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to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement
HSK 3
to withdraw / to abort / to quit / to log out (computing)
HSK 3
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to retreat; to withdraw / to reject; to return (sth) / to decline
HSK 3
to refund / refund
to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat
HSK 7-9
to retreat / to shrink back
HSK 7-9
retirement pension; pension payments received after retirement
HSK 7-9
to return (an item) / to send back / to go back
HSK 7-9
(of military personnel or athletes) to retire / (of outdated equipment) to be decommissioned
HSK 7-9
to wane / to vanish gradually
to escape unscathed; to get through in one piece
to fall back / to go in reverse
to guarantee refund or replacement (of faulty or unsatisfactory goods)
to retreat
to shrink back; to cower
HSK 7-9
to move aside / to get out of the way / to back down / to concede
HSK 7-9
to advance or retreat, each has its rules (idiom from Zhuangzi); many translations are possible
study is like rowing upstream – if you don't keep pushing forward, you fall behind
to leave a place where some event is taking place / (of an actor) to exit / (sports) to leave the field / (of an audience) to leave
to degenerate / atrophy
to beat back / to repel
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
(of an app) to crash
to quit school
HSK 7-9
to eject (media player)
to beat back / to repel / to repulse
to thaw (frozen food) / to bring to room temperature
can't advance or retreat (idiom); no room for maneuver / stalled / in a dilemma / stuck in a difficult position
withdrawal from the Communist Party, the Communist Youth League, and the Young Pioneers of China
recession (in economics)
(intransitive) to weaken; to decrease; (of a subsidy etc) to be rolled back
shut-out, container or consigment not carried on the intended vessel or aircraft
tax rebate or refund
to break off an engagement
to decline / to fall / to drop / to falter / a decline / recession (in economics)
HSK 7-9
better to go home and weave a net than to stand by the pond longing for fish (idiom) / one should take practical steps to achieve one's aim
to withdraw to the second line of duty / to resign from a leading post (and assume an advisory post)
like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back (idiom)
to bounce (a check) / to return a ticket / ticket refund
HSK 6
to withdraw
(after a sum has been paid in advance) to refund (in case of overpayment) or be reimbursed (in case of underpayment)
to withdraw from an election / to drop out of an elective course
to refund money
free to come and go (idiom) / to have room to maneuver
(economic) recession
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
to revert (computing) / to return (a package or letter) to the sender
to dismiss / to discharge / to fire
HSK 7-9
to retire from office / to resign
fast-rewind (media player)
Retreat and Reflection Garden in Tongli, Jiangsu
to reduce a fever
to settle for second best / the next best thing
degenerative / retrograde
to leave the hospital / (old) (of a monk) to leave the monastery
to stop leasing
lit. to retreat ninety li (idiom) / fig. to shun; to assiduously avoid
antipyretic (drug to reduce fever, such as sulfanilamide)
restoring agricultural land to forest
to try to persuade sb to give up (their job, plans etc)
annealing (metallurgy)
to drive back (attackers)
to advance or retreat / knowing when to come and when to leave / a sense of propriety
to dismiss (from a post) / to expel from school / to order away (servants etc)
to abdicate
(of a public figure, streamer, influencer etc) to quit social media
to retreat in defeat
to retire from the courtroom / to adjourn
to return a product for another item
to reduce a fever
to retire / to leave one's position
to cancel (a booking) / to unsubscribe (from a newsletter etc)
lit. to beat the return drum (idiom) / fig. to give up / to turn tail
to leave early (before the stipulated finishing time) / to retire early (from one's job)
(neologism c. 2007) (of an official) to retire completely from all leadership positions
to withdraw from a group
to send away / to dismiss (servants etc) / to retire from public life
to demote / to dismiss
lit. to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom) / fig. to back out of an awkward situation; to get out on finding out what it's really like
to shrink back as the time for battle approaches (idiom) / to get cold feet
to return (sth borrowed etc); to send back; to refund; to rebate
to reject (visa application etc) / (commerce) to return to sender / item returned to sender
to divert water / to drain
to retire (from society, esp. from politics) / to vanish
to petition for retirement (old) / to ask for leave to withdraw / to ask to be excused
without a retreat route / caught in a dead end / having burned one's bridges
to decommission
to check out of a hotel room
to recede / to degenerate / to regress
to have no alternative (idiom)
to leave in the middle of the play / (fig.) to leave before the matter is concluded
to be discharged from military service
to lapse (or terminate) an insurance
to be delisted (of a listed stock) / to exit the market
a way out / a way to retreat / leeway
to withdraw from a political party
contented / uninterested in wealth and glory
(of a tide) to ebb or go out
to guarantee refund (for faulty or unsatisfactory goods)

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