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(drinking) straw / pipette / eyedropper / snorkel / CL:
HSK 4
to absorb / to assimilate / to ingest / to recruit
HSK 4
to attract; to appeal to; to fascinate
HSK 4
to smoke
HSK 4
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to breathe / to suck in / to absorb / to inhale
HSK 4
to breathe
HSK 4
to take drugs
HSK 6
to take in / to absorb / to admit / to accept
HSK 7-9
to absorb / to draw (a lesson, insight etc) / to assimilate
HSK 7-9
to adhere to a surface / to absorb / to draw in / (fig.) to attract / (chemistry) adsorption
to gasp (with amazement or shock etc) / to feel a chill run down one's spine / to have one's hairs stand on end
snorkel
respiratory system
smoking room
vacuum cleaner / dust catcher
to draw (towards) / to be drawn to / to be sucked in
to breathe / to absorb oxygen
schistosomiasis
sorption (generic term for absorption, adsorption, diffusion, precipitation etc)
(physics) attraction (gravitational, magnetic, electrostatic etc) / suction / (fig.) attraction (power to attract interest or liking)
(medicine) ventilator
vacuum cleaner
doorstop
sound-absorbing
(of an insect) to drink (nectar, sap, blood etc) / (of a person) to take (a narcotic drug) / to drink through a straw
leech / bloodsucking vermin / vampire (translated European notion) / fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
to suck on (sth) / to suck in
respiratory tract
to inhale / to draw in breath
to suck
artificial respiration (medicine)
upper respiratory tract infection
sound absorption
absorbent
breast pump
to breathe in / to suck in / to inhale
schistosoma
a magnet / same as 磁鐵|磁铁
heat absorption
to suck blood
absorbed dose
liver fluke
siphon
smoking area
oral sucker (e.g. on bloodsucking parasite)
(of a magnet) to attract metallic objects / (fig.) to exert a magnetic attraction (for investment, tourists etc)
to vacuum the floor
sucker mouth
to absorb moisture
(neologism c. 2017) to dote on cats
to attract attention; to catch attention
No smoking!
(lit. and fig.) to siphon
epiglottis
to suckle / to pump breast milk with a breast pump
to increase one's followers; to get more fans
to draw a lesson (from a setback)
shark sucker (Echeneis naucrates)
(bird species of China) rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus)
accretion
inhalant
gravitation
No smoking / Please do not smoke
attractor (math., dynamical systems)
severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
"magnetic" force that attracts investment and talented individuals / in particular, the attraction China has for people and capital from around the world
drug addiction
vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
absorbent
absorption / absorbability (chemistry)
sleep apnea
schistosome, parasitic flatworm causing snail fever (bilharzia or schistosomiasis)
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)
(scuba diving) regulator; demand valve
(scuba diving) backup regulator; octopus
Like attracts like.
inhaler
suction valve
attractive force (such as gravitation) / sex appeal / attractiveness
attractor network
toilet plunger
aspirator
absorbent
to absorb / to take in and retain
to absorb completely / to drink up
suction pad / sucker
eye-catching
to absorb carbon
honeyeater (bird of family Meliphagidae)
trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, approx 6000 species, mostly parasite, incl. on humans
Class Trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, a parasite incl. on humans
blood sucker / a leech / leecher
to inhale / to breathe in
money-spinning / moneymaking
flush-mounted ceiling lamp (loanword)
(medicine) ventilator
regulator (diving)
to resume smoking (after giving up) / to relapse into smoking or drug abuse
opposite polarities attract / (fig.) opposite sexes attract / opposites attract
mutual attraction (e.g. electrostatic) / to attract one another

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