- question; interrogation; doubt
- anti-terrorism; to fight against terrorism
- to clear away; to eliminate; to get rid of
- one's native country; native; local; metropolitan territory
- terrorist organization
- ringleader; gang leader; chieftain
- to start a war; to make war; to battle against
- treatment; pay; salary; status; rank
- to witness personally
- (of beasts of prey, torrents of water, a person in a rage etc) to roar
- outer appearance; form; shape; formality; CL:個|个[ge4]
- bare; naked; (fig.) plain; undisguised; unadorned
- to intertwine; to band together (with); to link up (with); twisted; tangled; confused; to be at a loss; to struggle (mentally) with (sth); to overthink; to feel conflicted
- ally
- conceited; to take responsibility
- then (as in "the then chairman")
- Bush (name); George H.W. Bush (1924-2018), US president 1988-1992; George W. Bush (1946-), US President 2000-2008
- the Taliban, Islamist organization that emerged in the mid-1990s in Afghanistan
- to shelter; to protect; to provide refuge; (law) asylum
- to invade
- information; intelligence
- to suppose; to presume; to assume; supposing that ...; if; hypothesis; conjecture
- to drape over one's shoulders; to open; to unroll; to split open; to spread out
- to obey (an order); to comply; to defer
- to transmit to lower levels; to issue (a command, decree etc)
- should; ought
- carat (mass) (loanword)
- old friend; (slang) period; menstruation
- Washington Post (newspaper)
- senior; highly experienced; veteran
- footprint; track; spoor
- to extend (everywhere)
- chief editor (of newspaper); abbr. for 總編輯|总编辑
- to reminisce; to talk about former times
- (speak) without thinking the matter through
- 凯 Kǎi: 凯 Kai3: surname Kai凯 kǎi: 凯 kai3: (bound form) triumphal music; (Tw) (coll.) generous with money; lavish in spending; chi (Greek letter Χχ)