- mirror; lens
- 摆 bǎi: 摆 bai3: to arrange; to exhibit; to move to and fro; a pendulum摆 bǎi: 摆 bai3: hem (at the bottom of a garment)
- shelf for goods; shop shelf
- to write; to compose; writing; written works
- to scatter; to disperse; to distribute
- 买卖 mǎi mài: 买卖 mai3 mai4: to buy and sell买卖 mǎi mai: 买卖 mai3 mai5: purchase and sale; transaction; shop; store
- a period of time in the recent past; (indicating a period of time up to the present) all along; the whole time
- 好事 hào shì: 好事 hao4 shi4: to be meddlesome好事 hǎo shì: 好事 hao3 shi4: good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity; happy occasion; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead
- to waste; to squander
- lit. grass stirring in the wind (idiom); fig. the slightest whiff of trouble
- indirect
- ache; pain; sorrow; deeply; thoroughly
- overall trend
- hard to solve; hard to dispel; hard to understand; hard to undo
- to join forces; concerted effort; (physics) resultant force
- disaster; calamity
- to rebuild; to reconstruct; to reestablish
- to suffer; to sustain (loss, misfortune)
- city resident; townspeople
- millions of people all of one mind (idiom); the people united
- compatriots (literary); fellow countrymen
- numerous
- for a long time now; long since
- 说法 shūo fa: 说法 shuo1 fa5: way of speaking; wording; formulation; one's version (of events); statement; theory; hypothesis; interpretation说法 shūo fǎ: 说法 shuo1 fa3: to expound Buddhist teachings
- attractive force (such as gravitation); sex appeal; attractiveness
- to strengthen; to build up; to grow strong and large
- to jump out; fig. to appear suddenly
- to have one's eyes on (a goal); having sth in mind; to concentrate
- loss; depletion; wastage; wear and tear; to incur loss; to waste; to consume (energy etc); (in engineering) loss (of energy, signal strength etc)
- financial resources
- fiscal year; financial year
- gross income
- (used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ...
- to improve (sth); to reform (a system)
- foodstuff; food; provisions
- to appoint (to a position); appointed
- to promote to a higher job; to select for promotion
- to look forward to; to await; expectation
- evidence; proof; testimony
- profound; abstruse; recondite; profoundly