Vocabulary: 最重要的合伙人，往后退一步的合伙人
- (pronoun) this; (adjective) this
- everyone; influential family; great expert
- to play a joke; to make fun of; to joke
- to reply; to answer; reply; answer
- question; problem; issue; topic; CL:個|个[ge4]
- quiet; peaceful; calm
- 地 de: 地 de5: -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct地 dì: 地 di4: earth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]
- 坐 Zùo: 坐 Zuo4: surname Zuo坐 zùo: 坐 zuo4: to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc); to bear fruit
- side; adjacent place
- 听 yǐn: 听 yin3: smile (archaic)听 tīng: 听 ting1: to listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin"); classifier for canned beverages; to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]); (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
- face; CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]
- to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead; to be worried; to be concerned; (dialect) to make a phone call; to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor); (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam); classifier for sets or clusters of objects
- 着 zháo: 着 zhao2: to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in着 zhāo: 着 zhao1: a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to add着 zhe: 着 zhe5: aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state着 zhúo: 着 zhuo2: to wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to apply
- to laugh; to smile; to laugh at
- again; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time; (before an adjective) more; then (after sth, and not until then); no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis); (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4 ze2], 再就是[zai4 jiu4 shi4] etc); (literary) to reappear; to reoccur
- to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist
- to depart; to leave
- rare; seldom seen; (formal) it's a rare pleasure to see you
- right; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding; to treat (sb a certain way); to face; (bound form) opposite; facing; matching; to match together; to adjust; to fit; to suit; to answer; to reply; to add; to pour in (a fluid); to check; to compare; classifier: couple; pair
- Forbes (US publisher); Forbes magazine
- magazine; CL:本[ben3],份[fen4],期[qi1]
- 说 shūo: 说 shuo1: to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine说 shùi: 说 shui4: to persuade
- before; formerly; previous; ago
- lawyer
- to understand; to know; to comprehend
- how; what way; what
- to set up; to establish
- company; firm; corporation; CL:家[jia1]
- and; besides; moreover; furthermore; in addition
- 能 Néng: 能 Neng2: surname Neng能 néng: 能 neng2: can; to be able to; might possibly; ability; (physics) energy
- assistance; aid; to help; to assist
- to collect money; to raise funds
- capital (economics)
- to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5]
- oneself; (attributive) one's own
- to have; to possess; to own
- haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be
- knowledge; CL:門|门[men2]; intellectual
- therefore; as a result; so; the reason why
- they; them
- that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc); (euph.) menstruation; sex; also pr. [nei4 ge5]
- respect; aspect; field; side; CL:個|个[ge4]
- very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- to trust; to have confidence in
- to be good at; to be expert in
- world
- to feel; to sense; to perceive
- very; really; unusual; extraordinary