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HSK
to implement / to carry out
HSK 4
measure / step / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
facilities / installation
HSK 4
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
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 employ both kindness and severity (idiom)
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.
lit. to have no strategy to apply (idiom) / fig. to be out of ideas; at one's wit's end
to pressure
HSK 7-9
John the Baptist
construction / to carry out construction or large-scale repairs
HSK 7-9
In the eyes of the lover, a famous beauty (idiom). Beauty in the eye of the beholder
use both carrot and stick / use gentle methods and force / an iron hand in a velvet glove
lit. in the eyes of a lover appears 西施 (idiom); fig. beauty is in the eye of the beholder
infrastructure
to fire / to discharge / to release (fireworks, smokescreen, poison gas, virus etc)
administration
to apply fertilizer
(idiom) to teach in accordance with the student's aptitude; to tailor instruction to the individual student
kind and charitable
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)
Oxfam (Oxford Committee for Famine Relief)
(Tw) betel nut beauty: a skimpily-dressed, attractive girl who sells betel nut from a glass-walled roadside booth
to apply a treatment; to undertake a therapy
military installations
Xerox
Schwab (name)
abuser / (in sadomasochism) dominant partner
baptize
Shi Lang (1621–1696), Chinese admiral who served under the Ming and Qing dynasties
nuclear facility / nuclear installation
administrative report
Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in Hubei Province 湖北省
Strauss (name) / Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer / Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer
to torment; to abuse (an animal, child etc)
to use violence; to attack; to assault
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(bound form) to put into effect (regulations etc) / to distribute (alms etc) / to apply (fertilizer etc)
sado-masochism
living facilities
nothing can be done (about it)
Enshi, a county-level city in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州, Hubei
unit in charge of construction / builder
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
protective step / protective measure
to implement / to use
public facilities; infrastructure
sadism (fetish)
to put into practice / to carry out (idiom)
to boss people around (idiom)
to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things
donor level (semiconductor)
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 rescue; to render emergency aid
(computing) infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
Dana (Buddhist practice of giving)
(patent) implementation; embodiment
to donate / to give / to grant / to distribute / to administer
to give food (as a charity) / "feeding the hungry ghosts" (Buddhist ceremony)
production facility
using several (methods)
Styria (Steiermark), province of Austria
Shidian county in Baoshan 保山, Yunnan
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
benefactor (term used by a monk to address a layperson) / donor (semiconductor)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011
digital navigation equipment
to use fully / to put to use
John the Baptist
affirmative action
Schmidt or Schmitt (surname)
Swarovski crystal
Maharashtra (state in India)
teaching
to salute / to greet
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
Gustav Stresemann (Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic)
to provide alms and rice (idiom)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011
(linguistics) agent; doer
shih tzu (dog breed)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
to put into effect (idiom)
diagnosis and treatment based on an overall analysis of the illness and the patient's condition
to give in charity / to give alms (to the poor)
Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17 astronaut)
(linguistics) agent; doer
(name) Schröder / Gerhard Schröder (1944–), German SPD politician, Chancellor 1998–2005
Enshi county in southwest Hubei

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