- to be willing to do sth; to be ready to do sth; to be happy to do sth; content; satisfied
- to lighten; to ease; to alleviate
- to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc); burden
- 任 rèn: 任 ren4: to assign; to appoint; to take up a post; office; responsibility; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter (how, what etc); classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)任 Rén: 任 Ren2: surname Ren
- to occupy a post currently; current (president etc); incumbent; (coll.) current boyfriend (girlfriend, spouse)
- to go on vacation; to have a holiday; to take leave
- treatment; pay; salary; status; rank
- plumbing and electrical work; tradesman who does both plumbing and electrical work
- nuclear power
- to code; to encode; code
- to mention; to raise (a subject); to bring to sb's attention
- to hold a governmental office or post; to assume office of; to take charge of; to serve as
- to be on all-night duty; to be on night watch; to keep a vigil
- day and night; period of 24 hours; continuously, without stop
- on night duty
- to change shift; the next work shift; to relieve (a workman on the previous shift); to take over the job
- very early in the morning; in the wee hours
- to prevent; to avoid; to excuse; to exempt; to relieve; (of a debt) to remit
- service; duties; an orderly (military)
- assistant
- husband
- 勤 qín: 勤 qin2: diligent; industrious; hardworking; frequent; regular; constant; (bound form) work; duty; attendance勤 qín: 勤 qin2: industrious; solicitous
- to gain advantage by any means, fair or foul; to be opportunistic; to be full of tricks
- arduous and thankless task (idiom); strenuous and unrewarding
- 差事 chāi shi: 差事 chai1 shi5: errand; assignment; job; commission; CL:件[jian4]; see also 差使[chai1 shi5]差事 chà shì: 差事 cha4 shi4: poor; not up to standard
- convenient; easy; to facilitate
- measure; step; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to do sth in place of sb else
- officialdom; bureaucracy
- experienced person; an old hand at sth
- the Absolute or Supreme Ultimate, the source of all things according to some interpretations of Chinese mythology
- whole body; from head to toe; single person; a suit of clothes
- to use fully; to put to use
- midnight; in the middle of the night
- half an hour; 30 minutes
- to stipulate; to specify; to prescribe; to fix (a price); to set (a quota); regulations; rules; provisions; stipulations
- to penalize; to punish
- to be full of remorse; to repent and redress one's errors
- compact; terse; tight (schedule)
- to recollect; to recall (past times); to look back
- 似 sì: 似 si4: to seem; to appear; to resemble; similar; -like; pseudo-; (more) than似 shì: 似 shi4: used in 似的[shi4 de5]
- years; time; age
- the second time; second; number two