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HSK
unceasing / uninterrupted / continuous / constant
HSK 3
to judge / to determine / judgment
HSK 3
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  *断* | 断* | *断
to break / to snap / to cut off / to give up or abstain from sth / to judge / (usu. used in the negative) absolutely / definitely / decidedly
HSK 3
to cut short / to break off / to discontinue / to interrupt
HSK 5
to diagnose
HSK 5
to interrupt / to break off / to break (a bone)
HSK 6
ability to judge / judgment
to monopolize
HSK 7-9
to conclude / to determine / to come to a judgment
HSK 7-9
certainly
firm / decisive
HSK 7-9
to break / to sever / to turn off (electric switch)
to cut / to snip
to cut off access to the Internet; to shut down the Internet
to cut off; to sever
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to make a clean break with; to have nothing more to do with
to bring to a conclusion / to settle (a dispute) / to do away with (oneself) / to break off (a relationship) / resolution (of a problem)
designed to be torn off along a line of perforations
to make a decision / resolution / decisiveness / resolute
to quit (taking drugs, alcohol etc); withdrawal
to infer / to deduce / to predict / to extrapolate
HSK 7-9
fracture / rupture / to break apart
HSK 7-9
(idiom) in unbroken succession; continuous
indecisive / irresolute
disconnected / interrupted / suspended / a gap / a break
HSK 7-9
even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb)
(finance) trading curb; circuit breaker
intermittent
(idiom) in an unending stream; continuous
HSK 7-9
to experience a power outage; to have a power failure
to cut off / to sever
wise and resolute
to break up or prevent monopolies / anti-monopoly; antitrust
to break or cut in two / to sever / to cut off / (fig.) to cut off (a conversation, a flow etc) / to interrupt / (math.) to truncate
to cut off / to chop sth in half
a kite that is lost after its string breaks (metaphor for sb one never hears from anymore)
lit. quick sword cuts through tangled hemp (idiom); decisive action in a complex situation / cutting the Gordian knot
to shut off
intermittent / off and on / discontinuous / stop-go / stammering / disjointed / inarticulate
HSK 7-9
to act arbitrarily / to make decisions without consulting others
to assert / assertion
(idiom) resourceful and decisive; resolute and sagacious
arbitrary / subjective / dogmatic
to buy out / buyout / severance
steep cliff / crag / precipice
to sever; to break off
to default on a mortgage / to stop supplying sth
to pause at appropriate points in reading aloud unpunctuated writing / to punctuate
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
computed tomography
to stop breathing / to breathe one's last / to die / to cut the gas supply
dead-end road; (fig.) impasse
to cross (a road, an ocean etc) / to cut across
arms enough to stem the stream (idiom); formidable army
(basketball) to steal (the ball) / (soccer) to dispossess an opponent (by tackling or intercepting a pass)
to run out of (stock)
(coll.) to suffer an alcohol-induced blackout / to be unable to recall what one did while drunk
(of fuse wire) to melt; to blow / (fig.) to halt stock trading / (fig.) to suspend an airline from operating flights on a given route (as a penalty, e.g. for bringing in more than a specified number of passengers who test positive for COVID)
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
CAT scan / CT scan
lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another
(of a fall in price, temperature etc) steep; precipitous
fault zone (geology)
Brokeback Mountain, 2005 English-language film by Ang Lee 李安
to die without progeny / (offensive) may you die childless / may you be the last of your family line
normal fault (geology)
to chop off
San Andreas Fault, California
circuit breaker
to split up / to break all ties
(sports) to steal / to intercept the ball
to act on an opportunity (idiom); to take prompt advantage of a situation
computed tomography
(of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break / (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued / (telephone or Internet connection) disconnected / cut off
heartbroken / to break one's heart
homosexual / see 斷袖之癖|断袖之癖
to fast / hunger strike
lit. to feel as if one's intestines have been cut short / broken-hearted (idiom)
oligopoly
to decide and act alone (idiom); to take arbitrary action / a law unto oneself
to judge
to wean; to be weaned / (TCM) to use medication to stop lactation
not to delay making a decision when a decision is needed
(zoology) (of a lizard etc) to shed its tail; to autotomize its tail / (animal husbandry) to cut the tail short; to dock the tail
to consider and decide
partition / to stand between / wall or fence serving as partition
to hang up (a phone)
to examine
broken leg
to decide alone without consultation / arbitrary / dictatorial
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
to rip one's robe as a sign of repudiating a sworn brotherhood (idiom) / to break all friendly ties
sold out / to be out of stock
annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda)
(fashion retailing) available only in a limited range of less popular sizes
to nip off (with fingernails etc) / (fig.) to cut off (supply etc) / to disconnect
to make prompt decisions (idiom)
Hengduan mountains, several parallel mountain ranges on the border between west Yunnan and Sichuan and east Tibet
to suffer serious injury (idiom)
to end a relationship / to break off diplomatic ties

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