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


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