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to judge / to determine / judgment
HSK 3
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  *斷* | 斷* | *斷
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
unceasing / uninterrupted / continuous / constant
HSK 3
to diagnose
HSK 5
to cut short / to break off / to discontinue / to interrupt
HSK 5
to interrupt / to break off / to break (a bone)
HSK 6
fracture / rupture / to break apart
HSK 7-9
to cut off; to sever
HSK 7-9
firm / decisive
HSK 7-9
disconnected / interrupted / suspended / a gap / a break
HSK 7-9
to monopolize
HSK 7-9
intermittent / off and on / discontinuous / stop-go / stammering / disjointed / inarticulate
HSK 7-9
to conclude / to determine / to come to a judgment
HSK 7-9
to infer / to deduce / to predict / to extrapolate
HSK 7-9
to snap sth off / to break
(of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break / (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued / (telephone or Internet connection) disconnected / cut off
to experience a power outage; to have a power failure
heartbroken / to break one's heart
to block / to obstruct / to intercept / to interdict
continuous / unceasing
(idiom) in an unending stream; continuous
intermittent
to make a decision / resolution / decisiveness / resolute
(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)
to break / to sever / to turn off (electric switch)
vertical section / longitudinal section
to buy out / buyout / severance
fault (geology) (CL:) / (fig.) gap; rupture (in the transmission of some skill) / (tomography) cross-sectional
ability to judge / judgment
to end a relationship / to break off diplomatic ties
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
resolute / definitive / categorically / absolutely
to pause at appropriate points in reading aloud unpunctuated writing / to punctuate
to bring to a conclusion / to settle (a dispute) / to do away with (oneself) / to break off (a relationship) / resolution (of a problem)
CAT scan / CT scan
to go without meals (due to poverty or scarcity)
to cut off / to chop sth in half
to decide alone without consultation / arbitrary / dictatorial
partition / to stand between / wall or fence serving as partition
(idiom) in unbroken succession; continuous
The Broken Bridge (at West Lake in Hangzhou)
to stop breathing / to breathe one's last / to die / to cut the gas supply
to infer / to judge / inference / judgment / conclusion
to run dry (of river)
indecisive / irresolute
to cut off / to sever
to nip off (with fingernails etc) / (fig.) to cut off (supply etc) / to disconnect
(idiom) to make a clean break with; to have nothing more to do with
to wean
to die without progeny / (offensive) may you die childless / may you be the last of your family line
horizontal section
to judge a case
(idiom) able to read; literate
to cross (a road, an ocean etc) / to cut across
(idiom) to quote out of context
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
to judge
guillotine / scaffold
arbitrary / subjective / dogmatic
to run out of food
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
section / fragment / segment
fragment / piece / (of a film) to break in the middle of viewing
periodization (of history)
lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another
dead-end road; (fig.) impasse
even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb)
homosexual / see 斷袖之癖|断袖之癖
to decide and act alone (idiom); to take arbitrary action / a law unto oneself
conclusion / judgment / verdict
to act arbitrarily / to make decisions without consulting others
to consider and decide
widowed / lit. broken string, cf 琴瑟 qin and se, two instruments epitomizing marital harmony
to cut off / to interrupt / to prevent access
sold out / to be out of stock
to make prompt decisions (idiom)
to forfeit (future profit, one's life etc) / ruined
lit. liver and guts cut to pieces (idiom) / fig. grief-stricken
to judge (i.e. to hear and pass judgment in a law court) / to hear and decide
arbitration (law)
lit. to feel as if one's intestines have been cut short / broken-hearted (idiom)
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
to assume / assumption
(dialect) to break (by twisting, bending, snapping etc)
to rip one's robe as a sign of repudiating a sworn brotherhood (idiom) / to break all friendly ties
a kite that is lost after its string breaks (metaphor for sb one never hears from anymore)
to pass judgment on a legal case
to chop off
stopping and starting / intermittent / sporadic / on and off
to jump to an unfounded conclusion
(idiom) to waver when decisiveness is needed
to assert / assertion
to cut / to snip
certainly
to split up / to break all ties
arms enough to stem the stream (idiom); formidable army
arbitrary
normal fault (geology)
to decide and act alone (idiom); to take arbitrary action / a law unto oneself
steep cliff / crag / precipice

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