- underlayer; lower class; lower strata; substrate
- sluice gate
- open sluice gate; (toll) station; boarding gate (airport etc); (fig.) gateway (access point)
- bulletproof
- terrorist
- (electric) cable
- tubing; pipeline; (fig.) channel; means
- since (a time); ever since
- to transfer; to hand over
- to tear down; to demolish; to dismantle; to remove
- dead end; blind alley
- not show one's feeling or intentions
- (military) offensive
- long-distance
- to take care of (a matter); to get (a task) done; to handle (a project) expeditiously
- to esteem; to respect; to honor; to value; eminent; serious; proper
- the actual situation; the truth
- all one's life
- (bound form) to prepare; to equip; (literary) fully; completely
- heavy responsibility
- nice to meet you
- 标致 biāo zhi: 标致 biao1 zhi5: (of a woman) beautiful; pretty标致 Biāo zhì: 标致 Biao1 zhi4: Peugeot (automobile brand)
- menfolk (collective term for men of different generations); husbands and their fathers etc
- charming eyes; coquettish glances
- shortsighted; nearsighted; myopia
- horse hindquarters; flattery; boot-licking
- to conceal oneself; to go into hiding; to take cover
- valuable; precious; to value; to treasure; to set store by
- sharp; intense; penetrating; pointed; acute (illness)
- to ruminate; to ponder subtleties
- to ridicule; to tease; to mock; idle talk; chitchat
- dusky; overcast (of weather)
- bright and clean; luminous
- steady; calm and collected; not nervous
- nonsense; humbug; bunk; bullshit
- to play with; to engage in; to resort to; to dally with
- hide-and-seek (game); peekaboo (game)
- to become alienated; estranged; alienation; disaffection; set wide apart
- happy to partake but not prepared to do any work (idiom); all take and no give