- middle part; central section; central region
- on the one hand
- to receive in no small measure
- direction; trend; to incline
- care; solicitude; to show care for; concerned about; attentive to
- to be deficient in sth; to be short of sth (supplies, money etc)
- in short; in a word; in brief
- to select; to make one's choice; to decide what to accept and what to reject
- to set foot in; to step into; to become involved for the first time
- systemic problem (sometimes refers specifically to corrupt practices)
- none lacking; none missing; everything is there; everyone without exception
- writing style (formal); to send an official written communication
- quick-witted; resourceful
- to carry on as before; to follow (an old custom etc)
- legendary; fantasy saga; romance; short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
- this text; article; the main body of a book
- kiss; to kiss; mouth
- not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing
- to swallow; to engulf; to gobble up
- to digest (food); (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process
- (idiom) to replace; to supersede; to take its (or her etc) place
- to wash out; (fig.) to cull; to weed out; to eliminate; to die out; to phase out
- original; former
- space; site; place; sports pitch
- to change shape in a single shake; fig. to take on a new lease of life
- everything clear and orderly (idiom); neat and tidy
- knowledge; CL:門|门[men2]; intellectual
- commodity; goods; merchandise; CL:件[jian4]
- instrument; apparatus; CL:臺|台[tai2]
- full stop; period (punct.)
- size; dimensions; measurements (esp. of clothes); (coll.) propriety
- to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration); to turn back the clock; neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文; retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)
- briefcase; attaché case
- dexterous; deft; easy; light and easy to use; nimble; agile; lithe; graceful
- to load; to stow
- library; CL:家[jia1],個|个[ge4]
- everything that should be here is here (idiom); all one can think of is on hand; to have all one needs
- to expend a great deal of effort
- furniture; CL:件[jian4],套[tao4]
- 机制 jī zhì: 机制 ji1 zhi4: mechanism机制 jī zhì: 机制 ji1 zhi4: machine-processed; machine-made
- to output; to deliver (energy, data, signals etc); to export (goods, services, technology etc)
- accurate; precise