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HSK
mechanism
HSK 5
legal system and institutions
HSK 5
to control
HSK 5
to restrict / to limit / to confine / restriction / limit / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
machine-processed; machine-made
HSK 5
to research and manufacture; to research and to develop
HSK 4
to restrain / to control / restraint / self-control
HSK 7-9
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 supervise the manufacture of / to supervise the shooting of films / executive producer (film)
to duplicate / to make a copy of / to copy / to reproduce / to clone
HSK 4
made of bamboo
to draft (a plan etc)
(Tw) to combat (bullying, money laundering etc) / to counter
to control
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)
to check / to contain / to hold back / to keep within limits / to constrain / to restrain
HSK 7-9
one country, two systems (PRC proposal regarding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan)
republic
to force; to compel; to coerce / forced; compulsory / Taiwan pr. [qiang3zhi4]
HSK 7-9
to suppress / to inhibit / to stifle
HSK 7-9
decimal
custom-made; made-to-order / to have sth custom made
specially made; custom-made
HSK 7-9
to sew / to make (clothes, bedding)
to make more of the same thing / to reproduce / to reprocess / to remanufacture
public ownership
to inhibit / to keep down / to suppress
HSK 7-9
monogamy
the one-child policy
bicameralism / bicameral legislative system
autocratic monarchy / imperial regime
democratic centralism
the feudal system / system of enfeoffment
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  *製* | 製* | *製
to manufacture / to make
HSK 7-9
private ownership of property
to record (video or audio)
HSK 7-9
to reorganize / to restructure
lit. to follow the recipe (idiom) / fig. to follow a set pattern
production / manufacture
system / organization
HSK 7-9
binary system (math.)
form / shape / structure / design
a system of payment partly in kind and partly in cash
to print / to produce (a publication)
credit system / grading system (in schools, universities etc)
system of constitutional government / (attributive) constitutional
custom-made; made-to-order / to have sth custom made
to modulate; modulation
system for identifying users (on a rail network, the Internet etc)
automatic control
full-time (schooling, work etc)
to resist / to boycott / to refuse (to cooperate) / to reject / resistance / refusal
HSK 7-9
to control / to curb / to restrict / to impede / to pin down (enemy troops)
HSK 7-9
transmission control
to formulate; to institute; to create
to go into mourning for one's parents
International System of Units
ownership of the means of production (in Marxism) / system of ownership
organizational structure
form of government
made in France
federal / federal system
autocracy / dictatorship
HSK 7-9
to make by hand / handmade
to copy / to imitate / to make by imitating a model
HSK 7-9
constitutional monarchy
to rule / to dominate
patriarchal system
two-party system
lit. to follow the recipe (idiom) / to follow the same plan
Chinese units of measurement
eight-hour working day
PRC system of compulsory registration of households
tailor-made
temperate / moderate / restrained
polygamy
economic system
self-made / improvised / homemade / handmade
to take countermeasures against / to hit back / to counter
distributed control
homemade / earthen
drawing (manufacturing process in which hot metal or glass is stretched)
hundred mark system
one party dictatorship
rural household contract responsibility system, PRC government policy linking rural income to productivity
currency system
limitless / unrestricted
to prepare (food etc) using a secret recipe
American made
silver standard (monetary system)
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  *制* | 制* | *制
system / to control / to regulate / variant of 製|制
HSK 7-9
to gather and process (herbs etc) / (of a reporter) to gather material and put together (a recorded news item)
chartering system
step by step system
(chemistry) to refine
monetary standard
refined
to maintain self-control / self-control

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