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HSK
to undertake / to assume (responsibility etc)
HSK 4
to bear / to support / to inherit
HSK 4
to undertake / to accept a contract
HSK 5
to admit / to concede / to recognize / recognition (diplomatic, artistic etc) / to acknowledge
HSK 4
(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 inherit / to succeed to (the throne etc) / to carry on (a tradition etc)
HSK 5
to contract / to undertake (a job)
HSK 7-9
to promise / to undertake to do something / commitment
HSK 6
to take orders / to receive commands / to carry on (a tradition)
HSK 7-9
(commerce) to accept (i.e. acknowledge as calling for payment) / to honor (a check, a promise)
contractor
to fawn on / to flatter / to ingratiate oneself / flattery
successor
to support / to bear (a weight) / to prop up
to undertake / to take on (i.e. to accept a task)
(idiom) (of a son) to carry on one's father's business or profession
lead underwriter
to bear (responsibility) / to take on / to assume
to underwrite (i.e. guarantee financing) / underwriting / to sell as agent / consignee
to receive / to accept / to carry on
to curry favor / to get the desired outcome by flattery
to confess / to admit / to come clean / calmly
Wu Cheng'en (1500-1582), author (or compiler) of novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记
to construct under contract
to inherit / to follow / to adopt
to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance
HSK 7-9
to be indebted (to sb)
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)
sales agent / salesman / consignee / underwriter
contractor
to inherit a rank (from a predecessor)
to complement one another
to agree (to do sth) / to promise
(successive periods of) peace and prosperity / peaceful
carrying capacity
Chengde, a county in Chengde City 承德市, Hebei
to support / to bear the weight of (a building)
to bear the weight / to sustain
HSK 7-9
borrower / leaser / the hiring side of a contract
rural household contract responsibility system, PRC government policy linking rural income to productivity
to provide transport / to accept the Mandate of Heaven / to acknowledge one's calling to be emperor
to transmit a document (up or down a chain of bureaucracy)
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
to be indebted to sb for care / thank you for looking after me
traceable to the same stock (idiom); of a common origin (of trends, ideas etc)
to contract for an entire project
goods on consignment
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.)
roller bearing
to cater to sb to make them happy (esp. of one's parents)
underwriting spread
to take responsibility
to undertake / to assume (responsibility etc)
carrying capacity
tolerance / capability of adapting oneself
adoption (e.g. of a nephew as a son) / to inherit
carrier (of goods etc)
heir / successor
(mechanical) bearing
lit. to respond to heaven and suit the times (idiom); to rule according to the will of heaven / the Divine Right of kings
to promise readily
grantee (law)
Chengde, prefecture-level city in Hebei Province 河北省
leaser / tenant
goods on consignment
Syngman Rhee (1875-1965), US-trained Korean politician and dictator, president of Republic of Korea 1948-1960
to agree / to promise
to present (a draft) for acceptance (commerce)
Sima Chengzhen (655-735), Daoist priest in Tang dynasty
flattering and fawning (idiom) / sweet-talking
you let me win (said politely after winning a game)
pin bearing
trial judge
non-vessel-owning common carrier (NVOCC) (transportation)
inheritress
to rent / to lease
(literary) ceiling / (literary) canopy over a seat in ancient times to keep off dust
right of inheritance
(responsible) crew
to promise to pay
prior purchase right / right of first refusal (ROFR) / preemptive right to purchase
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
fulcrum pin
underwriting spread
dealership
underwriting company / dealership / sales agency
main bearing
to comply with / to submit to
guilty plea (law)
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
eldest grandson (to sustain upper storeys of ancestor worship)
policy of non-recognition
to take up sb's mantle / to follow in sb's steps

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