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HSK
to be responsible for; to be in charge of; to bear responsibility for / conscientious
HSK 3
to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc) / burden
HSK 4
victory or defeat / the outcome of a battle
HSK 5
person in charge
HSK 5
to bully
HSK 6
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to bear / to carry (on one's back) / to turn one's back on / to be defeated / negative (math. etc)
HSK 6
negative / the negative side
HSK 7-9
aspiration / ambition
HSK 7-9
conceited / to take responsibility
HSK 7-9
to fail to live up (to expectations) / unworthy (of trust) / to let down / to betray (hopes) / to disappoint
HSK 7-9
to shoulder / to bear / to undertake
HSK 7-9
to shoulder (a burden) / to bear / to suffer (a disadvantage)
HSK 7-9
to be responsible for
HSK 7-9
responsible for its profit and losses (of organization) / financially autonomous / personal financial responsibility
to be in debt / to incur debts / liability (finance)
negative ion / anion (physics)
(lit. and fig.) to carry a heavy load / to carry a heavy burden
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to take responsibility / to bear responsibility / to be responsible
balance sheet
positive and negative
to bear / to carry on one's back / to shoulder
negative number
load / burden / charge
current liability
to forget favors and violate justice (idiom); ingratitude to a friend / to kick a benefactor in the teeth
heavy load / heavy burden (also fig. of tax)
to live up to
to endure humiliation as part of an important mission (idiom); to suffer in silence
(literary) to leave home to pursue studies in (a distant place)
deep in debt
lit. to bring a bramble and ask for punishment (idiom) / fig. to offer sb a humble apology
seasoned / honed to perfection over centuries / special reserve
unable to determine victory or defeat (idiom); evenly matched / to come out even / to tie / to draw
negative value sign - (math.) / minus sign
in a pique / sulky / cross
Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually.
traitor to one's love / heartless rat
(literary) to feel apologetic / to feel guilty
(idiom) to put up fierce resistance despite being surrounded; to stubbornly refuse to admit defeat
negative (in photography)
deficient / to let sb down / to cause sb suffering
negative electric charge
to live up to expectations (idiom)
debtor (jocular term, homonymous with 富翁)
as if relieved from a burden (idiom) / to have a weight off one's mind
negative pole / cathode
suction / negative pressure
variant of 辜負|辜负
tax burden
lit. to wear one's coat inside out and carry firewood on one's back (idiom) / fig. to live a life of poverty and hard work / fig. to act stupidly
to disobey one's benefactor / to violate debts of gratitude / to repay good with evil
negative value (math.)
negative growth / economic recession
opossum (zoo.)
negative energy / negativity
negative feedback
the losing side
responsible for its profit and losses (of organization) / financially autonomous / personal financial responsibility
to alleviate a burden on sb
negative integer
basement level 1; floor B1
cannot afford / cannot bear the burden
plus or minus sign ± (math.)
to admit defeat
seriously injured
to take responsibility for the consequences of risky behavior; to have only oneself to blame if things go badly
(architecture) basement level 1; floor B1
at fault / blamed for / responsible (for a blunder or crime)
negative correlation
to feel powerless and full of shame (idiom)
payload
electrons and positrons
to determine success or failure
left panel (displayed by swiping right from the main panel of the home screen)
to be wounded / to sustain an injury
to degrade the performance of a sold product via a system update
negative score / minus (in grades, such as A-)
negative (response, emotion etc)
negative influence, effect that people's doings or behavior have on others (society)
ungrateful / heartless / to fail to be loyal to one's love
bearer
to implicate / to involve
burden
to carry / to support / load
(computing) load balancing
weight training
excess load / an overload / overloaded
communications load
electronegativity
a nonnegative number (i.e. positive or zero)
debt as heavy as a mountain on a turtle's back


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