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school assignment / homework / work / task / operation / CL: 個|个 / to operate
HSK 2
occupation; profession; vocation / professional
HSK 3
industry
HSK 3
undertaking / project / activity / (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause / publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation / career / occupation / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to begin an undertaking; to start an enterprise / entrepreneurship
HSK 3
specialty / specialized field / main field of study (at university) / major / CL: 門|门, 個|个 / professional
HSK 3
agriculture / farming
HSK 3
business / trade / commerce
HSK 3
to get a job / employment
HSK 3
to open a business / to open a practice / open (for business)
HSK 3
company; firm; enterprise; corporation / CL:
HSK 4
graduation / to graduate / to finish school
HSK 4
trade; profession; industry; business
HSK 4
in one's spare time / outside working hours / amateur (historian etc)
HSK 4
to do business / to trade
HSK 4
unemployment / to lose one's job
HSK 4
graduate
HSK 4
industry / estate / property / industrial
HSK 5
property / real estate / abbr. for 物業管理|物业管理, property management
HSK 5
business / professional work / service / CL: 項|项
HSK 5
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line of business / industry / occupation / job / employment / school studies / enterprise / property / (Buddhism) karma / deed / to engage in / already
HSK 7-9
to practice (a trade)
HSK 7-9
achievement; accomplishment / (in more recent usage) performance (of a business, employee etc); results
HSK 7-9
studies / schoolwork
HSK 7-9
to cease trading (temporarily or permanently) / to close down
HSK 7-9
dedicated to one's work
HSK 7-9
(idiom) conscientious / assiduous
HSK 7-9
unemployment rate
HSK 7-9
occupational disease
HSK 7-9
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surname Ye
forest industry / forestry
livestock husbandry / animal product industry
industry
to buy real estate
every trade; all professions; all walks of life
industry / commercial enterprise
to work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer) / practitioner / professional
mining industry
(within) the industry; the profession
film industry
main business
owner / proprietor
exploit / great undertaking
the task of establishing and maintaining hegemony
to achieve or accomplish goals
to wait for employment; to be unemployed
same trade or business / person in the same trade or business
to finish school, esp. a short course / to complete a course / (of a company) to cease operations
to teach / to bequeath
Xingye county in Yulin 玉林, Guangxi
Leye county in Baise 百色, Guangxi
lesson / schoolwork
achievement / outstanding work / glorious deed
not to engage in honest work / to ignore one's proper occupation / not to attend to one's proper duties
fishing industry / fishery
great cause / great undertaking
dairy industry; dairy farming
foundation / base / family estate
to attend (a school) / to drop out (of college etc)
family property
newspaper industry
to close down (temporarily or permanently) / to go out of business
to live in peace and work happily (idiom)
to resume one's old trade (idiom)
to get married and start a career (idiom) / to settle down / to establish oneself
already
to study at school
an old name for Nanjing, called Jiankang 建康 or Jianye during the Eastern Jin (317-420)
mastery of study lies in diligence (idiom). You can only master a subject by assiduous study. / Excellence in work is only possible with diligence. / Practice makes perfect.
to preserve one's heritage / to defend the accomplishments of previous generations / to carry on the good work / to keep one's business going
to study / to learn from a master / (pupil's first person pronoun) I, your student
karmic hindrance (Buddhism) / karmic consequences that stand in the way of enlightenment / (term of abuse, especially toward the younger generation) devil spawn / (fig.) money
business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying) / original business / core business / (literary) agriculture
one's regular job
one's old profession / trade of one's forebears
to complete a course of study (old) / to graduate
meritorious achievement
teacher / one's teacher
already
stable household, established profession (idiom); settled and comfortably off
the root cause (of evil) / bane (Buddhism)
dealer / trader / person or company engaged in some industry or trade
(retail industry) format
part-time college (abbr. for 業餘大學|业余大学)
business hours; opening hours; office hours
sin (in Buddhism) / enmity leading to sin / also written 冤孽
sea of evil / endless crime
(Buddhism) karma
to be successful in business / professional success
manufacturer
(Tw) (media) writing an article or creating a video favorable to a business in return for payment from the business (abbr. for 業務配合|业务配合)
evil dragon
recycling industry
entrepreneur
Harbin Institute of Technology
preparatory literary studies for imperial examination
business model
service industry
to be successful in one's studies / academic success
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