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to receive / to accept / to collect / to put away / to restrain / to stop / in care of (used on address line after name)
HSK 2
to absorb / to assimilate / to ingest / to recruit
HSK 4
to recycle / to reclaim / to retrieve / to recover / to recall (a defective product)
HSK 5
to reap a bumper harvest
HSK 5
reception (of transmitted signal) / to receive / to accept / to admit / to take over (e.g. a factory) / to expropriate
HSK 6
to confiscate; to seize
HSK 6
to levy (a tax) / to expropriate
HSK 7-9
to hire / to recruit
HSK 7-9
to inspect and accept / acceptance
HSK 7-9
taxation
HSK 7-9
to increase revenue / to increase income by (x amount) / to levy (a surcharge, tax increase etc) / (of a school) to have an increased student intake
HSK 7-9
to sign for the acceptance of sth (e.g. a delivery etc)
to urge sb to provide sth / (esp.) to press (for payment of a debt); debt collection
to receive sth on another's behalf
to reject / to refuse to accept
sales / income / revenue
fall harvest / to reap
to generate revenue; to create extra income
(of a stock on the stock market) to close at (a certain price)
both fame and fortune (idiom) / both virtue and reward
spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom) / it's no use crying over spilt milk / what's done is done and can't be reversed / the damage is done / once divorced, there's no reuniting
to check sth and accept it
not a single grain was reaped (as in a bad harvest year)
nothing more beautiful can be imagined (idiom)
(agriculture) to have no harvest (due to flooding, diseases etc)
crop failure / poor harvest
to provide a stable crop, regardless of drought or flood / to bring a stable income
to accept (a favor) / to receive
(of a sum of money etc) receivable
net receipts / real income
recyclable
Wei Shou (506-572), writer and historian of Northern dynasty Qi 北齊|北齐, compiler of History of Wei of the Northern dynasties 魏書|魏书
to be impossible to stop once started
to charge different prices according to the situation / to collect (items) as appropriate
water once spilt cannot be retrieved (idiom); irreversible change
to accept without question / to take sth at face value
(idiom) to quit while one is ahead; to know when to stop


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