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to dismiss students at the end of the school day
HSK 1
to feel relieved / to feel reassured / to be at ease
HSK 2
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  *放* | 放* | *放
to put / to place / to release / to free / to let go / to let out / to set off (fireworks)
HSK 1
to lay down; to put down / to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside / to lower (the blinds etc)
HSK 2
to bloom / to open / to be open (to the public) / to open up (to the outside) / to be open-minded / unrestrained by convention / unconstrained in one's sexuality
HSK 3
to relax; to slacken; to loosen
HSK 4
to have a holiday or vacation
HSK 1
to renounce; to abandon; to give up
HSK 5
to enlarge / to magnify
HSK 5
to liberate / to emancipate / liberation / refers to the Communists' victory over the Nationalists in 1949 / CL:
HSK 5
to broadcast; to transmit (by radio or TV)
HSK 3
to reform and open to the outside world / refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980
HSK 7-9
to provide / to give / to grant
HSK 6
to deposit / to store / to leave in sb's care
HSK 7-9
People's Liberation Army (PLA), the unified armed forces of the People's Republic of China
to show (a movie) / to screen
HSK 7-9
only the official is allowed to light the fire / Gods may do what cattle may not / quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi
to indulge / to pamper / to connive at / permissive / indulgent / self-indulgent / unrestrained / undisciplined / uncultured / boorish
HSK 7-9
to release (a hostage) / to put back in place
to tag (an animal, for scientific research); to band (a bird)
to turn on the water / to let water out / (sports) to throw a game
HSK 7-9
a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956
to arrange in order / to emit; to discharge (exhaust gas, waste water etc) / (of animals) to ovulate; to discharge semen
HSK 7-9
Serf Liberation Day (PRC)
radioactive
wanton / unbridled / presumptuous / impudent
HSK 7-9
to delegate / to decentralize / to demote a party cadre to work on the shop floor or in the countryside
applicable anywhere (idiom)
magnifying glass
open-source software (OSS)
to have no room to put sth / to be unable to let go
People's Liberation Army
to replay / to play back
radioactive waste
to let go one's hold / to give up / to have a free hand
to park (a car etc) / to moor (a boat etc) / to leave sth (in a place)
HSK 7-9
(PRC, mid-1990s) to restructure the large state-owned enterprises (SOEs) controlled by the central government and privatize smaller SOEs at the local level
to let pass
to put in / to insert
to survey / to view broadly
(idiom) unwilling to let go / like a dog with a bone / dogged
open system
People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)
to let off / to give out
to spread a smokescreen
to put into
to let off / to let slip by / to let sb get away with sth
HSK 7-9
to kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson
bold and unconstrained / powerful and free
to put
HSK 7-9
lit. can pick it up or put it down (idiom) / fig. to take what comes / to meet gains or losses with equanimity
to raise (livestock or poultry) in an open environment / to breed (fish, bees, silkworms etc) in a suitable environment; to culture (kelp etc) / to release (a captive animal) into the wild
extroverted / outgoing / to play audio through speakers (rather than through earphones) / (old) to appoint to a post outside the capital
to light / to set off (firecrackers etc)
HSK 7-9
to stand sb up / to bail on sb
to set free a captive animal (in some cases, as an act of Buddhist mercy)
to be on summer vacation
power amplifier (abbr. for 功率放大器)
to let (sb) off / to let (sb) get away with sth
after liberation (i.e. after the Communist's victory) / after the establishment of PRC in 1949
to put sth on the market
to sob loudly; to bawl
(coll.) (of a couple) to display affection in public or by posting photos on social media
extensive / expansive / large-scale
to be released on bail (law)
to burst with joy (idiom) / to be over the moon / to be elated
playlist
to relax (a rule) / to ease (restrictions) / to extend (a time limit) / to let out (a garment) / to expand / to broaden
radiation / rays of radiation
to fire / to discharge / to release (fireworks, smokescreen, poison gas, virus etc)
War of Liberation (1945-49), after which the Communists 共產黨武裝|共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 國民政府|国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
radiology
(coll.) to stand sb up / to fail to honor an agreement
to set up; to arrange; to lay out
HSK 7-9
to input / to throw in / to unload / to put into circulation
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
to ease up the pace / to slow things down
bold and unrestrained / untrammeled
player (e.g. CD player)
electrical discharge / (coll.) to lure / to entice
bring it on! / give me all you got!
lit. to draw the bow without shooting the arrow (idiom) / fig. to bluff / to be all talk and no action / false bravado
carbon emissions; carbon dioxide emissions
to blossom
HSK 7-9
scaling / resizing / zoom (graphics)
to let sb do whatever they want / to indulge / to give free reins to / to let things slide / to drift aimlessly / laissez-faire
to prattle on self-importantly (idiom)
in full bloom
cinema room / viewing room
to shine brightly / (fig.) to show promise / to be on the up and up
to lower / to be humble
to fart / to break wind / to talk nonsense / Utter rubbish!
open system(s)
broadside / simultaneous fired cannonade
to project singular splendor or radiance / to perform brilliantly
open network
cannot stop worrying
a hundred flowers bloom (idiom); let the arts have free expression
to wail loudly and mournfully (idiom)
to lay down a heavy burden

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