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HSK
to work / (of a machine) to operate / job / work / task / CL: 個|个, , 項|项
HSK 1
movement; motion; action (CL:個|个) / to act; to move
HSK 1
author / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
to write an essay / composition (student essay) / CL:
HSK 2
school assignment / homework / work / task / operation / CL: 個|个 / to operate
HSK 2
to act on; to affect / action; function; activity / impact; result; effect / purpose; intent / (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 抑制作用, inhibition
HSK 2
to call / to be called
HSK 2
to make; to manufacture
HSK 3
author; writer
HSK 3
work (of art) / opus / CL: ,
HSK 3
to create; to produce; to write / a creative work; a creation
HSK 3
to write / to compose / writing / written works
HSK 3
to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together
HSK 3
one's conduct / deed / activity / accomplishment / achievement / to act as / as (in the capacity of) / qua / to view as / to look upon (sth as) / to take sth to be
HSK 4
to work / to operate / to manipulate
HSK 4
to write / literary work / book / article / writings / CL:
HSK 4
to put out / to come up with / to make (a choice, decision, proposal, response, comment etc) / to issue (a permit, statement, explanation, apology, reassurance to the public etc) / to draw (conclusion) / to deliver (speech, judgment) / to devise (explanation) / to extract
HSK 4
workday / working day / weekday
HSK 5
to operate / operations / workings / activities (usu. of an organization) / thread (computing)
HSK 6
combat / to fight
HSK 6
to treat as / to regard as
HSK 6
to hype / to promote (in the media)
HSK 6
to look upon as / to regard as
HSK 6
to become invalid / to cancel / to delete / to nullify
HSK 6
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to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works
HSK 6
workload; volume of work
HSK 7-9
side effect
HSK 7-9
one's conduct and deeds
HSK 7-9
to practice fraud / to cheat / to engage in corrupt practices
HSK 7-9
to flare up; to break out
HSK 7-9
cooperation / coordination
HSK 7-9
to set oneself against / to oppose / to make a pair
HSK 7-9
style / style of work / way
HSK 7-9
to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model
HSK 7-9
(farm) crops
HSK 7-9
to live somewhere as a visitor; to stay with sb as a guest; to sojourn
HSK 7-9
in a spurt of energy
HSK 7-9
to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
HSK 7-9
not to shrink from any crime (idiom); to commit any imaginable misdeed
HSK 7-9
crop
HSK 7-9
cooperative / workers' or agricultural producers' cooperative etc
HSK 7-9
to bestir oneself / to pull oneself together / to cheer up / to uplift / to stimulate
HSK 7-9
attempting nothing and accomplishing nothing (idiom); without any initiative or drive / feckless
HSK 7-9
to be called; to be known as
HSK 7-9
masterpiece / famous work
worker
first publication; maiden work
social work
to answer / to respond
taskbar (computing) (Tw)
to ache
to make merry
to sin
course of action / method of doing sth / practice / modus operandi
to break the law and commit crimes (idiom); malefactor / evildoer / to perpetrate outrages
operating system (Tw)
studio / workshop
(computer) workstation
to play deaf-mute
to have an effect / to play a role / to be operative / to work / to function
to work and rest
copyright
practical joke / prank / to play a practical joke
to be in charge in one's own house (idiom) / to be the master of one's own affairs
to act as surety for sb / to be sb's guarantor / to stand bail for sb
representative work (of an author or artist)
original works / original text / original author
workflow
(entertainment industry) producer
masterpiece / fine piece of writing
your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific) / to erupt / to begin abruptly
to paint
composer / songwriter
operator (of a machine etc); factory worker
(physics) action force
worksheet
bad habit (e.g. nose-picking) / petty maneuver / dirty trick / gamesmanship
literary work / art work
nonfeasance / omission (law)
cash crop (economics)
to pretend / to feign / to act a part
work clothes
(writing, drawing, calligraphy etc) to apply oneself to producing practice pieces / a practice piece; an exercise
haunted / to haunt / to cause mischief
to serve as / to be a substitute for
to compose (music)
can be used for
operating system
workflow
work / manual labor
to drop (subject etc)
(idiom) to put on an act; to show affectation; to indulge in histrionics
to make love
to bear witness; to testify / to serve as evidence
to court disaster / also pr. [zuo1si3]
routine
to keep silent
to adopt an attitude / to strike a posture
(cinema) slow motion
to work high above the ground

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