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to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement
HSK 3
to give up / to abandon (a goal etc) / to let sth go / forget it / let the matter drop
HSK 7-9
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to rest / to stop doing sth for a period of time / to cease / (imperative) don't
to compensate for working on a holiday by resting on a workday / to compensate for resting on a workday by working on a holiday
to take holidays in rotation / to stagger employees' days off / (agriculture) to lie fallow in rotation
to have a public holiday; to have an official holiday / (Tw) (of a business establishment) to be closed regularly on certain days, as determined by a trade association
(idiom) to chatter endlessly; to talk nonstop
(idiom) to let the matter rest; to just let it go; to take it lying down (usu. used in the negative)
noon break / lunch break / lunchtime nap
to retire / to leave work and rest (euphemism for compulsory retirement of old cadres)
to be on sick leave
to take deferred time off (to make up for working during the weekend or holidays) / compensatory leave
to shift holidays, taking a weekday off
(idiom) to chatter endlessly; to talk nonstop
to talk incessantly / to chatter on and on
complete rest (after an illness)
endlessly / ceaselessly
without stopping to sleep or have a rest (idiom)
lit. either don't do it, or don't rest (idiom) / fig. if you do it at all, you may as well go the whole hog / in for a penny, in for a pound
to request permission to resign from an official position (old)
to get thoroughly drunk (idiom) / to get plastered
to fight to one's last gasp
Mogadishu, capital of Somalia (Tw)
angry / wrathful
rest for now / stop (usually imperative form)
to let matters rest


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