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HSK
facilities / installation
HSK 4
measure / step / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to implement / to carry out
HSK 4
to pressure
HSK 7-9
nothing can be done (about it)
safety measure; precaution / (coll.) (euphemism) contraception; protection
to put in place / to put into practice / to take effect
HSK 7-9
to exert (effort or pressure)
HSK 7-9
kind and charitable
John the Baptist
to put into practice / to carry out (idiom)
public facilities; infrastructure
to employ both kindness and severity (idiom)
military installations
infrastructure
construction / to carry out construction or large-scale repairs
HSK 7-9
Oxfam (Oxford Committee for Famine Relief)
to fire / to discharge / to release (fireworks, smokescreen, poison gas, virus etc)
administration
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011
to apply fertilizer
(idiom) to teach in accordance with the student's aptitude; to tailor instruction to the individual student
Xishi (c. 450 BC), famous Chinese beauty, foremost of the four legendary beauties 四大美女, given by King Gou Jian 勾踐|勾践 of Yue as concubine to King of Wu as part of a successful plan to destroy Wu
to inflict (punishment) / to provide (training etc) / to apply (pressure etc)
administrative report
lit. in the eyes of a lover appears 西施 (idiom); fig. beauty is in the eye of the beholder
to apply a treatment; to undertake a therapy
What you don't want done to you, don't do to others. (idiom, from the Confucian analects) / Do as you would be done by. / Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
affirmative action
Schwab (name)
abuser / (in sadomasochism) dominant partner
baptize
Strauss (name) / Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer / Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer
Shi Lang (1621–1696), Chinese admiral who served under the Ming and Qing dynasties
Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in Hubei Province 湖北省
to torment; to abuse (an animal, child etc)
to use violence; to attack; to assault
production facility
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surname Shi
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(bound form) to put into effect (regulations etc) / to distribute (alms etc) / to apply (fertilizer etc)
sado-masochism
Enshi, a county-level city in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州, Hubei
to give charity to sb / to oblige
to inject (a vaccine etc)
to implement the law / to perform sorcery
Shi Nai'an (1296-1371), author of Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh 水滸傳|水浒传
use both carrot and stick / use gentle methods and force / an iron hand in a velvet glove
to implement / to use
(patent) implementation; embodiment
In the eyes of the lover, a famous beauty (idiom). Beauty in the eye of the beholder
Shibing, a county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture 黔東南苗族侗族自治州|黔东南苗族侗族自治州, Guizhou
to provide alms and rice (idiom)
sadism (fetish)
unit in charge of construction / builder
to give in charity / to give alms (to the poor)
lit. Dong Shi imitates Xi Shi's frown (idiom) / fig. to mimick sb's idiosyncrasies but make a fool of oneself
Shidian county in Baoshan 保山, Yunnan
diagnosis and treatment based on an overall analysis of the illness and the patient's condition
to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things
to confer a favor on sb / to confer a benefit
Shih Ming-teh (1941–2024), Taiwanese politician, imprisoned 1962–1977 and 1980–1990 under the Guomindang, subsequently a leader of DPP 民進黨|民进党, in 2006 led protests against Chen Shui-Bian 陳水扁|陈水扁
to salute / to greet
to rescue; to render emergency aid
Dana (Buddhist practice of giving)
Enshi county in southwest Hubei
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
to boss people around (idiom)
(Tw) betel nut beauty: a skimpily-dressed, attractive girl who sells betel nut from a glass-walled roadside booth
lit. to have no strategy to apply (idiom) / fig. to be out of ideas; at one's wit's end
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011 / also written 阿諾德·施瓦辛格|阿诺德·施瓦辛格
to give food (as a charity) / "feeding the hungry ghosts" (Buddhist ceremony)
Maharashtra (state in India)
using several (methods)
Shidian county in Baoshan 保山, Yunnan
benefactor (term used by a monk to address a layperson) / donor (semiconductor)
John the Baptist
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011
living facilities
protective step / protective measure
to use fully / to put to use
Schmidt or Schmitt (surname)
Xerox
teaching
to put into effect (idiom)
nuclear facility / nuclear installation
(computing) infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
(linguistics) agent; doer
shih tzu (dog breed)
(name) Schröder / Gerhard Schröder (1944–), German SPD politician, Chancellor 1998–2005
Swarovski crystal
Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17 astronaut)
(linguistics) agent; doer
to donate / to give / to grant / to distribute / to administer
Gustav Stresemann (Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic)
to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things
Hui Shi, also known as Hui-zi 惠子(c. 370-310 BC), politician and philosopher of the School of Logicians 名家 during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
Styria (Steiermark), province of Austria

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