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HSK
to economize / to conserve (resources) / economy / frugal
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *約* | 約* | *約
to make an appointment / to invite / approximately / pact / treaty / to economize / to restrict / to reduce (a fraction) / concise
HSK 3
approximately / probably
HSK 3
to sign a contract or agreement
HSK 5
to restrict / condition
HSK 5
booking / reservation / to book / to make an appointment
HSK 6
contract; agreement / CL:
HSK 6
convention (i.e. international agreement)
HSK 7-9
treaty / pact / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
to break a promise / to violate an agreement / to default (on a loan or contract)
HSK 7-9
to agree (on a meeting place, date etc) / to reach agreement / to make an appointment
HSK 7-9
vague; faint; indistinct
HSK 7-9
agreement / contract
HSK 7-9
terms (of an agreement)
Old Testament
former agreement / former contract
graceful and subdued (style)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *約* | 約* | *約
to weigh in a balance or on a scale
specially engaged / employed or commissioned for a special task
peace treaty
to renew or extend a contract
New York
sketchy / concise / abbreviated
lease
to keep a promise / to honor an agreement
to invite / invitation
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) (abbr. for 北大西洋公約組織|北大西洋公约组织)
New Testament
engagement / wedding contract
to restrict / to agree to a contract / offer; bid
to terminate an agreement / to cancel a contract
to keep an appointment
(idiom) vaguely; faintly; indistinctly
bet / wager
(idiom) graceful; lovely
to break a promise / breach of contract
to practice strict economy (idiom)
to keep an appointment / to keep one's word
(term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty – a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries)
Treaty of Aigun, 1858 unequal treaty forced on Qing China by Tsarist Russia
Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain
(literary) graceful; charming
trade treaty (abbr. for 通商條約|通商条约) / to mutually agree (to do sth) (abbr. for 商量約定|商量约定)
contract / written agreement
Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895), concluding the First Sino-Japanese War 甲午戰爭|甲午战争
frugal; economical; thrifty
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) between Qing China and Russia
to miss an appointment
to break an agreement / to go back on one's word / to fail to keep one's promise
to miss an appointment
Warsaw Pact, Soviet-led military alliance (1955-1991) (abbr. for 華沙條約組織|华沙条约组织)
peace treaty
to conclude a treaty
to keep a promise / to honor an agreement
contract of alliance / oath or treaty between allies
to make a contract
secret appointment
surname Arroyo
oath / vow / pledge / promise
intensive
to break a promise
entente / pact / agreement / negotiated settlement
in violation of contract and good faith
contraction (in grammar) / abbreviation
Shen Yue (441-513), writer and historian during Liang of Southern dynasties 南朝梁, compiler of History of Song of the Southern dynasties 宋書|宋书
common measure
to conclude a treaty / to make an agreement / contract (at bridge)
agreement between the residents of a , an administrative district under a city or town (Tw)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
book contract
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
covenant
(idiom) diligent and thrifty
Doctrine and Covenants
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora / CITES
forward contract (finance)
having no common measure / incommensurable / incommensurate
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
movie contract
the Treaty of Beijing of 1860 between Qing China and Tsarist Russia
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1698) between Qing China and Russia
Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881 in which Russia agreed to hand back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
treaty of Tianjin of 1885 ceding Vietnam to France
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
to simplistically reduce (sth) to just ...; to regard (sth) as merely ...
UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)
commensurable / having a common measure
the Camp David agreement of 1978 brokered by President Jimmy Carter between Israel and Egypt
Treaty of Tianjin of 1858, a sequence of unequal treaties 不平等條約|不平等条约 between Russia, USA, England, France and Qing China
Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet
takeover bid
unequal treaty of 1898 whereby the Qing dynasty ceded the lease of Lüshun (Port Arthur) to Russia
futures contract (finance)
Sampaio (name) / Jorge Sampaio (1939-), Portuguese lawyer and politician, president of Portugal 1996-2006 / Sampaio, town in Brazil
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)

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