- to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert a danger (esp. political or medical)
- blueprint; source material on which later works (books, movies etc) are based
- manual; handbook
- general headquarters
- to lead (an animal by the head); to take the lead; to coordinate (a combined operation); to mediate; a go-between (e.g. marriage broker)
- custom; convention; popular; common; coarse; vulgar; secular
- person; figure; public figure
- seminary
- federation
- venerable
- entourage; retinue
- Secretary of State
- Foster or Forster (name); Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864), American composer
- existing
- lit. fluently saying all one wants (idiom); to preach freely on one's favorite topic; to hold forth to one's heart's content
- to transmit to lower levels; to issue (a command, decree etc)
- to act as intermediary; to link; intermediate; inter-; agency; agent
- airplane; CL:架[jia4]
- the day before (an event)
- (of an aircraft or rocket) to take off; to lift off; (fig.) (of an enterprise etc) to start to develop rapidly
- to fly across; to fly over; to fly past; (literary) (of one's spirits) to soar
- ocean; (old) silver dollar; (slang) Chinese yuan
- aviation
- to soar; to wheel about in the sky
- (idiom) from bottom to top; from the grass roots up; bottom-up
- to float; superficial; floating; unstable; movable; provisional; temporary; transient; impetuous; hollow; inflated; to exceed; superfluous; excessive; surplus
- water surface
- a submarine
- place above (it); upper part (of it)
- to flit across; to sweep past; to glance (strike at an angle)
- the blue dome of heaven
- scene; view; sight; landscape; to be well-regarded; to be well-off; grand (dialect); impressive (dialect)
- novel; new; exotic
- Perth, capital of Western Australia
- Halifax (name); Halifax city, capital of Nova Scotia, Canada; Halifax, town in West Yorkshire, England
- professionalism; specialization