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Trad. 約
- to make an appointment
- to invite
- approximately
- pact
- treaty
- to economize
- to restrict
- to reduce (a fraction)
- concise
Trad. 約見
- to arrange an interview
- an appointment (with the foreign ambassador)
Trad. 約談
- to arrange a meeting for a formal talk (usu. by an authority with a subordinate); to summon for questioning or a warning
Trad. 商約
- trade treaty (abbr. for 通商條約|通商条约[tong1 shang1 tiao2 yue1])
- to mutually agree (to do sth) (abbr. for 商量約定|商量约定[shang1 liang5 yue1 ding4])
Trad. 違約
- to break a promise
- to violate an agreement
- to default (on a loan or contract)
Trad. 沈約
- Shen Yue (441-513), writer and historian during Liang of Southern dynasties 南朝梁, compiler of History of Song of the Southern dynasties 宋書|宋书
Trad. 里約
- agreement between the residents of a 里[li3], an administrative district under a city or town (Tw)
Trad. 北約
- NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) (abbr. for 北大西洋公約組織|北大西洋公约组织[Bei3 Da4 xi1 Yang2 Gong1 yue1 Zu3 zhi1])
Trad. 化約
- to simplistically reduce (sth) to just ...; to regard (sth) as merely ...
Trad. 華約
- Warsaw Pact, Soviet-led military alliance (1955–1991) (abbr. for 華沙條約組織|华沙条约组织[Hua2 sha1 Tiao2 yue1 Zu3 zhi1])
Trad. 約分
- reduced fraction (e.g. one half for three sixths)
- to reduce a fraction by canceling common factors in the numerator and denominator
Trad. 約同
- to invite sb to go along with oneself (to a meeting, on a trip etc)
Trad. 約嗎
- (neologism c. 2014) (slang) Are you interested? (originally an invitation for casual sex, later generalized as a playful or humorous invitation for any activity)
Trad. 約定
- to agree on sth (after discussion)
- to conclude a bargain
- to arrange
- to promise
- to stipulate
- to make an appointment
- stipulated (time, amount, quality etc)
- an arrangement
- a deal
- appointment
- undertaking
- commitment
- understanding
- engagement
- stipulation
Trad. 相約
- to agree (on a meeting place, date etc)
- to reach agreement
- to make an appointment
Trad. 約炮
- (slang) to hook up for sex; to arrange a casual sexual encounter (often with a new or non-committed partner)
Trad. 背約
- to break an agreement
- to go back on one's word
- to fail to keep one's promise
Trad. 約西亞
- Josiah or Yoshiyahu (649-609 BC), a king of Judah (Judaism)
Trad. 馬約特
- Mayotte, island between NW Madagascar and Mozambique
Trad. 締約國
- signatory states
- countries that are party to a treaty
Trad. 桑帕約
- Sampaio (name)
- Jorge Sampaio (1939-), Portuguese lawyer and politician, president of Portugal 1996-2006
- Sampaio, town in Brazil
Trad. 紐約客
- The New Yorker, US magazine
- resident of New York
Trad. 李約瑟
- Joseph Needham (1900-1995), British biochemist and author of Science and Civilization in China
Trad. 協約國
- Allies
- entente (i.e. Western powers allied to China in WW1)
Trad. 約翰壹書
- First epistle of St John
- also written 約翰一書|约翰一书
Trad. 約翰斯頓
- Johnston, Johnson, Johnstone etc, name
Trad. 約翰貳書
- Second epistle of St John
- also written 約翰二書|约翰二书
Trad. 違信背約
- in violation of contract and good faith
Trad. 如約而至
- to arrive as planned
- right on schedule
Trad. 斯密約瑟
- Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844), founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
Trad. 聖約翰斯
- St John's, capital of Labrador and Newfoundland province, Canada
Trad. 馬關條約
- Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895), concluding the First Sino-Japanese War 甲午戰爭|甲午战争[Jia3 wu3 Zhan4 zheng1]
Trad. 契約精神
- culture of honoring contractual obligations
Trad. 拉薩條約
- Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet
Trad. 隱約其辭
- equivocal speech
- to use vague or ambiguous language
Trad. 不約而同
- (idiom) (of two or more people) to take the same action without prior consultation; (usu. used adverbially) all (or both) of them, independently; as if by prior agreement
Trad. 隱隱約約
- (idiom) vaguely; faintly; indistinctly
Trad. 天津條約
- Treaty of Tianjin of 1858, a sequence of unequal treaties 不平等條約|不平等条约 between Russia, USA, England, France and Qing China
Trad. 辛丑條約
- Boxer Protocol of 1901 signed in Beijing, ending the Eight-power Allied Force intervention after the Boxer uprising
Trad. 璦琿條約
- Treaty of Aigun, 1858 unequal treaty forced on Qing China by Tsarist Russia
Trad. 棄約背盟
- to abrogate an agreement
- to break one's oath (idiom)
Trad. 約定俗成
- established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement
- customary convention
Trad. 厲行節約
- to practice strict economy (idiom)
Trad. 約會對象
- partner for dating
- a date (boyfriend or girlfriend)
Trad. 約法三章
- to agree on three laws (idiom)
- three-point covenant
- (fig.) preliminary agreement
- basic rules
Trad. 中法新約
- treaty of Tianjin of 1885 ceding Vietnam to France
Trad. 約略估計
- approximate estimate
- to reckon roughly
Trad. 南京條約
- Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain
Trad. 博文約禮
- vigorously pursuing knowledge, while scrupulously abiding by the rules of decorum (idiom)
Trad. 約翰保羅
- John Paul (name)
- Pope John Paul II, Karol Józef Wojtyła (1920-2005), Pope 1978-2005
Trad. 約翰內斯堡
- Johannesburg, South Africa
Trad. 尼布楚條約
- Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) between Qing China and Russia
Trad. 大衛營和約
- the Camp David agreement of 1978 brokered by President Jimmy Carter between Israel and Egypt
Trad. 法律約束力
- legal force (i.e. binding in law)
Trad. 最大公約數
- highest common factor HCF
- greatest common divisor GCD
Trad. 不平等條約
- (term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty – a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries)
Trad. 日光節約時
- daylight saving time
Trad. 履約保證金
- performance bond (international trade)
Trad. 教義和聖約
- Doctrine and Covenants
Trad. 約翰·拉貝
- John Rabe (1882-1950), German who helped protect Chinese during the Nanking massacre period
Trad. 約翰·本仁
- John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路歷程|天路历程
Trad. 里瓦幾亞條約
- Treaty of Livadia (1879) between Russia and China, relating to territory in Chinese Turkistan, renegotiated in 1881 (Treaty of St. Petersburg)
Trad. 兒童權利公約
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Trad. 信貸違約掉期
- credit default swap (finance)
Trad. 改訂伊犁條約
- Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881 in which Russia agreed to hand back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
Trad. 中俄伊犁條約
- Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights