- lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom); fig. overwhelming; earth-shattering; in a spectacular mess
- to bluff; to bluster; to intimidate
- to pass over; to skip
- real estate; landed estate; landed property
- to alter; to modify; to change; to tamper
- decimal point
- 100 million
- to fight in one place after another
- cream; elite; essence; quintessence
- related by marriage; to connect by marriage (families, work units)
- tangled and complicated (idiom)
- to add the finishing touch (abbr. for 畫龍點睛|画龙点睛[hua4 long2 dian3 jing1])
- sensationalism; vulgar claptrap to please the crowds; playing to the gallery; demagogy
- to listen attentively
- noble and virtuous; aloof from politics and material pursuits
- (idiom) to harbor evil designs; to harbor malicious intentions
- reliable; secure; stable; firm
- tree leaves
- to ask sb a question; question
- to look squarely at; to look straight ahead; (instrumentation) heads-up (display)
- ahead; the front
- to sympathize with; sympathy
- to pawn; pawnshop
- to sell cheaply; sacrifice; low price; discount sale
- to drift; to wave; to float on the waves; to flutter in the wind
- to fight corruption and advocate probity
- (banking) to overdraw; to take out an overdraft; an overdraft; to overspend (i.e. expenditure in excess of revenue); (old) to draw one's wage in advance; (fig.) to exhaust (one's enthusiasm, energy etc); to damage a natural resource through overuse
- a small part; a small section
- profiteer; crooked merchant
- brimming over with talent (esp. literary); brilliant
- very capable person; precious object
- to die young or prematurely; to come to a premature end; to be aborted prematurely
- Qincheng Prison, maximum-security prison located about 30 km north of central Beijing, whose inmates include former high-level officials convicted of corruption