政府机关 政府機關 zhèng fǔ jī guān government (viewed as an organization) / institutions of government / government office 吃皇粮 吃皇糧 chī huáng liáng lit. to eat from government coffers / to serve as a government employee / to live off government money 生产关系 生產關係 shēng chǎn guān xì relations between levels of production / socio-economic relations 外交关系 外交關係 wài jiāo guān xì foreign relations / diplomatic relations 邦交 bāng jiāo relations between two countries / diplomatic relations syn 劳资关系 勞資關係 láo zī guān xì industrial relations / relations between labor and capital 劳雇关系 勞雇關係 láo gù guān xì relations between labor and employer / industrial relations 联合国与民间社会关系知名人士小组 Panel of Eminent Persons on United Nations-Civil Society Relations / Cardoso Panel on UN Relations with Civil Society 外交部负责英联邦事务的部长级代表 Ministre des relations extérieures, chargé des relations avec le Commonwealth 主管对外关系助理秘书长 zhǔ guǎn duì wài guān xì zhù lǐ mì shū zhǎng Assistant Secretary-General for External Relations 对外关系助理 duì wài guān xì zhù lǐ external relations assistant 中苏解决悬案大纲协定 中蘇解決懸案大綱協定 zhōng sū jiě jué xuán àn dà gāng xié dìng the treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern Warlord government of China 理货员 理貨員 lǐ huò yuán shop assistant / warehouse assistant 信息技术助理 information technology assistant / IT assistant 助理档案保管员 zhù lǐ dàng àn bǎo guǎn yuán Assistant Archivist / Archives Assistant 儿基会助理代表 兒基會助理代表 Assistant UNICEF Representative / UNICEF assistant representative 助理署长特别助理 助理署長特別助理 Special Assistant to the Assistant Administrator 执行助理特别助理 執行助理特別助理 Special Assistant to the Executive Assistant 助理秘书长特别助理 助理秘書長特別助理 Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary-General 主管政策规划助理秘书长特别助理 主管政策規劃助理秘書長特別助理 Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning PA P A public area attendant (tasked with cleaning the public areas of a hotel) / marketing assistant / sales assistant 副部长 副部長 fù bù zhǎng assistant (government) minister 蒋介石 蔣介石 jiǎng jiè shí Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975), military leader, head of the Nationalist government in China 1928-1949 and the government in exile on Taiwan 1950-1975 美国政府 美國政府 měi guó zhèng fǔ US government / American government 国民政府 國民政府 guó mín zhèng fǔ Nationalist government (the government of the Republic of China 1925-1948) 政体 政體 zhèng tǐ form of government / system of government 咨文 zī wén (old) official communication (between government offices of equal rank) / report delivered by the head of government on affairs of state syn 府 fǔ seat of government / government repository (archive) / official residence / mansion / presidential palace / (honorific) Your home / prefecture (from Tang to Qing times) syn 共产党政府 共產黨政府 gòng chǎn dǎng zhèng fǔ the communist party government / the government of China 加委 jiā wěi (of a government authority) to appoint (sb recommended by a subsidiary unit or a non-government organization) 内罗毕联合公报 Joint communiqué of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Government of the Republic of Rwanda on a common approach to ending the threat posed to peace and stability in both countries and the Great Lakes region / Nairobi Joint Comm 关于联合政府伙伴关系原则的协议 關於聯合政府夥伴關系原則的協議 Acting Together for Kenya - Agreement on the principles of partnership of the coalition Government / Agreement on the Principles of Partnership of the Coalition Government 不结盟国家国家元首或政府首脑会议 不結盟國家國家元首或政府首腦會議 Summit Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries / Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries / NAM Summit 不结盟运动首脑会议 不結盟運動首腦會議 Summit Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries / Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries / NAM Summit 看守政府 caretaker government / interim government syn 选士 選士 xuǎn shì (old) to select talented scholars for government service (through exams etc) / (Zhou dynasty) distinguished individuals selected and recommended from various regions to the central government 市府 shì fǔ municipal government / city government / city hall 公关 公關 gōng guān public relations 过往 過往 guò wǎng to come and go / to have friendly relations with / in the past / previous syn 建构 建構 jiàn gòu to construct (often sth abstract, such as good relations) / to set up / to develop / construction (abstract) / architecture 融洽 róng qià harmonious / friendly relations / on good terms with one another syn 交接 jiāo jiē (of two things) to come into contact / to meet / to hand over to / to take over from / to associate with / to have friendly relations with / to have sexual intercourse syn 交情 jiāo qing friendship / friendly relations syn 性关系 性關係 xìng guān xi sexual relations / sexual contact / intercourse 修好 xiū hǎo to repair (sth broken) / to restore (sth damaged) / to establish friendly relations with / (literary) to do meritorious deeds syn 和睦 hé mù peaceful relations / harmonious syn 人缘 人緣 rén yuán relations with other people syn 融融 róng róng in harmony / happy / warm relations syn 中日关系 中日關係 zhōng rì guān xì Sino-Japanese relations 公共关系 公共關係 gōng gòng guān xì public relations 血族 xuè zú blood relations / one's own flesh and blood / kin 国际关系 國際關係 guó jì guān xì international relations 通商 tōng shāng (of nations) to have trade relations / to engage in trade syn 中越 zhōng yuè Sino-Vietnam (relations) 两国关系 兩國關係 liǎng guó guān xì bilateral relations 发生关系 發生關係 fā shēng guān xi to have sexual relations with sb / to have dealings with 决裂 決裂 jué liè to rupture / to burst open / to break / to break off relations with / a rupture 绝迹 絕跡 jué jì to be eradicated / to vanish / extinct / to break off relations syn 巴以 bā yǐ Palestinian-Israeli (relations) 捉奸 捉姦 zhuō jiān to catch a couple in the act (adultery, illicit sexual relations) 建交 jiàn jiāo to establish diplomatic relations 决绝 決絕 jué jué to sever all relations with sb / determined / decisive 正常化 zhèng cháng huà normalization (of diplomatic relations etc) syn 中非 zhōng fēi China-Africa (relations) / Central Africa / Central African Republic 破冰 pò bīng (fig.) to break the ice / to begin to restore amicable relations 天伦 天倫 tiān lún family bonds / ethical family relations syn 中澳 zhōng ào China-Australia (relations) 公使 gōng shǐ minister / diplomat performing ambassadorial role in Qing times, before regular diplomatic relations 两性关系 兩性關係 liǎng xìng guān xì gender relations 冰释 冰釋 bīng shì to dispel (enmity, misunderstandings etc) / to vanish (of misgivings, differences of opinion) / thaw (in relations) syn 汪道涵 wāng dào hán Wang Daohan (1915-2005), former president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits 交欢 交歡 jiāo huān to have cordial relations with each other / to have sexual intercourse 苟且 gǒu qiě perfunctory / careless / drifting along / resigned to one's fate / improper (relations) / illicit (sex) syn 八面玲珑 八面玲瓏 bā miàn líng lóng be smooth and slick (in establishing social relations) syn 绝交 絕交 jué jiāo to break off relations / to break with sb syn 中俄关系 中俄關系 zhōng é guān xì Sino-Russian relations 苟合 gǒu hé illicit sexual relations syn 乱 亂 luàn in confusion or disorder / in a confused state of mind / disorder / upheaval / riot / illicit sexual relations / to throw into disorder / to mix up / indiscriminate / random / arbitrary syn 江八点 江八點 jiāng bā diǎn Jiang Zemin's 江澤民|江泽民[Jiang1 Ze2min2] eight propositions on developing relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits, presented in a 1995 speech 串亲访友 串親訪友 chuàn qīn fǎng yǒu to call on friends and relations (idiom) 兰因絮果 蘭因絮果 lán yīn xù guǒ starts well but ends in separation (of marital relations) syn 亲疏贵贱 親疏貴賤 qīn shū guì jiàn close and distant, rich and poor (idiom) / everyone / all possible relations 访亲问友 訪親問友 fǎng qīn wèn yǒu to visit friends and relations (idiom) 重修旧好 重修舊好 chóng xiū jiù hǎo to make friends again / to renew old cordial relations 改善关系 改善關係 gǎi shàn guān xi to improve relations 海峡两岸关系协会 海峽兩岸關係協會 hǎi xiá liǎng àn guān xi xié huì PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) 海协会 海協會 hǎi xié huì Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) / abbr. for 海峽兩岸關係協會|海峡两岸关系协会[Hai3 xia2 Liang3 an4 Guan1 xi5 Xie2 hui4] 建立正式外交关系 建立正式外交關係 jiàn lì zhèng shì wài jiāo guān xì formally establish diplomatic relations 冷淡关系 冷淡關係 lěng dàn guān xì cold relations (e.g. between countries) 台湾关系法 臺灣關係法 tái wān guān xì fǎ Taiwan Relations Act (of US Congress, 1979) 政治关系 政治關係 zhèng zhì guān xì political relations 国际关系学院 國際關係學院 guó jì guān xì xué yuàn University of International Relations, Beijing, established in 1949 七情 qī qíng seven emotional states / seven affects of traditional Chinese medical theory and therapy, namely: joy 喜[xi3], anger 怒[nu4], anxiety 憂|忧[you1], thought 思[si1], grief 悲[bei1], fear 恐[kong3], fright 驚|惊[jing1] / seven relations 友好关系 友好關係 yǒu hǎo guān xì good relations 外交关系理事会 外交關係理事會 wài jiāo guān xì lǐ shì huì Council on Foreign Relations (US policy think tank) 密切关系 密切關係 mì qiè guān xì close relations / intimate connections 对外关系 對外關係 duì wài guān xì foreign relations 常态化 常態化 cháng tài huà (statistics) normalized / to normalize (relations etc) / to become the norm 复交 復交 fù jiāo to reopen diplomatic relations 