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HSK
Shetland Islands
the design of a character (in games, manga etc) (abbr. for 人物設定|人物设定) / (fig.) (a celebrity or other public figure's) image in the eyes of the public / public persona
facilities / installation
HSK 4
public facilities; infrastructure
look / external appearance / design / overall brand look or logo that can be patented
to set up; to establish
HSK 3
military installations
to offer (goods or services) / to open (for business etc)
HSK 6
graphic design
industrial design
to construct / to erect
computer-aided design
to set up separately / to establish separate units
infrastructure
to install / to fit (e.g. a light bulb)
hypothetical
to think up every possible method (idiom); to devise ways and means / to try this, that and the other
HSK 7-9
to establish; to set up / to create (suitable conditions etc)
China Construction Bank
to display; to exhibit; to set out / furnishings
to install / to set up
to exist in name only / empty shell / useless (idiom)
too horrible to contemplate / unthinkable / inconceivable
interior design
to set up; to install
HSK 4
(of an organization) to have as a subunit
designer / architect
HSK 6
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  *设* | 设* | *设
to set up; to put in place / (math.) given; suppose; if
HSK 7-9
transmission facility / transmission equipment
equipment; facilities; installations / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
peripherals
to reset
to set out / to display / to furnish (a room or house)
ornament / decorative item / (fig.) sth that is merely for show
HSK 7-9
network equipment
to set / to set up / to install / setting / preferences
HSK 7-9
landscape design
(math.) postulate / public facilities (abbr. for 公共設施|公共设施)
(of an organization etc) standing or permanent
graduation project
web design
ad hoc / to set up specially
constructive / constructiveness
to host a banquet
China Communications Construction Company
tentative idea
to paint / to color
to establish a factory
to suppose / to presume / to assume / supposing that ... / if / hypothesis / conjecture
HSK 7-9
production facility
to design; to plan / design; plan
HSK 3
to set a limit; to impose a restriction
network design / network plan
design norm / planning regulations
audio equipment
to add to existing facilities or services
Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, also known as XPCC or Bingtuan ("the Corps"), a state-owned economic and paramilitary organization in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
to set up defenses / to fortify
sound equipment / stereo
design of a learning environment for young children, incorporating artwork designed to appeal to them (abbr. to 環創|环创)
CAD computer-aided design
to prepare an ambush / to waylay
(computing) factory settings
decorative items / ornaments
to set a trap
design process
to presuppose / to predispose / to preset / presupposition / predisposition / default (value etc)
to build; to construct; to establish; to develop; to institute
HSK 3
intelligent design (religion)
to imagine / to assume / to envisage / tentative plan / to have consideration for
HSK 5
to set up a vendor's stand
to try / to make an attempt / to think of a way (to accomplish sth)
HSK 7-9
(math.) the continuum hypothesis
gaming device / controller (for computer or console)
hairstylist
lit. made by Heaven and arranged by Earth(idiom) / ideal / perfect / (of a match) made in heaven / to be made for one another
to put oneself in sb else's shoes
to post a sentry
to lay (railroad tracks, carpet, pipeline) / to install (wiring, cable) / to construct (road, concrete slab)
PRC Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) (abbr. to 住建部)
universal hypothesis
if
first founded
subjunctive
living facilities
metacognition (Tw)
sanitary equipment
computer programming
to scam / to set a trap / to set up a scheme to defraud people
metadata (Tw)
mobile device (smartphone, tablet, etc)
(Tw) shared-facilities ratio (expressed as a percentage of the total floor space of a building)
nuclear facility / nuclear installation
(computing) infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
customer premise equipment / CPE
annexed to / attached to / associated
the parallel postulate (geometry) / Euclid's fifth postulate
to lay / to spread out
input device (computer)
null hypothesis (statistics)

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