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to promise / to undertake to do something / commitment
HSK 6
promise
HSK 7-9
El Niño, equatorial climate variation in the Pacific
Nobel (Prize)
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to consent / to promise / (literary) yes!
Novgorod, city in Russia
Nokia (company name)
Reynolds (name) / Renault (French car company) / Reno, Nevada
Illinois, US state
Hanover
Nottingham (city in England)
Normandy, France
Shimano (brand)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011
promise / pledge
cappuccino (loanword)
to promise / to consent (to do sth)
Chernobyl
Noah
Krasnodar (city in Russia)
Juneau, capital of Alaska / Juno, Roman goddess of marriage
snooker (loanword)
Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina
(idiom) to be a yes-man
San Marino
Krasnoyarsk
Quentin Tarantino (1963-), American film director
to agree (to do sth); to promise
Plotinus (204-270), Neoplatonism philosopher
a promise that can be realized
Grenoble (French town)
one command brings a hundred responses (idiom); having hundreds of attendants at one's beck and call
a promise worth one thousand in gold (idiom); a promise that must be kept
quinolone (a hydroxylated quinoline, inhibiting the replication of bacterial DNA)
Northrop Grumman (aerospace arm of Boeing)
old promise / long-standing commitment
Snow (name) / Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China
Noether (name) / Emmy Noether (1882-1935), German mathematician
Yanoda, a rainforest in southern Hainan
Nobel Prize / abbr. for 諾貝爾獎|诺贝尔奖
Neumann (surname) / John von Neumann (1903-1957), Hungarian-born American mathematician and polymath
Noam Chomsky (American linguist and political activist)
consent
Reynolds number (ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces in fluid mechanics)
Nobel Prize in Literature
Quentin Tarantino (1963-), American film director
Renoir (name) / Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), French impressionist painter
(loanword) domino
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
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer known for womanizing
Romano (name)
Brno, city in Czech Republic
Gounod (name) / Charles Gounod (1818-1893), French musician and opera composer
Normans (people)
Nobel Peace Prize
Illinois, US state
the Norman conquest of England (1066)
Jinuo ethnic group
Pinot noir (grape type)
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer
Cronus (Titan of Greek mythology)
Baruch or Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677), rationalist philosopher
cappuccino (loanword)
dominoes
Florentino Pérez (1947-), Spanish businessman and president of Real Madrid football club
San Marino (Tw)
Nottinghamshire (English county)
surname Adorno / Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno 狄奧多·阿多諾|狄奥多·阿多诺 (1903-1969), German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer
Illinois, US state
El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean
Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China
(name) Severino
Chicano; Chicana; Mexican American
old promises / unfulfilled promises
Stephanopoulos (e.g. former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos)
Edward Snowden (1983-), American surveillance program whistleblower
General Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006), Chilean dictator
Noah's ark
Knossos (Minoan palace at Iraklion, Crete)
Normandy, France
norovirus (Tw) (loanword)
Nobel Prize in Physics
János (Hungarian name)
luminol (chemistry) (loanword)
a promise worth one thousand in gold (idiom); a promise that must be kept
Illinois, US state
Uno (card game)
Kraskino town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, close to the North Korean border
cappuccino coffee
Oceanus, a Titan in Greek mythology
Quirinius, governor of Syria (c. 51 BC - AD 21)
Alexander Chayanov (1888-1937), Soviet agrarian economist
Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov (name) / Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Russian composer and pianist
Chuck Norris (1940-), American martial artist and actor
Sandinista National Liberation Front
Pinot gris (grape type) / Pinot grigio
Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969), German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer
Minoan (civilization on Crete)
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), famous Russian chemist and polymath
Lomonosov ridge (in the Artic Ocean)

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