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HSK
legal system and institutions
HSK 5
to duplicate / to make a copy of / to copy / to reproduce / to clone
HSK 4
to control
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *制* | 制* | *制
to manufacture / to make
HSK 7-9
mechanism
HSK 5
machine-processed; machine-made
HSK 5
to research and manufacture; to research and to develop
HSK 4
to restrict / to limit / to confine / restriction / limit / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
binary system (math.)
system / organization
HSK 7-9
one country, two systems (PRC proposal regarding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan)
two-party system
to establish (a unit or department) / authorized staffing allocation in government or public institutions (excluding temporary or contract staff)
HSK 6
to weave; to plait / to compile; to put together (a lesson plan, budget etc)
HSK 6
to copy / to imitate / to make by imitating a model
HSK 7-9
to restrain / to control / restraint / self-control
HSK 7-9
automatic control
eight-hour working day
old system / weights and measures of former times
(Tw) to combat (bullying, money laundering etc) / to counter
metric system
to control / to restrict / (PRC law) non-custodial sentence with specified restrictions on one's activities for up to 3 years (e.g. not to participate in demonstrations)
autocracy / dictatorship
HSK 7-9
to check / to contain / to hold back / to keep within limits / to constrain / to restrain
HSK 7-9
republic
system of weights and measures
form of government
specially made; custom-made
HSK 7-9
made in France
presidential system
hexadecimal
public ownership
to print / to produce (a publication)
to inhibit / to keep down / to suppress
HSK 7-9
monogamy
the one-child policy
International System of Units
autocratic monarchy / imperial regime
production / manufacture
multiparty system
to suppress / to inhibit / to stifle
HSK 7-9
to control / to curb / to restrict / to impede / to pin down (enemy troops)
HSK 7-9
democratic centralism
the feudal system / system of enfeoffment
to record (video or audio)
HSK 7-9
to draw; to draft (a map, blueprint, diagram, illustration etc)
lit. to follow the recipe (idiom) / fig. to follow a set pattern
bicameralism / bicameral legislative system
private ownership of property
to reorganize / to restructure
to cook / to prepare (food)
limitless / unrestricted
octal
slavery
credit system / grading system (in schools, universities etc)
(finance) trading curb; circuit breaker
form / shape / structure / design
lit. to follow the recipe (idiom) / to follow the same plan
distributed control
patriarchal system
to prepare (food etc) using a secret recipe
to concoct / to invent / to fabricate / to produce / to process / processing and curing (Chinese medicine)
custom-made; made-to-order / to have sth custom made
to force; to compel; to coerce / forced; compulsory / Taiwan pr. [qiang3zhi4]
HSK 7-9
to smoke; to cure over a fire
to formulate; to institute; to create
system for identifying users (on a rail network, the Internet etc)
full-time (schooling, work etc)
economic system
to resist / to boycott / to refuse (to cooperate) / to reject / resistance / refusal
HSK 7-9
constitutional monarchy
having a permanent post / part of the official staff
to go into mourning for one's parents
custom-made; made-to-order / to have sth custom made
parliamentary system
ownership of the means of production (in Marxism) / system of ownership
organizational structure
patriarchy
to rule / to dominate
incentive mechanism; incentives
logical link control / LLC
to convert; to reprocess; to turn (sth) into
Chinese units of measurement
etiquette / system of rites
imperial examination system
competition format; tournament system (e.g. round robin, single-elimination knockout etc)
a system of payment partly in kind and partly in cash
polygamy
absolute monarchy / autocracy
to record (songs, albums, CDs etc) / to cast (plaster, metal etc) into a mold
to take countermeasures against / to hit back / to counter
to compound (medicines etc) / to prepare (by mixing ingredients) / to concoct
homemade / earthen
hundred mark system
frequency modulation
daylight saving time
federal / federal system
to regulate / rules and regulations / regulatory / style and structure (esp. of building)
to make (by hammering, chipping etc) / to forge (silverware, metal implements etc)
system of job responsibility

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