- beach; sandy shore; CL:片[pian4]
- the Grand Canal, 1800 km from Beijing to Hangzhou, built starting from 486 BC
- to combine; to join; unite; alliance
- (of a law, contract, agreement, ban etc) to come into force; to go into effect; to become operative
- (commercial) trade; CL:個|个[ge4]
- mariner; seafarer
- to benefit from; profit
- sluice; water gate; waterlocks; floodgate; lock; dam
- water shortage; dehydration
- labor; laborer
- vast; huge
- perfectly straight; straight as a ramrod; bolt upright
- sediment; deposit; sedimentation (geology)
- silt
- to leak (gas); to be discouraged; to despair; (disparaging) pathetic; to vent one's anger; (of a tire) to be flat
- proposal; recommendation; to draft
- to be connected; traffic; transportation; communications; liaison
- intermediary; vehicle; vector; medium; media
- to decline; to die out; decline and fall
- to lose to (sb); to be outdone by
- internal combustion engine
- to refract; refraction; to reflect (in the figurative sense: to show the nature of)
- example; case in point
- to appear; to emerge; to surface
- seascape; sea view
- to flow
- in front of the door
- Evans; Ivins; Ivens
- to compose; to compile
- extremely
- speed; rate
- to employ workers
- man-hour
- happy; cheerful
- naughty
- wantonly; without restraint (of enemy or malefactor); unbridled
- smile; smiling expression; CL:副[fu4]
- to agree without prior consultation; to happen to hold the same view