- to swallow; to engulf; to gobble up
- to digest (food); (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process
- nemesis; bane; fated to be ill-matched
- to estimate; to surmise; to appraise
- efficient; highly effective
- sampling
- antique; old relic; (fig.) old-fashioned person or thing; old fogey
- 水 Shǔi: 水 Shui3: surname Shui; Shui ethnic group水 shǔi: 水 shui3: water; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4 shui3] and 水性[shui3 xing4]); (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy; (bound form) additional cost; extra income; classifier for washings of a garment
- the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism); the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放|大鸣大放[da4 ming2 da4 fang4], 大辯論|大辩论[da4 bian4 lun4], 大字報|大字报[da4 zi4 bao4] (PRC)
- element (key component of sth); (chemistry) element; (math.) element (member of a set)
- wind; news; style; custom; manner; CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1]
- India
- interest (desire to know about sth); interest (thing in which one is interested); hobby
- matter; substance; material; materialistic; CL:個|个[ge4]
- hard; strong; solid; sure; assuredly; undoubtedly; of course; indeed; admittedly
- nature; character; property; quality; attribute; sexuality; sex; gender; suffix forming adjective from verb; suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity; essence; CL:個|个[ge4]
- moist; wet
- opposite; contrary
- namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near
- certainly; must; will; necessarily
- slow; unhurried; sluggish; gradual; not tense; relaxed; to postpone; to defer; to stall; to stave off; to revive; to recuperate
- 教 Jiào: 教 Jiao4: surname Jiao教 jiāo: 教 jiao1: to teach; to instruct教 jiào: 教 jiao4: (bound form) to teach; to instruct; a religion; to cause (sb to do sth); to tell (sb to do sth)
- material; stuff; grain; feed; to expect; to anticipate; to guess
- in a daze; bewildered
- close; similar to
- to help; to assist
- intensity and spread of a fire
- to melt (of ice, metals etc)
- hydroelectric power
- to become shaped; to become formed
- to check and balance (power); checks and balances
- water vapor; steam; moisture
- waters; body of water
- to weaken; to impair; to cripple
- to gather; to collect; to harvest
- meeting room; conference room
- eyebrow; upper margin
- to sigh; to heave a sigh
- detailed; in detail; minute
- to discuss; to bring up various ideas for discussion
- this; these
- before that; beforehand; previously
- (idiom) appropriate; apt; just right