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HSK
facilities / installation
HSK 4
to implement / to carry out
HSK 4
measure / step / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to put in place / to put into practice / to take effect
HSK 7-9
to exert (effort or pressure)
HSK 7-9
construction / to carry out construction or large-scale repairs
HSK 7-9
to pressure
HSK 7-9
Xerox
to fire / to discharge / to release (fireworks, smokescreen, poison gas, virus etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *施* | 施* | *施
surname Shi
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *施* | 施* | *施
(bound form) to put into effect (regulations etc) / to distribute (alms etc) / to apply (fertilizer etc)
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)
Shidian county in Baoshan 保山, Yunnan
to implement the law / to perform sorcery
Enshi prefecture-level city in Hubei, capital of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州
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
infrastructure
public facilities; infrastructure
to use fully / to put to use
administration
to spread manure / to apply fertilizer
benefactor (term used by a monk to address a layperson) / donor (semiconductor)
(name) Schröder / Gerhard Schröder (1944–), German SPD politician, Chancellor 1998–2005
Strauss (name) / Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer / Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer
to boss people around (idiom)
to torment; to abuse (an animal, child etc)
Schmidt or Schmitt (surname)
military installations
to donate / to give / to grant / to distribute / to administer
kind and charitable
use both carrot and stick / use gentle methods and force / an iron hand in a velvet glove
teaching
no strategy left to try (idiom); at one's wit's end / at the end of one's tether / powerless
unit in charge of construction / builder
(idiom) to teach in accordance with the student's aptitude; to tailor instruction to the individual student
lit. in the eyes of a lover appears 西施 (idiom); fig. beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Schwab (name)
safety measure; precaution / (coll.) (euphemism) contraception; protection
to give in charity / to give alms (to the poor)
Shibing county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州, Guizhou
to put into practice / to carry out (idiom)
to give food (as a charity) / "feeding the hungry ghosts" (Buddhist ceremony)
to confer a favor on sb / to confer a benefit
to give charity to sb / to oblige
Dana (Buddhist practice of giving)
to implement / to use
to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things
Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17 astronaut)
to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things
Shibing county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州, Guizhou
Shidian county in Baoshan 保山, Yunnan
(linguistics) agent; doer
to use violence; to attack; to assault
to apply a treatment; to undertake a therapy
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011
Shi Lang (1621–1696), Chinese admiral who served under the Ming and Qing dynasties
Gustav Stresemann (Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic)
administrative report
protective step / protective measure
using several (methods)
shih tzu (dog breed)
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
(Tw) betel nut beauty: a skimpily-dressed, attractive girl who sells betel nut from a glass-walled roadside booth
Maharashtra (state in India)
to adopt measures / to take steps
baptize
Swarovski crystal
emergency measure
Oxfam (Oxford Committee for Famine Relief)
affirmative action
Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in Hubei Province 湖北省
to inflict (punishment) / to provide (training etc) / to apply (pressure etc)
Shi Nai'an (1296-1371), author of Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh 水滸傳|水浒传
nuclear facility / nuclear installation
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
(computing) infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
(patent) implementation; embodiment
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.
to employ both kindness and severity (idiom)
Enshi county in southwest Hubei
In the eyes of the lover, a famous beauty (idiom). Beauty in the eye of the beholder
digital navigation equipment
donor level (semiconductor)
variant of 施與|施与
(linguistics) agent; doer
to inject (a vaccine etc)
Styria (Steiermark), province of Austria
John the Baptist
John the Baptist
to salute / to greet
to provide alms and rice (idiom)
sado-masochism
sadism (psychiatry)
sadism (fetish)
abuser / (in sadomasochism) dominant partner
effective action
lit. Dong Shi imitates Xi Shi's frown (idiom) / fig. to mimick sb's idiosyncrasies but make a fool of oneself
living facilities

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