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HSK
unceasing / uninterrupted / continuous / constant
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
to cut short / to break off / to discontinue / to interrupt
HSK 5
to judge / to determine / judgment
HSK 3
to diagnose
HSK 5
(idiom) in an unending stream; continuous
HSK 7-9
to interrupt / to break off / to break (a bone)
HSK 6
to cut off; to sever
HSK 7-9
(Tw) (computing) denial-of-service attack (DDOS)
fuse wire
arbitration (law)
dead-end road; (fig.) impasse
to conclude / to determine / to come to a judgment
HSK 7-9
to infer / to deduce / to predict / to extrapolate
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to make a clean break with; to have nothing more to do with
to act arbitrarily / to make decisions without consulting others
resolute / definitive / categorically / absolutely
to monopolize
HSK 7-9
periodization (of history)
fracture / rupture / to break apart
HSK 7-9
continuous / unceasing
to bring to a conclusion / to settle (a dispute) / to do away with (oneself) / to break off (a relationship) / resolution (of a problem)
fault (geology) (CL:) / (fig.) gap; rupture (in the transmission of some skill) / (tomography) cross-sectional
intermittent / off and on / discontinuous / stop-go / stammering / disjointed / inarticulate
HSK 7-9
fragment / piece / (of a film) to break in the middle of viewing
to forfeit (future profit, one's life etc) / ruined
to assert / assertion
lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another
arms enough to stem the stream (idiom); formidable army
to make a decision / resolution / decisiveness / resolute
section / fragment / segment
antitrust legislation
to examine
stopping and starting / intermittent / sporadic / on and off
to nip off (with fingernails etc) / (fig.) to cut off (supply etc) / to disconnect
the tiles are broken, the walls dilapidated
to sever; to break off
(of food) to be cooked just until no longer raw
disconnected / interrupted / suspended / a gap / a break
HSK 7-9
wise and resolute
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
to buy out / buyout / severance
rapid diagnostic test (RDT)
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 run out of (stock)
to break / to sever / to turn off (electric switch)
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
to assume / assumption
to stop breathing / to breathe one's last / to die / to cut the gas supply
to suffer serious injury (idiom)
(neologism c. 2012) decluttering; minimalism (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 断捨離 "danshari", lit. "forgoing, discarding and letting go")
broken leg
to experience a power outage; to have a power failure
(of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break / (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued / (telephone or Internet connection) disconnected / cut off
vertical section / longitudinal section
to take one's life
to consider and decide
designed to be torn off along a line of perforations
to quit (taking drugs, alcohol etc); withdrawal
to end a relationship / to break off diplomatic ties
to judge a case
bolt cutter
firm / decisive
HSK 7-9
to decide and act alone (idiom); to take arbitrary action / a law unto oneself
to infer / to judge / inference / judgment / conclusion
(idiom) in unbroken succession; continuous
The Broken Bridge (at West Lake in Hangzhou)
(idiom) to quote out of context
transform fault (geology)
to pass judgment on a legal case
arbitrary
to shut off
sold out / to be out of stock
to decide alone without consultation / arbitrary / dictatorial
to decide and act alone (idiom); to take arbitrary action / a law unto oneself
to make prompt decisions (idiom)
to break up or prevent monopolies / anti-monopoly; antitrust
to split up / to break all ties
to act on an opportunity (idiom); to take prompt advantage of a situation
to hang up (a phone)
even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb)
(fashion retailing) available only in a limited range of less popular sizes
computed tomography
steep cliff / crag / precipice
normal fault (geology)
to judge
to break (e.g. bones) in a fall
(zoology) (of a lizard etc) to shed its tail; to autotomize its tail / (animal husbandry) to cut the tail short; to dock the tail
geological fault line
widowed / lit. broken string, cf 琴瑟 qin and se, two instruments epitomizing marital harmony
circuit breaker
(coll.) to suffer an alcohol-induced blackout / to be unable to recall what one did while drunk
to jump to an unfounded conclusion
fault zone (geology)
to fast / hunger strike
not to delay making a decision when a decision is needed
to chop off
guillotine / scaffold
to make a decision when it's time to decide
pedestrian crossing

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