast for the eyes
to be vaccinated / to be inoculated
(idiom) to interact with people
(idiom) one after another; in quick succession
HSK 7-9
heterosexual sex
to come one after the other
to hold a welcoming dinner or reception
to receive sb / to grant an interview
HSK 7-9
application programming interface (API)
connection charge
to kiss
to link; to join; to connect
HSK 5
indirect object (grammar)
to discuss a matter with sb / to get in touch with / to arrange
successor
HSK 7-9
to admit (to membership)
HSK 7-9
bucket brigade / human chain
to join up / to dock / a joint (between components)
to take over (duties etc) / catcher (baseball etc)
HSK 7-9
receiver
to deliver (a newborn child)
on end / in a row / in succession
HSK 5
seamless connection
to take a customer's order / (of a taxi driver) to accept a booking / (of a delivery rider) to accept a delivery job
to accept an acting role
switchboard operator
lit. rubbing shoulders and following in each other's footsteps / a thronging crowd
hyphen
(computer networking) access point
relay race
accessible
to weld / welding
alley-oop (basketball)
to receive guests / to receive patrons (of prostitutes)
data interface
railtrack connection / to integrate into sth / to dock / to connect / to be in step with / to bring into line with / to align
HSK 7-9
reception (of transmitted signal) / to receive / to accept / to admit / to take over (e.g. a factory) / to expropriate
HSK 6
wiring / to connect a wire
data-direct (in LAN emulation)
(computing) access (to a network)
to follow / to continue
adjacent / next to
(genetics) spliceosome
external link (on a website)
to receive; to entertain; to host (guests, visitors or clients)
HSK 3
junction box (elec.)
seam / join / juncture
to bond / to splice
(network) cutover / (system) migration
to border on
to greet and usher in (guests, newcomers etc) / (Buddhism) to receive into the Pure Land
lit. to graft flowers onto a tree (idiom) / fig. to surreptitiously substitute one thing for another
virtual connection
cable gland
to join head to tail / bumper-to-bumper (of traffic jam)
to graft (a branch or bud onto a rootstock)
refusing to accept
recipient / person receiving sth
(idiom) in unbroken succession; continuous
to receive a served ball (volleyball, tennis etc) / to catch a ball thrown by sb
scion (branch or bud that is grafted onto rootstock)
direct tax
connector

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