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HSK
to review / revision / CL:
HSK 2
to restore; to renovate / (computing) to repair (a corrupted file etc)
HSK 5
(of people who were estranged) to be reconciled / (of a couple) to get back together
HSK 7-9
to reinstate / to resume / to restore / to recover / to regain / to rehabilitate
HSK 5
to recuperate / to recover (health) / to convalesce
HSK 6
to resume smoking (after giving up) / to relapse into smoking or drug abuse
to recover (health, economic) / to resuscitate / anabiosis
HSK 6
reciprocating saw
Guangfu or Kuangfu township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan
to recover (territory or power) / the liberation of Taiwan from Japanese rule in 1945
gone forever
to restore sth to its original state
to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection
HSK 7-9
day after day
HSK 7-9
to revive / to rejuvenate
HSK 7-9
lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one
retaliatory
Avengers (comics)
to restore (sth) to (its) former condition / to recover from illness / recovery
HSK 7-9
to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration) / to turn back the clock / neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文 / retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)
to revert to one's original surname
in the extreme (idiom) / incapable of further increase
to make reprisals; to retaliate / revenge; retaliation
HSK 7-9
to recover (lost territory etc) / to recapture
HSK 7-9
to recur (of a disease) / to reappear / to relapse (into a former bad state)
HSK 7-9
variant of 反覆|反复
HSK 3
(idiom) to come back to life (after death)
to check again; to re-examine
HSK 7-9
to recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc) / variant of 回覆
HSK 4
moreover
to reprint (a work that has been out of print) / to reissue (a vinyl album as a CD, etc) / to replicate / to recreate / (computing) fork (loanword)
to return / to come back
to recover health quickly; Get well soon!
vindictiveness
old illness recurs (idiom); a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem
rifling (spiral lines on inside of gun barrel imparting spin to the bullet)
to rehabilitate / to regain one's good name
to come back out of retirement; to get involved again after having withdrawn
to be reborn / to recover / to come back to life / to regenerate
to remarry (the same person)
convalescence
Easter
to reopen diplomatic relations
rehabilitation / recuperate
to restore the Ming dynasty
to regain one's eyesight / (astronomy) emersion
to resume classes
to go and come back / to make a return trip / backwards and forwards (e.g. of piston or pump action) / to reciprocate (of machine part)
variant of 答覆|答复
HSK 5
a new year begins (idiom)
eighth finals
Fudan University, Shanghai, abbr. for 復旦大學|复旦大学
Kai-Fu Lee (1961-), Taiwanese computer scientist and IT executive, founding president of Google China 2005-2009
a Zionist
lit. the end comes back to the start (idiom); the wheel comes full circle
lit. the cycle comes back to the start (idiom); to move in circles / the wheel comes full circle
to return to work (after a stoppage)
backwards and forwards action (e.g. of piston or pump) / reciprocating motion
(idiom) over the years; year after year
to lose what one has just obtained (idiom)
to re-examine; to recheck / (law) to conduct a judicial review; to retry (a case)
Fudan University, Shanghai
to reconsider / to reexamine / to review (e.g. a report prior to accepting it)
to recover one's power or authority / restoration (of a past regime)
rifle (loanword) / also written 來福槍|来福枪
Fudan University, Shanghai, abbr. for 復旦大學|复旦大学
to reappear / to persist (in memory)
to return to the same school and repeat a course from which one has already graduated, as a result of failing to get good enough results to progress to one's desired higher-level school
(idiom) to retaliate
Yan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and translator of Western books, esp. on social sciences
to report on completion of a mission / debriefing
to resume a post
repeatedly / time and time again
no longer; not again
tautology
to lose sth and then regain it (idiom)
to restore sb or sth to its original position / to regain the throne / to reset (a dislocated joint, an electronic device etc) / reset
to reweigh
Zionism
to demobilize / demobilization
(after completing a game of chess) to replay the game, analyzing the players' moves / (stock market) to resume trading
Han Fuju (1890–1938), Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) army general and governor of Shandong, executed by Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石 after he abandoned Jinan to the Japanese
reconstituted milk
variant of 復甦|复苏 / to recover (health, economic) / to resuscitate / anabiosis
HSK 6
to return to school (after an interruption) / to resume one's studies
to demobilize / to transfer to other tasks (of troops)
to recover lost territory
Fuxingmen neighborhood of Beijing
to refute
completely / totally recovered / healed
to revert to old ways
(finance) to adjust the price, volume etc of a security (typically to account for a stock split or after new shares are issued)
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
restored to one's official post / to send sb back to his former post
consigned to eternal damnation / with no hope of reprieve
to resume a meeting
repechage (supplementary qualifying round in sports)
to test positive again (for COVID-19) after previously testing positive and then later, negative; to have a rebound positive test result
Guangfu or Kuangfu township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan

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