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HSK
to bring (people) closer together
ionization chamber
to digress; to stray from the subject
hydroxide ion OH-
to stand by (sb) (idiom) / steadfast loyalty
variegated
to be far from / to keep away from
HSK 6
joys and sorrows / partings and reunions / the vicissitudes of life
HSK 7-9
inseparable (as form and shadow)
HSK 7-9
to follow sb closely (idiom) / to keep close to
ionic bond (chemistry)
pretty close / very near / about right
many superficial changes but no departure from the original stand (idiom); plus ça change, plus ça reste la mème chose
odd; bizarre
HSK 7-9
to leave a country (or place)
to withdraw from / to evacuate
HSK 6
separated in life and death / to part for ever
social upheaval caused by war or famine etc
to divorce
HSK 3
(computing) offline
to collapse and fall apart (idiom); to break up / falling to pieces
loath to part (idiom); emotionally close and unwilling to separate
to separate
HSK 5
to leave (on a long journey) / to part from sb
to leave one's post
inseparable
hydroxide ion OH-
(computing) near-field communication (NFC)
separating medical consultation from dispensing drugs, proposed policy to counteract perceived PRC problem of "drugs serving to nourish doctors" 以藥養醫|以药养医
to depart from / to deviate from / deviation
to deviate / to diverge / to wander
asset stripping
lots of money, less work, and close to home / ideal job
inseparable / inevitably linked to
HSK 4
not bad / pretty good / pretty close
to remove / to step back from involvement / to disengage
to be weaned / weaning
discrete mathematics
inappropriate; improper; out of place
ion / ionized (e.g. gas)
monstrous and multicolored / grotesque and variegated
impossible to unravel / confusing
scattered and smashed (idiom)
positive ion / cation (physics)
to leave / to exit
to die / to leave this world
(neologism c. 2012) decluttering; minimalism (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 断捨離 "danshari", lit. "forgoing, discarding and letting go")
to be divorced
(chemistry) zwitterion
to peel / to strip / to peel off / to come off (of tissue, skin, covering etc)
distance / CL: 個|个 / to be apart from
HSK 4
long-distance
clutch (in car gearbox) / separation and reunion
On Encountering Sorrow, poem by Qu Yuan 屈原 in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞
transmission distance
zero distance / face-to-face
the appearance of unity, but divided at heart (idiom); seeming harmony belies underlying disagreement
to betray / to desert / to defect from / to turn renegade
to leave one's job temporarily (e.g. for study) / to leave one's job; to resign
HSK 7-9
carbon sequestration / carbon dioxide sequestration
destitute and homeless (idiom); forced from one's home and wandering about / displaced
pre-makeup cream / makeup base / foundation primer
to divorce
to sow dissension (idiom); to drive a wedge between
to be at odds with / centrifugal (force)
to be neither too familiar nor too distant / to keep sb at arm's length
offset distance
to separate oneself from / to break away from / diastasis (medicine) / abscission / abjunction (botany)
HSK 5
lit. seeming neither close nor distant (idiom) / fig. to keep one's distance / (of a relationship) lukewarm / vague
centrifuge
to depart; to leave
HSK 2
pretty close / just about right / not bad / same as 差不多
carbon sequestration
negative ion / anion (physics)
positive ion / cation (physics)
the appearance of unity, but divided at heart (idiom); seeming harmony belies underlying disagreement
free on board (FOB) (transportation)
centrifugal force
to steer (the plane) away from / to drive away (from a place) / to leave
to lure the tiger from its domain in the mountains (idiom) / to lure an enemy away from his territory
(idiom) blurred; confusing
long-distance
outlying islands
to drive away / to dispel
separatism
a family wrenched apart (idiom)
blurred / hard to make out distinctly
to leave office / to leave one's post
to leave the venue; (of an athlete) to leave the field; (of an investor) to exit the market; (of an aircraft) to depart
to leave one's homeplace (to find work, flee disaster etc)
lackluster (look)
lit. people rebelling and friends deserting (idiom) / fig. to find oneself utterly isolated
automatic clutch
absence makes the heart grow fonder
separable word (in Chinese grammar)
to desert / to leave / to forsake
to abscond / to be absent without leave
homeless and miserable / forced to leave home and wander from place to place / to live as a refugee
to escape from the abyss of suffering / to shed off a wretched plight
to move away / to change residence

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