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pressure
HSK 3
power; force; strength
HSK 3
to make an effort; to try hard; to strive / hard-working; conscientious
HSK 2
physical strength
HSK 4
motive power / (fig.) motivation; impetus
HSK 3
chocolate (loanword) / CL: 塊|块
HSK 4
capability / ability / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
power / influence / a force (military, political etc)
HSK 5
strength
HSK 3
intelligence / intellect
HSK 4
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  *力* | 力* | *力
power / force / strength / ability / strenuously
HSK 3
manpower / labor power
HSK 5
to strive one's hardest; to spare no effort
HSK 4
electrical power / electricity
HSK 6
hearing / listening ability
HSK 3
power / authority
HSK 6
to entail strenuous effort / to toil at a task / strenuous / laborious / strain
HSK 5
to do everything one can / to spare no effort / to strive
HSK 7-9
energy
HSK 4
physical strength / physical power
HSK 5
energy / vitality / vigor / vital force
HSK 5
potential; latent capacity
HSK 6
powerful / forceful / vigorous
HSK 5
spirit weary, strength exhausted (idiom); spent / drained / washed out
HSK 7-9
perseverance / willpower
HSK 7-9
energetically; vigorously
HSK 6
Rolex (Swiss wristwatch brand)
gravity
main force / main strength of an army
HSK 7-9
ability to judge / judgment
force of impact or thrust
to do at all costs / to make an all-out effort
HSK 7-9
driving force
to work hard for / to do all one can / to contend strongly
HSK 7-9
military force
HSK 7-9
regeneration through one's own effort (idiom) / self-reliance
HSK 7-9
force majeure; act of God
battleship
violence / force / violent
HSK 6
lame (unimpressive) / a huge letdown / not to try at all
to help; to aid / assistance
merit / efficacy / competence / skill / power
HSK 7-9
charm / fascination / glamor / charisma
HSK 7-9
advocate strongly
strength / vigor / efforts / (music) dynamics
HSK 7-9
with all one's strength / full strength / all-out (effort) / fully (support)
HSK 6
effectiveness / positive effect / to serve (in some capacity)
HSK 7-9
fired power plant (i.e. fired by coal, oil or gas)
(idiom) to lack the ability to do what one would wish
HSK 7-9
infectiousness (of a disease) / appeal; power; impact (of an image, marketing message, performance etc)
HSK 7-9
rally (car race) (loanword)
stress (physics)
physical labor
resistance / drag
HSK 7-9
to exert oneself
as far as one's capabilities extend (idiom); to the best of one's ability / within one's powers
HSK 7-9
to put effort into sth / to try really hard
HSK 7-9
feeling of powerlessness / sense of helplessness
to work with a common purpose (idiom); to make concerted efforts / to pull together / to work as one
bitter work / hard toil / (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times
HSK 7-9
to spare no pains or effort (idiom); to do one's utmost
to make every effort to / striving to do one's best
HSK 7-9
eyesight; visual acuity
HSK 7-9
(jocular) to be under great pressure (a pun on 亞歷山大|亚历山大)
(loanword) acrylic
pressure cooker
to join forces / to give full cooperation
might / formidable power
HSK 7-9
exhausted
to do sth oneself
lacking in strength; weak; feeble / not up to the task
human resources
cohesion / cohesiveness / cohesive
originality
Rio Tinto (UK-Australian mining corporation)
(idiom) evenly matched
to make a supreme effort / at all costs
HSK 7-9
ability to work
labor force / manpower
HSK 7-9
to exert oneself physically
HSK 7-9
ingenuity / creativity
one able to do light manual labor only / semi-able-bodied or part time (farm) worker
(personal) warmth / approachability / accessibility / (in a product) user friendliness / (chemistry) affinity
HSK 7-9
(physics) attraction (gravitational, magnetic, electrostatic etc) / suction / (fig.) attraction (power to attract interest or liking)
body weary, strength exhausted (idiom); extremely tired / spent
buoyancy
HSK 7-9
earth's gravity
mental and physical efforts
to urge / to press (for action)
to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis
courageous and strong (idiom) / Herculean (physique etc)
meritocracy
willpower
cool / nifty / awesome / impressive / to put in extra effort
wind force / wind power
HSK 7-9
atmospheric pressure
relay race
deterrent force / deterrent
a nation's power
conception / imagination

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