HSK 7–9 — Advanced Levels of the New HSK 3.0 (page 5)

(n.) ice-lolly

(phr.) the tip of the iceberg, a very small percentage of the total.

(n.) world of ice and snow

(v.) take orders, receive commands

(v.) (lit.) to have, to uphold (an attitude, principle, standpoint, idea, etc.)

(n.) (med.) complication

(n./v.) (of companies) merger and acquisition, acquisition; take over

(adv.) shoulder to shoulder, abreast, side by side

(n.) case history of a patient

(v.) to parallel, go side by side, operate or do sth simultaneously

(n.) illness, disease; symptom of illness

(v.) to fluctuate, to undulate

(v.) to deprive, to strip

(v.) to affect, to spread to

(v./n.) to appropriate, to allocate; fund appropriation, grant-in-aid

(n.) billows, great waves (of a story with great momentum)

(n.) setback, twists and turns

(n.) uncle (father's older brother), old man

(n.) father's older brother, elder uncle

(v.) reject, turn down, overrule

(adj.) erudite, learned

(n.) games (such as chess dice, , etc.), gambling

(adj./adv.) unstable; not always, not certainly

(adj.) incapable, incompetent

(adj.) not too encouraging, far from good, anything but reassuring

(adv.) inadvertently, carelessly, accidentally

(adj.) not count, of no account

(v.) disdain to do, think that it is not worth doing, feeling unworthy to do

(adv.) untiring, unremitting

(v.) be no less than, be not inferior to

(idiom.) disappear without trace, vanish all of a sudden

(idiom.) isn't it a pleasure?

(n.) unhealthy tendency, malpractice

(v.) to capture, to catch

(v.) supply provisions and fodder

Predation

(v.) to feed, to nurture

(v./n.) to assist; assistance, subsidy

(idiom.) not feel ashamed to ask and learn from one's inferiors

(phr.) leave without saying goodbye