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HSK
to work / (of a machine) to operate / job / work / task / CL: 個|个, , 項|项
HSK 1
work (of art) / opus / CL: ,
HSK 3
to make; to manufacture
HSK 3
to call / to be called
HSK 2
movement; motion; action (CL:個|个) / to act; to move
HSK 1
author / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
school assignment / homework / work / task / operation / CL: 個|个 / to operate
HSK 2
to act on; to affect / action; function; activity / impact; result; effect / purpose; intent / (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 抑制作用, inhibition
HSK 2
to create; to produce; to write / a creative work; a creation
HSK 3
to write an essay / composition (student essay) / CL:
HSK 2
to become invalid / to cancel / to delete / to nullify
HSK 6
to operate / operations / workings / activities (usu. of an organization) / thread (computing)
HSK 6
to put out / to come up with / to make (a choice, decision, proposal, response, comment etc) / to issue (a permit, statement, explanation, apology, reassurance to the public etc) / to draw (conclusion) / to deliver (speech, judgment) / to devise (explanation) / to extract
HSK 4
to write / to compose / writing / written works
HSK 3
workday / working day / weekday
HSK 5
one's conduct / deed / activity / accomplishment / achievement / to act as / as (in the capacity of) / qua / to view as / to look upon (sth as) / to take sth to be
HSK 4
author; writer
HSK 3
combat / to fight
HSK 6
to set oneself against / to oppose / to make a pair
HSK 7-9
to write / literary work / book / article / writings / CL:
HSK 4
to work / to operate / to manipulate
HSK 4
to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
HSK 7-9
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to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works
HSK 6
workload; volume of work
HSK 7-9
to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together
HSK 3
to hype / to promote (in the media)
HSK 6
to flare up; to break out
HSK 7-9
(farm) crops
HSK 7-9
in a spurt of energy
HSK 7-9
Fu Zuoyi (1895-1974), Guomindang general, subsequently PRC top general and politician
to change into / to turn into / to become
photosynthesis
to live somewhere as a visitor; to stay with sb as a guest; to sojourn
HSK 7-9
eight-hour working day
worker
inhibition
noncooperation
crop
HSK 7-9
creator; author
masterpiece
to compose (music)
dissolving / erosion by groundwater / corrosion
(of a ghost) to make strange things happen / to act up / to act behind the scenes / to make mischief / odd / to misbehave (euphemism for having sex)
routine
cooperative / workers' or agricultural producers' cooperative etc
HSK 7-9
lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom) / fig. everyday life; daily routine; to go about one's daily life
to take notes
to use for the purpose of / to serve as
literary work / art work
to regard as / to treat as
cooperation / coordination
HSK 7-9
multithreading
catalysis
to treat as / to regard as
HSK 6
staff member
to be called; to be known as
HSK 7-9
tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people
a perception that doesn't reflect reality / a notion based on an erroneous belief
studio / workshop
to join forces / to give full cooperation
operating system (Tw)
to look upon as / to regard as
HSK 6
to change into / to turn into / to become
to accompany / to keep sb company
to have an effect / to play a role / to be operative / to work / to function
to accomplish much / to have good prospects / to have a promising future
representative work (of an author or artist)
originality
to bear witness; to testify / to serve as evidence
one's conduct and deeds
HSK 7-9
to work and rest
not to shrink from any crime (idiom); to commit any imaginable misdeed
HSK 7-9
China Writers Association (CWA)
to be in charge in one's own house (idiom) / to be the master of one's own affairs
style / style of work / way
HSK 7-9
to bestir oneself / to pull oneself together / to cheer up / to uplift / to stimulate
HSK 7-9
to show off (loanword, from English "show") / to grandstand / to perform in a stage show
also written as
working report / operating report
(entertainment industry) producer
to do evil
can be used for
maker / manufacturer
seminal work that propels a writer (or artist, composer etc) to fame
to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model
HSK 7-9
normal operation / proper functioning
nonfeasance / omission (law)
daily schedule / work schedule
(physics) action force
reflex / reflection
weathering (of rocks) / erosion (by wind etc)
side effect
HSK 7-9
to pretend / to feign / to act a part
to rebel; to rise in revolt
United Front (either of the two alliances between the Guomindang and the Communist Party, 1923-1927 and 1937-1945)
to run amok (idiom); to commit outrages
(idiom) to reap what one has sown; to stew in one's own juice
attempting nothing and accomplishing nothing (idiom); without any initiative or drive / feckless
HSK 7-9
work / manual labor
composer / songwriter

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