- platform; podium; rostrum; lectern; (teacher's) desk
- to concede; to admit defeat
- to lower a flag; to strike the colors
- qualifications; seniority
- to present; to give; to hand over; to hand in; to lay before
- (written) resignation
- to inform; to report; to make known; report; speech; talk; lecture; CL:篇[pian1],份[fen4],個|个[ge4],通[tong4]
- (of a person) upright; respectable; decent; (Tw) (of a business etc) reputable
- to sink down to; to be reduced to (sth inferior)
- kowtow
- Vietnam
- southern part
- old term; old way of referring to sth
- New York City
- Manhattan island; Manhattan borough of New York City
- name (of a thing); name (of an organization)
- three of a kind (poker)
- to link up; to thread together
- to turn a corner; corner
- beef
- to sell; to market; sales (representative, agreement etc)
- agreement; pact; protocol; CL:項|项[xiang4]
- disturbance; crisis; disputes; restlessness; CL:場|场[chang2]
- very small; very little; scant; minimal
- (literary) to wade across a body of water; (bound form) to experience; to undergo; to be involved; to concern
- to arouse; to evoke; to cause; to stir up
- greatest; most important
- public outrage
- Europe and America; the West
- to prattle on self-importantly (idiom)
- brief and to the point (idiom); succinct
- whole nation; nationwide; countrywide; national
- the people
- to declare; to aver; to state formally
- that level or lower; that amount or less; the following
- to outline; to summarize; to sketch; summary; brief description; concise narrative; in a nutshell; briefly
- everything; every matter
- federal government
- government; official (approved or issued by an authority)
- cause; a factor (leading to an effect)
- awn (of cereals); arista (of grain); tip (of a blade); Miscanthus sinensis (type of grass)
- county; (Japan) prefecture
- Rotterdam, port city in the Netherlands