HSK 7–9 — Advanced Levels of the New HSK 3.0 (page 4)

(v.) to help settle down, to find a place for

(n.) law case, case

(v.) stew, simmer (on a slow fire); extract by long heating; endure | (v.) to stew in water

(n.) mystery

(v.) dig, remove; hold on to, cling to | (v.) steal from pockets; gather, rake up; braise, stew

(n.) scar

(phr.) be very impatient, be only too anxious to do something, earnestly wish

(v.) to fawn, to flatter, to ingratiate

(sep-v.) to guard a pass; to check up strictly on ... (for mistakes)

(adj.) overbearing, high-handed, arbitrary

(sep-v.) stop work in order to force an employer to comply with demands, strike

(v.) to break off with both hands | (v.) (dialect) to break off (relations); to separate with fingers; (dialect) to analyze, to talk

(v./adj.) to spoil, to ruin, to stain; corrupt, perverted

(v.) please help; request (sb to do sth), entrust (sb with sth)

(v.) to promulgate

(v.) to award, to grant

(n.) partner, companion, mate

(idiom.) stop halfway, give up half way

(v.) to kidnap, to abduct

(n./m./v.) scales; pound (measure of weight); to weigh (with a scale) | (char.) used in 磅礴

(v.) shield

(n.) bundle, cloth-wrapper; burden | (n.) jokes in cross talk

(v.) encircle, besiege

(adj./n.) saturated; saturation

(idiom.) have gone through a great changes in one's life

(sep-v.) keep secret, maintain secrecy

(n.) babysitter, nanny, child-care worker; housekeeper, housemaid

(v./adj.) guard, keep; conservative; hidebound

(v.) defend, safeguard

(v./n.) maintain, maintenance

(v.) take (good) care of oneself, take care

(sep-v.) take revenge

(n.) pay, remuneration

(v.) reciprocate, payback, requite

(v./n.) to revenge oneself (on sb), to retaliate (against/upon sb)

(n.) ambition, aspiration

(v.) expose (film, photography, etc.); make public (issue)

(v.) apply for reimbursement

(n./adj.) sorrow, depression; depressed, sorrowful

(adj.) mean, despicable, ignoble