- double chin
- convict; prisoner; criminal
- treatment; pay; salary; status; rank
- reception (of transmitted signal); to receive; to accept; to admit; to take over (e.g. a factory); to expropriate
- risk to one's life
- tough; unyielding; hard-line
- to assert; to insist that
- best man (in a marriage)
- just before the battle; to approach the front line
- understood by everyone (idiom); well known; a household name
- McDonald's (fast food company)
- to turn to (sth else); to switch to
- top of streets, bottom of alleys (idiom); everywhere in the city
- to use up; to exhaust; to probe to the bottom; limit; end
- gall bladder; courage; guts; gall; inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)
- thus
- to get angry
- handbag; bag; valise
- unspoken dialogue in a play, left for the audience to infer; subtext; (fig.) implicit assertion
- corruption; to corrupt; to rot; rotten
- inescapable net (idiom); trap; dragnet
- amendment; revised draft
- reward; prize; award
- luckily; by a fluke
- (idiom) to talk big; to sound off; to be full of hot air
- imperialism
- base; mean; contemptible; despicable
- eldest of father's younger brothers; uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father)
- implication
- handwritten copy of a book
- Left Bank (in Paris)
- hotel guest; tenant
- lit. proper behavior is based on reciprocity (idiom); fig. to return politeness for politeness
- apparently right but actually wrong; specious (idiom)
- prudent; cautious
- ringleader; gang leader; chieftain
- to carry (on one's person); to support (old); Taiwan pr. [xi1 dai4]