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easel painting
cross / crucifix / yoke one has to endure
to quarrel / to have a row / quarrel / CL: 頓|顿
HSK 3
overhead / elevated (walkway, highway etc) / elevated road
tripod / derrick crane
to fight / to scuffle / to come to blows / CL: 場|场
HSK 5
to construct / to erect
to put goods on shelves / (of a product) to be available for sale
bookshelf / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
attitude / position (on an issue etc)
HSK 7-9
(dialect) to come to blows / to have a row
to build (a hut etc) on stilts / to install (power lines etc) overhead / (fig.) unfounded; impractical / (fig.) to make sb a mere figurehead
to fall apart / exhaustion
drum kit
to take down from the shelves (e.g. a contaminated product)
shelf / frame / stand / framework / airs / arrogance
HSK 7-9
scaffolding
cytoskeleton (of a cell)
cart / barrow / frame / chassis
structure
two-wheeled handcart
to scuffle / to come to blows
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to support / frame / rack / framework / classifier for planes, large vehicles, radios etc
HSK 3
(construction) frame / (fig.) framework
HSK 7-9
grill (of a cooker etc)
Snickers (candy bar)
(computing) architect
bipod (supporting a machine gun etc)
lit. to drive a duck onto a perch (idiom) / fig. to push sb to do sth way beyond their ability
trestle; support; stand; frame / (medicine) stent / to prop up / to resist; to withstand (an enemy attack etc)
to construct; to build / structure; framework; architecture
putting on official airs
sortie / flight
to hustle sb away
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
open shelves (in self-service store or user access library)
picture frame
(coll.) unable to withstand / cannot bear / can't stand it / no match for
ledge
to stick one leg over the other (when sitting)
skeleton / skinny person / a mere skeleton
continental shelf
to assume a fighting stance / (fig.) to take the offensive
(aviation) landing gear; undercarriage
lit. to arrange a shelf of flowers / superficial display (idiom)
bracket
alternate history; counterfactual history (genre of fiction)
stretcher / litter / bier
to mediate in a quarrel / to intervene in a dispute and try to calm things down
to collapse / to come to grief
stretcher
a coordinate frame
(dialect) height of a house
a sawhorse
a sawframe
(of dogs, roosters etc) to fight; to tussle / (of people) to have an altercation with sb (physical or verbal)
roof beam / rafters
to kidnap / to abduct / to hijack / a kidnapping / abduction / staking
HSK 7-9
crucifiction
a building / the frame of a building / roof beam / truss
stove stand; grate (supporting a pot over the stove) / grate (in a fireplace) / oven rack
truss (weight-bearing construction of cross-beams)
gallows / gibbet
music stand
elevated road
rigid frame
bipod (supporting a machine gun etc)
framework / skeleton
luggage carrier (bicycle)
to throw one's weight around / to put on airs
stretcher bearer (military)
Shennongjialin, directly administered forestry reserve in east Hubei
clothes hanger / clothes rack
HSK 3
bracket
a quarrel in which third parties get involved
high trestle bridge / viaduct / flyover
dish rack
attractive appearance, but without substance
feeder pig
shelf for goods / shop shelf
hurdle
easel
luggage rack
eyeglasses frame / CL: / mirror support
trestle / X-shaped frame
trellis latticework
to use a crutch
to resist; to ward off; to hold one's own
inkstand
to try to stop a fight / to intervene in a fight
to put on airs / to assume great airs
to coerce by invoking moral obligations (duty, sacrifice, reciprocation etc); to lay a guilt trip on sb
aerial ropeway / cable car
Shennongjialin, directly administered forestry reserve in east Hubei
tripod; stand
stinking pretension / to give oneself airs and offend others / hateful arrogance
height restriction barrier
to put up scaffolding / to build a framework / to launch an enterprise
to bridge / to put up a bridge
group scuffle / gang fight

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