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HSK
responsibility / blame / duty / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
director / head / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to trust / to have confidence in
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *任* | 任* | *任
to assign / to appoint / to take up a post / office / responsibility / to let / to allow / to give free rein to / no matter (how, what etc) / classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)
HSK 3
to hold a governmental office or post / to assume office of / to take charge of / to serve as
HSK 4
to take up a post; to start in a new job
HSK 7-9
to occupy a post currently / current (president etc); incumbent / (coll.) current boyfriend (girlfriend, spouse)
HSK 7-9
to hold a concurrent post / part-time; (in academia) adjunct
HSK 7-9
heavy responsibility
HSK 7-9
predecessor / ex- / former / ex (spouse etc)
HSK 7-9
to take office / to assume a post
HSK 7-9
to take office / previous (incumbent) / predecessor
HSK 7-9
qualified / competent (professionally) / to be up to a task
HSK 7-9
to appoint (to a position) / appointed
HSK 7-9
to continue in (a political) office / to serve for another term of office
HSK 7-9
teacher in charge of a class
to travel to take up a new post
full-time / to appoint sb to a specific task
to appoint
to transfer / to move to another post
first person to be appointed to a post
newly-appointed / newly elected / new (in a political office)
(of one person) to hold the successive posts of / (of several persons) the successive (presidents etc)
to leave office / to leave one's post
to succeed sb in a job / successor
successor / to take up a position subsequently as ... / (attributive) future; subsequent
to leave office
to take office; to assume a post
to be promoted to
to ignore / to let alone / to indulge
to take over (as minister, manager etc)
to promote and appoint
to remain in office; to hold on to one's job
special appointment
to let (sth happen) / to allow (sb to do sth) / to submit to / to yield
to fill a post of; to act as
not to be up to the task (idiom) / incompetent
(idiom) to take office; to assume a post
then (as in "the then chairman")
deputy director / assistant head
to resign (a position)
to be appointed or elevated to a post
to appoint / to be appointed
to retire / to leave one's position
rotating appointment (e.g. presidency of EU)
to attend / to take office / to be present (in administrative capacity)
legal responsibility; liability
Kong Shangren (1648-1718), Qing dramatist and poet, author of The Peach Blossom Fan 桃花扇
liable / responsible
to make it one's business / to take upon oneself to
at fault / blamed for / responsible (for a blunder or crime)
civil liability (law)
(literary) to entrust (sb) with an important task
to bear joint responsibility for sth / joint liability (law)
to evade responsibility / to shirk
-elect / designate / (i.e. elected or appointed but not yet installed)
trusty
director of the local committee of the Women's Federation
to set apart / to assign sb to a job
laissez-faire
next office holder / next to serve
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *任* | 任* | *任
surname Ren
corporate social responsibility (CSR)
permanent
to appoint
(of the holder of an official post which no longer exists) the last (incumbent)
extremely (pleased, grateful etc)
(idiom) expert at appointing people according to their abilities; to put the right people in the right places
head of a (university) department; department chair
to take responsibility / to bear responsibility / to be responsible
Yuen Ren Chao (1892-1982), Chinese-American linguist
to bear one's own responsibilities and not pass them to others (idiom)


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