- to serve as; to act as; to play the role of
- guests feel at home (in a hotel, guest house etc); a home away from home
- feeling; impression; sensation; to feel; to perceive
- to consult; to discuss seriously; to negotiate; to confer; negotiations; consultations
- concise; brief
- to restart (a machine etc); to reactivate (a postponed project etc)
- famous; well-known
- duke; dukedom
- (of personnel or positions) having permanent status under China's official staffing system 編制|编制[bian1 zhi4], with full benefits and job security
- office worker; staff member; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- to withdraw (money)
- scanty; meager
- allowance
- almost; nearly
- to provide assistance; to aid
- to receive orders; to follow orders; to act under orders
- to take a walk; to go for a walk
- repeatedly; over and over; to upend; unstable; to come and go; (of an illness) to return
- colleague; coworker
- book; booklet; classifier for books
- to annotate; to add marginal comments on; criticism; marginalia
- Moments (social networking function of smartphone app WeChat 微信[Wei1 xin4])
- Gloucester city in southwest England
- 废 fèi: 废 fei4: to abolish; to abandon; to abrogate; to discard; to depose; to oust; crippled; abandoned; waste废 fèi: 废 fei4: disabled
- 伯 bǎi: 伯 bai3: one hundred (old)伯 bó: 伯 bo2: father's elder brother; senior; paternal elder uncle; eldest of brothers; respectful form of address; Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- (Tw) Volkswagen (car manufacturer); Fox Entertainment Group
- Boole (surname); (math.) Boolean
- to ask about; to make some inquiries; to ask around
- to listen attentively
- magnificence; magnificent; majestic; glorious
- blueprint
- investment; to invest
- group; organization; team; CL:個|个[ge4]
- generally speaking; to sum up; in summary; in short
- member
- Alexandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837), great Russian romantic poet