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HSK
to bear / to support / to inherit
HSK 4
to admit / to concede / to recognize / recognition (diplomatic, artistic etc) / to acknowledge
HSK 4
to undertake / to assume (responsibility etc)
HSK 4
to inherit / to succeed to (the throne etc) / to carry on (a tradition etc)
HSK 5
to promise / to undertake to do something / commitment
HSK 6
(idiom) four-part structure of a composition: introduction, elucidation, pivot (shift in perspective), synthesis; (fig.) coherent structural progression in writing, narrative, or any unfolding process
to contract / to undertake (a job)
HSK 7-9
to undertake / to accept a contract
HSK 5
to take orders / to receive commands / to carry on (a tradition)
HSK 7-9
Chengde, a county in Chengde City 承德市, Hebei
traceable to the same stock (idiom); of a common origin (of trends, ideas etc)
lead underwriter
contractor
to fawn on / to flatter / to ingratiate oneself / flattery
main bearing
(idiom) (of a son) to carry on one's father's business or profession
to bear the weight / to sustain
HSK 7-9
to support / to bear (a weight) / to prop up
to undertake / to take on (i.e. to accept a task)
successor
Wu Cheng'en (1500-1582), author (or compiler) of novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记
to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance
HSK 7-9
to receive / to accept / to carry on
to confess / to admit / to come clean / calmly
to agree (to do sth) / to promise
(commerce) to accept (i.e. acknowledge as calling for payment) / to honor (a check, a promise)
to construct under contract
to underwrite (i.e. guarantee financing) / underwriting / to sell as agent / consignee
underwriting company / dealership / sales agency
to be indebted (to sb)
ball bearing
flatterer
to fawn upon sb in every possible way
(usu. of a structural component of a building) to bear a load / load-bearing (wall, pillar etc)
to take responsibility
flattering and fawning (idiom) / sweet-talking
contractor
to inherit a rank (from a predecessor)
carrying capacity
to complement one another
(successive periods of) peace and prosperity / peaceful
to support / to bear the weight of (a building)
right of inheritance
borrower / leaser / the hiring side of a contract
to take up sb's mantle / to follow in sb's steps
carrying capacity
to provide transport / to accept the Mandate of Heaven / to acknowledge one's calling to be emperor
(mechanical) bearing
trial judge
grantee (law)
non-vessel-owning common carrier (NVOCC) (transportation)
to curry favor / to get the desired outcome by flattery
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
to contract for an entire project
to cater to sb to make them happy (esp. of one's parents)
guilty plea (law)
heir / successor
to undertake / to assume (responsibility etc)
adoption (e.g. of a nephew as a son) / to inherit
to be indebted to sb for care / thank you for looking after me
to inherit / to follow / to adopt
carrier (of goods etc)
to live with one's parents, thus bringing them happiness (idiom)
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  *承* | 承* | *承
surname Cheng / Cheng (c. 2000 BC), third of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God
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  *承* | 承* | *承
to bear / to carry / to hold / to continue / to undertake / to take charge / owing to / due to / to receive
to accept a position on a provisional basis, in the absence of better qualified candidates (humble expr.)
sales agent / salesman / consignee / underwriter
to present (a draft) for acceptance (commerce)
tolerance / capability of adapting oneself
goods on consignment
roller bearing
Chengde, prefecture-level city in Hebei Province 河北省
to bear (responsibility) / to take on / to assume
leaser / tenant
Syngman Rhee (1875-1965), US-trained Korean politician and dictator, president of Republic of Korea 1948-1960
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
underwriting spread
inheritress
(responsible) crew
to rent / to lease
underwriting spread
lit. to respond to heaven and suit the times (idiom); to rule according to the will of heaven / the Divine Right of kings
fulcrum pin
underwriting group
to promise to pay
to promise readily
eldest grandson (to sustain upper storeys of ancestor worship)
goods on consignment
policy of non-recognition
Sima Chengzhen (655-735), Daoist priest in Tang dynasty
to transmit a document (up or down a chain of bureaucracy)
dealership
prior purchase right / right of first refusal (ROFR) / preemptive right to purchase
(literary) ceiling / (literary) canopy over a seat in ancient times to keep off dust
to comply with / to submit to
to expect (often in negative combination, I never expected...) / to look forward to
(often used in the negative) to anticipate; to expect; to think that sth would happen
you let me win (said politely after winning a game)

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