- ending; coda; to wind up
- (idiom) strike first to gain the upper hand
- to start; to put one's hand to; to set about; the seat to the right of the main guest
- to suffer a calamity
- financial crisis
- (idiom) criminal ringleader; main offender; main culprit; main cause of a disaster
- wide; broad; extensive; widespread
- early; morning; Good morning!; long ago; prematurely
- several years; many years
- to warn; to admonish
- engineering
- contract; agreement; CL:份[fen4]
- to appoint; to assign; to indicate clearly and with certainty; designated
- to give rise to; to derive; derivative; derivation
- contract; agreement; CL:份[fen4]
- systematic
- foresight
- not only
- result; effect; efficacy; (theater) sound or visual effects
- financial institution; banking institution
- twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky; knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties
- each other; mutual
- to be related; to be connected; relationship; connection
- to crisscross; to intertwine
- in case (sth happens); if; once (sth happens, then...); when; in a short time; in one day
- (zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc); (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc
- dominoes
- type; form; pattern; style
- (physics) chain reaction; (idiom) chain reaction; series of events each caused by the previous one
- destructive
- has its origins in
- very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic; (coll.) very; extremely
- disaster; calamity
- to loathe; to hate; disgusted with sth
- unexpectedly; to one's surprise
- staunch; strong
- fort
- position; status; place; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to encroach on; to infringe on
- to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc); to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc); (of two or more things) interchangeable
- to bear; to endure
- to suffer; to torture; to torment; ordeal; suffering; torture; torment
- pain; suffering; painful; CL:個|个[ge4]
- immediately; instant; instantly
- to take over (duties etc); catcher (baseball etc)