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to promise / to undertake to do something / commitment
HSK 6
promise
HSK 7-9
cappuccino (loanword)
Sandinista National Liberation Front
Norfolk Island
(meteorology) El Niño
Nobel (Prize)
Nobel Prize
to agree (to do sth); to promise
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to consent / to promise / (literary) yes!
norovirus (loanword)
Reynolds (name) / Renault (French car company) / Reno, Nevada
a promise that can be realized
Novgorod, city in Russia
Baruch or Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677), rationalist philosopher
Illinois, US state
consent
Nottingham (city in England)
Normandy, France
Shimano (brand)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011
promise / pledge
Hanover
to promise / to consent (to do sth)
Chernobyl
Pinot gris (grape type) / Pinot grigio
Ray Romano (1957-), US actor and comedian
Noah
Krasnodar (city in Russia)
Juneau, capital of Alaska / Juno, Roman goddess of marriage
(loanword) snooker
Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina
(idiom) to be a yes-man
San Marino
Quentin Tarantino (1963-), American film director
Plotinus (204-270), Neoplatonism philosopher
Norman (people)
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
Noah's ark
Nokia (company name)
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
Oceanus, a Titan in Greek mythology
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)
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
Pinot noir (grape type)
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)
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
(pharmacology) minoxidil
Normandy, France
norovirus (Tw) (loanword)
Nobel Prize in Physics
János (Hungarian name)
lit. a promise worth a thousand pieces of gold (idiom) / fig. a promise that can be counted on
Illinois, US state
Uno (card game)
Krasnoyarsk
Kraskino town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, close to the North Korean border
cappuccino coffee
Quirinius, governor of Syria (c. 51 BC - AD 21)
Alexander Chayanov (1888-1937), Soviet agrarian economist

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