Results for “作”

now working, now stopping

to be honest and upright / to have moral integrity

sawhorse

lit. scatter like birds and beasts (idiom) / fig. to head off in various directions / to flee helter-skelter

first author (of an academic paper) (abbr. for 第一作者[dì yī zuò zhě])

contemptible / disgusting

serves you right for doing sth so stupid (Internet slang)

nonfeasance / omission (law)

noncooperation

lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning) / to share fairly between two parties / to go fifty-fifty

all the trades / people of all trades and professions

also written as

coroner (old)

erosion

lit. to make night as day (idiom) / fig. to burn the midnight oil / work especially hard

to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs) / fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour

to feign / to pretend

fake move or pass (sports) / feint

to do one's work / to work on sb / to try to persuade sb

to make preparations

catalysis

for reference only

to serve as / to be a substitute for

photochemical effect / photosynthesis / photolysis

photosynthesis

(computing) global scope

(Tw) full-time work

eight-hour workday system

decomposition

originality

to put effort into (work, farming, writing etc) / a masterpiece

action movie / CL:部[bù]

part-time work in which one works each day for a half-day, typically a morning or an afternoon

synergy / cooperative interaction

improvisation

Urtext edition

(physics) reaction force

reflex / reflection

reflex action

being anti-American is the job, but life is in America (jocular comment made about public figures who are brazenly xenophobic but whose family live abroad)