- disaster; catastrophe
- sophisticated; advanced (technology etc); meritorious; exemplary (deeds etc)
- optimum; optimal; peak; best (athlete, movie etc)
- partner; companion; comrade
- nuclear industry
- fine; meticulous; careful
- scientist
- nuclear physics
- (idiom) unprecedented in history
- to go against; to be contrary to; to violate
- as; as if; such as
- destruction; damage; to wreck; to break; to destroy
- coincidence; coincidental; to coincide
- to be well aware
- next door; neighbor
- colleague; coworker
- to control
- to take the lead; to show initiative
- to press; to urge; to hasten
- (formal) to apply; to carry out; to take action to (do sth) (used before a disyllabic verb, indicating that the action is directed at sth previously mentioned, e.g. 加以說明|加以说明[jia1 yi3 shuo1 ming2]); to apply (restrictions etc); to give (support, consideration etc); (literary) moreover; in addition
- due to; to stem from; to go beyond (also fig. beyond reason, expectations etc); to go against (expectations)
- to anticipate; to expect; expectations
- to be willing to do sth; to be ready to do sth; to be happy to do sth; content; satisfied
- (mahjong) flush; a complete hand where all tiles are of the same suit; (fig.) uniformly; each and every one
- Mossad
- to compete; competition; match; to surpass; better than; superior to; to excel
- 雷 Léi: 雷 Lei2: surname Lei雷 léi: 雷 lei2: thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[di4 lei2] land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)
- ground troops
- to make an air raid
- bread; CL:片[pian4],塊|块[kuai4]
- (husked) rice
- (economics) to reduce; to curtail; to cut back; to tighten; austerity; tightening; crunch
- to assign; to allocate; to transfer (money to an account)
- academic world; academic circles; academia
- physicist
- to be in a tangle; to nag
- to hit the target and do real damage (idiom); fig. to hit where it hurts; fig. to hit home; an argument that hits the nail on the head
- unexpectedly; to one's surprise; go so far as to
- to attempt vainly; a vain attempt; delusion
- (idiom) not to get involved; to stay out of it