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Definitions
- 1. to do; to engage in
- 2. to write; to compose
- 3. to pretend; to feign
- 4. to regard as; to consider to be
- 5. to be; to act the part of
- 6. to feel (itchy, nauseous etc)
- 7. writings; works
Words Containing 作
in a spurt of energy
to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model
to put out
work (of art)
to live somewhere as a visitor; to stay with sb as a guest; to sojourn
author
to set oneself against
to become invalid
to practice fraud
to work and rest
combat
to write an essay
school assignment
one's conduct
crop
author; writer
style
side effect
to create
movement; motion; action (CL:個|个[gè])
cooperation
to call
to cooperate
cooperative
to write
to work
workday
workload
to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
one's conduct and deeds
to bestir oneself
to work
to hype
not to shrink from any crime (idiom); to commit any imaginable misdeed
attempting nothing and accomplishing nothing (idiom); without any initiative or drive
to treat as
to flare up; to break out
to look upon as
to be called; to be known as
to write
to make; to manufacture
(farm) crops
to operate
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
contemptible
serves you right for doing sth so stupid (Internet slang)
nonfeasance
noncooperation
China Writers Association (CWA)
the League of the Left-Wing Writers, an organization of writers formed in China in 1930
to make arbitrary decisions
lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning)
all the trades
Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation organization
also written as
representative work (of an author or artist)
to do
to decide; to have the final say
to rebel; to rise in revolt
to conduct oneself
workpiece
to accompany
to act as surety for sb
to counterfeit
to take one's leave
to adopt an attitude
to die
to make a match
to feel sick
workshop (of artisan)
to prepare
to flout the law
tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people
to sin
to tease
(of a ghost) to make strange things happen
daily schedule
daily schedule
to do evil
to make love
to put on an attitude
see 作戰失蹤人員|作战失踪人员[zuò zhàn shī zōng rén yuán]
missing in action (MIA) (military)
writer
to bow with hands held in front
valid
condiments
to compose (music)
composer
composer
to host (a dinner)
to commit a crime
to hinder
operating environment
to make merry
to court disaster
course of action
see 做派[zuò pài]
to be valid; to count
effort
interactive theory
to paint
to ache
haunted
to show off (loanword, from English \show\)
to take notes
to answer
to make a cocoon
to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
to drop (subject etc)
anonymous author
anonymous author
copyright
maybe
to show signs of anger
to pledge
to bear witness; to testify
competence
to be a thief
to ill-use
now working, now stopping
to be honest and upright
sawhorse
lit. scatter like birds and beasts (idiom)
masterpiece
erosion
lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
to feign
fake move or pass (sports)
affected
to do one's work
to make preparations
Fu Zuoyi (1895-1974), Guomindang general, subsequently PRC top general and politician
masterpiece
catalysis
for reference only
to serve as
photochemical effect
photosynthesis
(computing) global scope
full-time work
eight-hour working day
conjugation
decomposition
originality
originator
playwright
to put effort into (work, farming, writing etc)
action movie
work
to change into
part-time work in which one works each day for a half-day, typically a morning or an afternoon
synergy
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
improvisation
original works
Urtext edition
opposite reaction
reflex
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)
can be used for
the art of the possible (Bismarck on politics)
cooperative partner
collectivization (in Marxist theory)
Hezuo, county-level city in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘南藏族自治州[gān nán zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Gansu
(business) partner
co-worker
collective farm, Russian: kolkhoz
Studio Ghibli, Japanese film studio
assimilation
masterpiece
phagocytosis (ingesting and destroying foreign matter)
Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004
Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[lǔ xùn], academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution
to call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it
to be called
to go from anger to happiness (idiom)
United Front (either of the two alliances between the Guomindang and the Communist Party, 1923-1927 and 1937-1945)
apocryphal writings
multitasking
multithreading
your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific)
to accomplish much
Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), economic cooperation program between China and Vietnam
to cut a long story short
a match made in heaven (idiom)
Heaven is not cooperating (idiom)
Heaven is cooperating (idiom)
intercropping
lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom)
to have sth made to order
homework
pleasure seeking (idiom); life of dissipation
Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC)
a little bit of it does one good, but carried to excess it's harmful (idiom)
bad habit (e.g. nose-picking)
ruler and compass construction (geometry)
(computing) local scope