- ash gray; vast and hazy; flourishing
- careful; thorough; meticulous
- dummy run; to run through sth; to rehearse
- Iron Curtain (1945-1991) (In Taiwan, the word was used to refer to both the Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain.)
- to store; to deposit
- in a panic; flurried
- to collide; collision
- matters; arrangements
- department head; section chief
- to have met once; casual acquaintance
- communication; social intercourse
- immeasurably self-satisfied
- vehement; fervent; generous; magnanimous
- heart; mind; ambition; aspiration
- face; features; appearance; look
- vanity
- to play yabao (a gambling game); (fig.) to gamble on; to take one's chance; to try one's luck
- to mortgage; to pawn; to detain in custody; to escort and protect; (literary) to sign
- general; generality
- safe and sound; well
- market; city; municipality (administrative unit); (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods
- to serve in the army
- to check again; to re-examine
- to sign up; to enter one's name; to apply; to register; to enroll; to enlist
- (idiom) so that's how it is; I see
- to have a prior engagement
- to conduct; to hold (an event)
- art exhibition
- co-worker; collaborator; also collaborator with the enemy
- to postpone; to put off; to defer
- see 乾脆利落|干脆利落[gan1 cui4 li4 luo5]
- to evade; to dodge (out of the way)
- to do things in a strictly businesslike manner (idiom)
- flexible; to accommodate; to stretch or get around regulations; a short-term loan
- unyielding; indomitable