- middle (of a period of time); medium-term (plan, forecast etc)
- in the years of; during those years; period (of dynasty or decade)
- to found; to create
- public finance; government finance
- to go bankrupt; to become impoverished; bankruptcy
- maxim
- excessive
- the whole world; worldwide; global
- marketplace; market; bazaar; (economics) market
- to obstruct; to hinder; to block; obstruction; hindrance
- to grow; to increase
- many times; on more than one occasion
- on the edge of; (fig.) on the verge of; close to
- to collapse; to crumble; to fall apart
- to take a wrong step in life (idiom); to go astray
- motherland; home country
- depressed; resentful; discontented; indignant; perturbed
- to intensify
- modern history (in Chinese historiography, from the Opium Wars to the fall of the Qing dynasty)
- precedent
- opportunity to live; hope of success; vigor; vitality
- an economy; a country (or region etc) viewed as an economic entity
- to submit; to yield; to bow to sb's will
- well-developed; flourishing; to develop; to promote; to expand; (literary) to achieve fame and fortune; to prosper
- just as; precisely as
- to predict; prophecy
- vassal; dependent; subordinate; subservient; appendage
- industry
- development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand
- factory; CL:家[jia1],座[zuo4]
- to ignore; to disregard
- modernization; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to strongly defend one's position; to be entrenched; to cling to
- first; original; primitive; original (document etc)
- foundation
- Bourbon
- (conjunction linking two nouns) and its ...; and their ...; and his ...; and her ...
- pressure
- infrastructure
- to have difficulty walking (idiom); to walk with difficulty
- to try (to see what it's like or whether one can do it)
- to grab hold of; to capture
- 东西 dōng xī: 东西 dong1 xi1: east and west东西 dōng xi: 东西 dong1 xi5: thing; stuff; person; CL:個|个[ge4],件[jian4]