- soap; CL:塊|块[kuai4],條|条[tiao2]
- half; half and half; both ... and ...; just as much ... as ...; equally
- magnanimous; broad and level
- charm or grace (in poetry or art)
- (idiom) to pass off the fake as genuine; to blur the line between fake and real so convincingly that the fake is mistaken for the real thing
- experienced; with ample experience
- to burn; to set on fire
- to emerge; to crop up; a little more than
- to float; to emerge
- to require; to need; to want; necessity; need
- to convey in words
- complete and beautiful; to be perfect (idiom)
- to have all one's wishes (idiom); best wishes; all the best; may all your hopes be fulfilled
- confused; ignorant
- to plot; to scheme; to calculate
- safe period; safe days of a woman's menstrual cycle (low risk of conception)
- oral contraceptive
- to construct; to build
- to stake all on one throw
- far-reaching; broad; ambitious; promising
- loose; slack; (fig.) to soften (policies, tone of voice); to give some slack; (of a place) not crowded
- to establish; to build
- to be refused entrance; to find the door closed
- fighting strength
- (idiom) world-shaking
- gain; profit; to make a profit
- treasure bowl (mythology); fig. source of wealth; cornucopia; gold mine
- idiot
- to pit oneself against sb; to compete with sb; contest; battle; to haggle; to quibble
- Soviet Union, 1922-1991; abbr. for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) 蘇維埃社會主義共和國聯盟|苏维埃社会主义共和国联盟[Su1 wei2 ai1 She4 hui4 zhu3 yi4 Gong4 he2 guo2 Lian2 meng2]
- red star; five pointed star as symbol or communism or proletariat; hot film star
- Ottoman (empire)
- to resign oneself to part with what one treasures