HSK 7–9 — Advanced Levels of the New HSK 3.0 (page 41)

(idiom.) creation of a new world, dawn of the history; great, heroic, epoch-making

(v.) begin a (judicial) court session

(n.) expenses

(v.) open or start a business

(n.) model, example

(v.) return with triumph, triumphant return

(v.) can be rated as, can be said to be

(v.) look after, attend to, guard; watch

(v.) nurse, look after

(v./n.) guard, watch over; guard, door keeper

(adj.) full of frustrations, rough, bumpy; unsuccessful

(n.) (spectator's) stand, bleachers

(v.) contend against

(v.) resist; oppose, defy, withstand

(n.) antibiotics

(v.) resist, make a stand and fight (against)

(v.) investigate, study, test

(v.) consider, give serious consideration to something

(adj.) demanding, harsh, severe, exigent

(n.) anything small and roundish (as a bean, pearl, etc.), grain

(n.) shell | (char.) shell; hard surface or covering

(adj.) sad, pathetic, tragic, lamentable

(phr.) exactly, that's just the way it is

(idiom.) chance to take advantage of

(adj.) shameful, disgraceful, ignominious

(adj.) valuable, admirable, commendable

(phr.) it could be said; it could be called

(phr.) one may well imagine

(adj.) funny, amusing; ridiculous, laughable, ludicrous

(adj.) suspicious, questionable

(n.) guest room

(v.) to depict, to portray; to draw, to engrave

(n.) passenger plane

(phr.) passenger flow, the number of passengers to a certain direction in a certain period

(v./n.) clone

(adv.) painstakingly, sedulously; mean (to do)

(n.) passenger traffic or transport; (in Taiwan) long-distance bus that transports tourists

(idiom.) make a mark on the boat to indicate the place where one dropped the sword -- foolish undertaking, to take...

(v.) earnestly request, beg, entreat

(adj.) empty, deserted