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to go to work / to be on duty / to start work / to go to the office
HSK 1
to start and finish work
office workers (as social group)
the whole class
to be off duty
to work a shift / on duty
HSK 5
to group students into classes / to divide people (staff members etc) into groups
to finish work; to get off work / next service (train, bus etc)
HSK 1
Panchen Erdeni or Panchen Lama / abbr. to 班禪|班禅
Durban (city in South Africa)
working hours; office hours
overtime pay
to work overtime
HSK 4
tai-pan / business executive / foreign business manager / top class of kindergarten or school grade
three-shift system (work rostering)
to change shift
intensive course / crash course
(sports, esp. soccer) newly promoted team (one that has advanced from a lower league to a higher league)
Spain
preschool
Spanish language
HSK 6
middle shift; swing shift; early night shift / middle class in kindergarten (4–5 year olds)
short training course
to divide people into groups, teams, squads etc
(Tw) to take over sb's job; to substitute for
classmate
Spaniard / Spanish person
night shift
HSK 7-9
to be in the same class / to be in the same squad / classmate
to hand over to the next workshift
teacher in charge of a class
grade / class number (in school) / flight or run number / flight or run (seen as an item) / shift (work period)
day shift
cram class / cram school / evening classes
class (group of students) / grade (in school)
HSK 3
small, poorly-equipped theatrical troupe that tours small towns and villages / (fig.) makeshift band of individuals / rough and ready outfit
to take over (from those working the previous shift) / to take over (in a leadership role etc) / to succeed sb
HSK 7-9
the Taliban, Islamist organization that emerged in the mid-1990s in Afghanistan
attendant / footman (servant)
advanced stream (in school) / express (train, bus etc)
(theater) (originally) non-leading actors; supporting cast; (now) key members of a production team (actors, directors, writers etc) / (by extension) key members of a group or organization
early shift; morning work shift
(loanword) banjo
to sign up for a class
Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry
training class
HSK 4
class meeting (in schools)
tutorial class / remedial class / preparatory course
to check on sb at his workplace / to come to a movie set to visit one of the actors
successor
HSK 7-9
to change shifts / to work in turns
night shift
the prettiest girl in the class
to change shift / the next work shift / to relieve (a workman on the previous shift) / to take over the job
original cast / former team
office desk
Banda Aceh, capital of Aceh province of Indonesia in northwest Sumatra
Panchen Lama
(Tw) class representative / class president
to arrange (shifts, runs, classes etc) in order
preschool group for kids aged three or less / (Tw) work shift starting around daybreak
behind schedule / late
(Tw) class composed of gifted students
(scheduled) flight; (scheduled) sailing
HSK 4
to act as substitute / to fill in for sb
organized group / theatrical troupe
seniority in the family / pecking order
Port-of-Spain, capital of Trinidad and Tobago
to take over sb else's job / to substitute for
airliner / (regular) flight (CL:,,)
Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Australia
to join a class partway through the course
instructional workshop
(in the) class
Ban Chao (33-102), noted Han diplomat and military man
to work office hours / on duty
Ban Gu (32-92), Eastern Han dynasty historian, wrote the Dynastic History of Western Han 漢書|汉书
choir
graveyard shift; late night shift
to skip work / to sneak out of work early
(old) school for Chinese opera / formal professional education or training
leader of a theatrical troupe
the most handsome boy in the class
(Tw) grouping of students into classes of mixed ability
Banksy (British street artist)
(Tw) teacher in charge of a class / homeroom teacher
to work one's shift
after-school program (Tw)
group or team (in factories etc)
Banda Sea, in the East Indian Archipelago
seminar / workshop
to display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom)
Benjamin (name)
after-school program
last bus or train / last chance
Binche (Belgian city)
Banks (surname) / Banksy (UK artist)
Banjul, capital of Gambia
Spanish (language)

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