- efficiency
- to get there in one step (idiom); easily done; success at a stroke; to get results overnight
- long-term; long-range
- pressing in on one's eyelashes (idiom); imminent
- to decrease rapidly; to plummet
- western part
- market; city; municipality (administrative unit); (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods
- to cease fire; to stop fighting; armistice; truce
- Tatar (person)
- lit. to behave like a dog wagging its tail, seeking its master's affection (idiom); fig. to fawn on sb; to bow and scrape; to grovel
- rabies
- stick; club; cudgel; maize (corn); ear of maize; corncob; (derog.) Korean
- initiative (as in "seize the initiative"); advantageous position that allows one to call the shots
- the top and bottom of sth; the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom; to go up and down; before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context"); (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so; (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates"); all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation"); relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")
- to defeat; to overpower; to beat; to be defeated
- (idiom) to act without taking time to think; to react instantly; to fire from the hip
- 壮 zhuàng: 壮 zhuang4: to strengthen; strong; robust壮 Zhuàng: 壮 Zhuang4: Zhuang ethnic group, the largest ethnic minority in China
- folk saying; proverb
- to forge ironware
- 须 xū: 须 xu1: must; to have to; to wait须 xū: 须 xu1: beard; mustache; feeler (of an insect etc); tassel
- hard; stiff; solid; (fig.) strong; firm; resolutely; uncompromisingly; laboriously; with great difficulty; good (quality); able (person); (of food) filling; substantial
- strong; sturdy; robust
- common sense; general knowledge
- how about it?; what do you think?
- an established precedent; a convention
- lit. the dragonfly touches the water lightly; superficial contact (idiom)
- interlude; to cross the stage; to do sth as a mere formality; to go through the motions
- to go to the bottom of a matter; after all; when all is said and done; (in an interrogative sentence) finally; outcome; result
- to give one's bare heart into sb else's keeping (idiom); sb has one's absolute confidence; to trust completely; to confide in sb with entire sincerity
- to meet; meeting; conference
- conclusion; verdict; CL:個|个[ge4]; to conclude; to reach a verdict
- that's fine; may as well; (reduplicated) regardless of whether ... or ...
- to begin; to open; to start; beginning of an event
- 铺 pù: 铺 pu4: store铺 pū: 铺 pu1: to spread; to display; to set up; (old) holder for door-knocker铺 pù: 铺 pu4: plank bed; place to sleep; shop; store; (old) relay station
- almost; nearly; more or less; about the same; good enough; not bad
- friend
- 遴 lín: 遴 lin2: (literary) to select遴 Lín: 遴 Lin2: surname Lin
- to be a newcomer; just off the boat
- subtle
- lit. singing of the wind and the moon; fig. vacuous and sentimental (of poetry or art)