- choice of person; candidate
- (idiom) to surrender sth without resistance
- (idiom) to achieve twice the result with half the effort
- to accept a position on a provisional basis, in the absence of better qualified candidates (humble expr.)
- to reserve a seat; to leave a position vacant
- (of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light; (old) wine cup; (coll.) whiting (used in whitewash); (coll.) (neologism, attested by 2020) healthcare worker in a full-body protective suit (from the white robot Baymax in Disney's "Big Hero 6", called "大白" in Chinese)
- large scale program of lasting importance; project of paramount importance; to think big; annual national audit
- to thirst for; to long for
- profitable to both sides; a win-win situation
- major premise
- winding; (fig.) complicated
- perilous; touch-and-go; nerve-racking; suspenseful
- need not; not obliged to; not necessarily
- one step, one footprint (idiom); steady progress; reliable
- to deal with concrete matters; pragmatic
- a revolutionary
- great ambition; lofty aspiration
- ambition; wild schemes; careerism
- to go abroad as ambassador; to be sent on a diplomatic mission
- to bend to a task and spare no effort (idiom); striving to the utmost
- not easy to do sth; difficult; unchanging
- brave; courageous
- source; precursor; forerunner
- to reveal; to display; to show; to exhibit
- fighting strength
- vanguard; pioneer; avant-garde
- lit. to fly one's banner on a solitary tree (idiom); fig. to act as a loner; to stand out; to develop one's own school; to have attitude of one's own
- to glue; glue; gum; rubber
- military doctor
- even if; even though
- law; rule; code
- legitimacy
- full powers; total authority; plenipotentiary powers
- to abdicate