- to overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush; to try to catch (the bus etc); to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away; to avail oneself of (an opportunity); until; by (a certain time)
- urgent; pressing; rapid; hurried; worried; to make (sb) anxious
- to be willing to part with sth
- at the same time; meanwhile
- abbreviation; to abridge
- to pay a visit
- 艾 ài: 艾 ai4: Chinese mugwort (Artemisia); moxa; used in transliteration艾 ài: 艾 Ai4: surname Ai
- wind; news; style; custom; manner; CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1]
- eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]); (often used with 一[yi1]) a look; a glance; small hole; (bound form) salient point; classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc
- wall (CL:面[mian4],堵[du3]); (slang) to block (a website) (usu. in the passive: 被牆|被墙[bei4 qiang2])
- strong wind; gale
- Houston, Texas
- city center; downtown
- to lift open; to tear open
- vegetarian food; to eat a vegetarian diet
- to destroy
- shop owner
- scholar; Confucian
- roof tile; abbr. for 瓦特[wa3 te4]
- landlord
- to phone sb up
- carried within a vehicle; onboard
- speaker
- to transmit outwards; to disseminate; efferent (nerve)
- 春 Chūn: 春 Chun1: surname Chun春 chūn: 春 chun1: spring (season); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life
- concrete; specific; detailed
- 调制 tiáo zhì: 调制 tiao2 zhi4: to modulate; modulation调制 tiáo zhì: 调制 tiao2 zhi4: to concoct by mixing ingredients; to prepare according to a recipe; to make (a salad, a cocktail, cosmetics etc)
- rarely known to anyone (idiom); almost unknown; secret to all but a few
- debtor
- to pay back
- how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things?
- to keep accounts; to do bookkeeping; to charge to an account
- to help; to support; to aid; aid; assistance
- debtor
- to stand as a goalkeeper; to keep guard on a gate
- a hundred percent; out and out; absolutely
- to pass on to
- to use for the purpose of; to serve as
- to provide (an asset) as security for a loan; to put up collateral
- average; on average; evenly; in equal proportions
- to let off; to give out