- head of a (university) department; department chair
- to dream; to have a dream; (fig.) to indulge in wishful thinking
- to play the role of; to act
- for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past
- upward; up; to advance; to try to improve oneself; to make progress
- (idiom) extraordinary
- junior; primary
- title; official rank
- rare; seldom seen; (formal) it's a rare pleasure to see you
- controversy; dispute; to dispute
- to question; to quiz; to grill
- rational; reasonable; sensible; fair
- to owe; to lack; (literary) to be deficient in; (bound form) yawn; to raise slightly (a part of one's body)
- else; other
- way of handling sth; means; measure; (practical) solution to a problem; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- upright; upstanding; honest
- to pay; to expend; to invest (energy or time)
- to draw on (others' experience); to learn from (how others do things); lesson to be learned (by observing others)
- to donate money; to contribute funds; donation; contribution (of money)
- suitable; appropriate
- to solicit contributions; to collect donations
- before; formerly; previous; ago
- to straighten out; to sort out; to organize
- to scatter; to distribute; to be distributed (over an area etc); (statistical, geographic) distribution
- to hold a conversation; to talk over the telephone; phone call
- (idiom) more than enough
- suitable; adequate; ready; settled
- to bring into; to channel into; to integrate into; to incorporate
- to excel the common (idiom); surpassing; preeminent; outstanding
- heavy water (chemistry)
- arts and crafts; industrial arts
- talent; CL:份[fen4]
- previously; before
- to discuss a matter with sb; to get in touch with; to arrange
- to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時|入时[ru4 shi2]); abbr. for 入聲|入声[ru4 sheng1]; (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese 入 "iri")
- to discuss two disparate things together (idiom); to mention on equal terms; to place on a par with; (often with negatives: impossible to mention X in the same breath as Y)
- it is said that; reportedly
- Albert (name)
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born theoretical physicist