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HSK
to design; to plan / design; plan
HSK 3
to set up; to establish
HSK 3
to build; to construct; to establish; to develop; to institute
HSK 3
equipment; facilities; installations / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
facilities / installation
HSK 4
to set up; to install
HSK 4
to imagine / to assume / to envisage / tentative plan / to have consideration for
HSK 5
designer / architect
HSK 6
to offer (goods or services) / to open (for business etc)
HSK 6
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to set up; to put in place / (math.) given; suppose; if
HSK 7-9
to try / to make an attempt / to think of a way (to accomplish sth)
HSK 7-9
to set / to set up / to install / setting / preferences
HSK 7-9
to suppose / to presume / to assume / supposing that ... / if / hypothesis / conjecture
HSK 7-9
ornament / decorative item / (fig.) sth that is merely for show
HSK 7-9
to think up every possible method (idiom); to devise ways and means / to try this, that and the other
HSK 7-9
interior design
annexed to / attached to / associated
to have; to incorporate; to feature
to add to existing facilities or services
to host a banquet
to presuppose / to predispose / to preset / presupposition / predisposition / default (value etc)
public facilities; infrastructure
to set out / to display / to furnish (a room or house)
industrial design
to install / to fit (e.g. a light bulb)
to lay (railroad tracks, carpet, pipeline) / to install (wiring, cable) / to construct (road, concrete slab)
(math.) postulate / public facilities (abbr. for 公共設施|公共设施)
to construct / to erect
constructive / constructiveness
to display / to set out / furnishings
too horrible to contemplate / unthinkable / inconceivable
to put oneself in sb else's shoes
computer-aided design
lit. made by Heaven and arranged by Earth(idiom) / ideal / perfect / (of a match) made in heaven / to be made for one another
to set up defenses / to fortify
to set a trap
military installations
computer programming
to prepare an ambush / to waylay
CAD computer-aided design
if
to set up separately / to establish separate units
to install / to set up
to paint / to color
to establish; to set up / to create (suitable conditions etc)
if
to post a sentry
ad hoc / to set up specially
sanitary equipment
(of an organization etc) standing or permanent
computer-aided design and drawing
to install (water pipes, landmines etc) underground
decorative items / ornaments
to lay / to spread out
China Communications Construction Company
web design
the design of a character (in games, manga etc) (abbr. for 人物設定|人物设定) / (fig.) (a celebrity or other public figure's) image in the eyes of the public / public persona
designer / architect (of a project)
to reset
look / external appearance / design / overall brand look or logo that can be patented
infrastructure
sound equipment / stereo
subjunctive
graphic design
(Tw) shared-facilities ratio (expressed as a percentage of the total floor space of a building)
China Construction Bank
meta- (prefix) (Tw)
to set up a vendor's stand
(of an organization) to have as a subunit
mobile device (smartphone, tablet, etc)
to scam / to set a trap / to set up a scheme to defraud people
to exist in name only / empty shell / useless (idiom)
intelligent design (religion)
design norm / planning regulations
metacognition (Tw)
Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, also known as XPCC or Bingtuan ("the Corps"), a state-owned economic and paramilitary organization in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
graduation project
hypothetical
peripherals
metadata (Tw)
nuclear facility / nuclear installation
Nishimatsu Construction Co.
input device (computer)
gaming device / controller (for computer or console)
audio equipment
PRC Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) (abbr. to 住建部)
transmission facility / transmission equipment
(computing) factory settings
tentative idea
first founded
(computing) infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
the parallel postulate (geometry) / Euclid's fifth postulate
digital navigation equipment
universal hypothesis
landscape design
design of a learning environment for young children, incorporating artwork designed to appeal to them (abbr. to 環創|环创)
living facilities
production facility
customer premise equipment / CPE
network equipment

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