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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 reap a bumper harvest
HSK 5
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 levy (a tax) / to expropriate
HSK 7-9
to confiscate; to seize
HSK 6
reception (of transmitted signal) / to receive / to accept / to admit / to take over (e.g. a factory) / to expropriate
HSK 6
not a single grain was reaped (as in a bad harvest year)
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 inspect and accept / acceptance
HSK 7-9
recyclable
to hire / to recruit
HSK 7-9
to sign to acknowledge receipt of sth (e.g. a delivery or document)
to urge sb to provide sth / (esp.) to press (for payment of a debt); debt collection
to generate revenue; to create extra income
to reject / to refuse to accept
to receive sth on another's behalf
(of a courier) to pick up; to collect (parcels or goods for shipping)
(idiom) to quit while one is ahead; to know when to stop
to accept without question / to take sth at face value
fall harvest / to reap
to be impossible to stop once started
(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
net receipts / real income
sales / income / revenue
nothing more beautiful can be imagined (idiom)
to provide a stable crop, regardless of drought or flood / to bring a stable income
(agriculture) to have no harvest (due to flooding, diseases etc)
crop failure / poor harvest
(of a sum of money etc) receivable
to check sth and accept it
water once spilt cannot be retrieved (idiom); irreversible change
to charge different prices according to the situation / to collect (items) as appropriate
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 accept (a favor) / to receive


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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