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to put / to place / to release / to free / to let go / to let out / to set off (fireworks)
HSK 1
to dismiss students at the end of the school day
HSK 1
to have a holiday or vacation
HSK 1
to lay down; to put down / to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside / to lower (the blinds etc)
HSK 2
to feel relieved / to feel reassured / to be at ease
HSK 2
to bloom / to open / to be open (to the public) / to open up (to the outside) / to be open-minded / unrestrained by convention / unconstrained in one's sexuality
HSK 3
to broadcast; to transmit (by radio or TV)
HSK 3
to relax; to slacken; to loosen
HSK 4
to renounce; to abandon; to give up
HSK 5
to liberate / to emancipate / liberation / refers to the Communists' victory over the Nationalists in 1949 / CL:
HSK 5
to enlarge / to magnify
HSK 5
to provide / to give / to grant
HSK 6
to release / to set free / to liberate (a prisoner) / to discharge
HSK 7-9
to blossom
HSK 7-9
wanton / unbridled / presumptuous / impudent
HSK 7-9
to let off / to let slip by / to let sb get away with sth
HSK 7-9
to set up; to arrange; to lay out
HSK 7-9
to deposit / to store / to leave in sb's care
HSK 7-9
to arrange in order / to emit; to discharge (exhaust gas, waste water etc) / (of animals) to ovulate; to discharge semen
HSK 7-9
to show (a movie) / to screen
HSK 7-9
to indulge / to pamper / to connive at / permissive / indulgent / self-indulgent / unrestrained / undisciplined / uncultured / boorish
HSK 7-9
to park (a car etc) / to moor (a boat etc) / to leave sth (in a place)
HSK 7-9
to light / to set off (firecrackers etc)
HSK 7-9
to reform and open to the outside world / refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980
HSK 7-9
lit. to have a target in mind when shooting one's arrows (idiom) / fig. to have a clear objective
HSK 7-9
to put
HSK 7-9
to turn on the water / to let water out / (sports) to throw a game
HSK 7-9
to graze (livestock) / to herd (livestock)
to have no room to put sth / to be unable to let go
to raise (livestock or poultry) in an open environment / to breed (fish, bees, silkworms etc) in a suitable environment; to culture (kelp etc) / to release (a captive animal) into the wild
to set on fire / to commit arson / to create a disturbance
to tend a flock of sheep / to let sheep out to pasture / fig. to throw off the reins / to leave sb alone / acting freely and irresponsibly
to open fire / to shoot a gun
amplifier
to let go / to release
magnifying glass
People's Liberation Army (PRC armed forces)
to put into
scaling / resizing / zoom (graphics)
to relax (a rule) / to ease (restrictions) / to extend (a time limit) / to let out (a garment) / to expand / to broaden
electrical discharge / (coll.) to lure / to entice
to let pass
to input / to throw in / to unload / to put into circulation
unrestrained / dissolute / dissipated / unconventional / immoral / to debauch / to dissipate
to survey / to view broadly
to leave sth with sb
radiotherapy
licentious / wanton / morally unrestrained
to fire / to discharge / to release (fireworks, smokescreen, poison gas, virus etc)
laissez-faire
to exile / to banish / to deport / to float (logs) downstream
to reduce the pace (of movements, steps etc)
to care about / to take seriously / to take to heart
to relax completely / to empty one's mind / (finance) to sell short / (of a commercial vehicle) to travel empty (no cargo or passengers) / to deadhead
to put in / to insert
to slow / to slow down (the pace of)
to fart / to break wind / to talk nonsense / Utter rubbish!
to banish / to deport / to send into exile / to be marooned
to provide loans
bold and unrestrained / untrammeled
to pay attention to / to care about / to attach importance to
to allow to fly
very loudly / at the top of one's voice
to give orders / to spread news or rumors / to leak certain information intentionally
to let go one's hold / to give up / to have a free hand
to let off / to give out
to release / to set free / to allow (a person or an animal) to go / to liberate
to lend money (for interest); to give credit
Liberation city district / Jiefang district of Jiaozuo city 焦作市, Henan
radioactive
extroverted / outgoing / to play audio through speakers (rather than through earphones) / (old) to appoint to a post outside the capital
a hundred flowers bloom (idiom); let the arts have free expression
to shine (of talents, skills, accomplishment) / to demonstrate extraordinary talent or skill
to broadcast / to announce over loudspeakers
to allow in fresh air / to allow a prisoner out for exercise / to give out information
to ignore / to let alone / to indulge
to place upside down / to play (a video) backwards
a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956
to radiate / radioactive
to prattle on self-importantly (idiom)
to set level / to lay flat
to lend money (as a commercial loan)
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)
to act boldly
to set off firecrackers
to sob loudly; to bawl
(idiom) to get off one's high horse; to dispense with posturing (and adopt a more humble or empathetic attitude)
to devolve authority to lower levels
(idiom) to freely air one's views; to be heard far and wide; to attract a lot of attention
to pile up / to stack up
War of Liberation (1945-49), after which the Communists 共產黨武裝|共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 國民政府|国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
broadside / simultaneous fired cannonade
to display
use a long line to catch a big fish (idiom); a long-term plan for major returns
cinema room / viewing room
open system
lit. can pick it up or put it down (idiom) / fig. to take what comes / to meet gains or losses with equanimity
to lay down a heavy burden
bring it on! / give me all you got!
free-range chicken

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