- to sign up; to enter one's name; to apply; to register; to enroll; to enlist
- quota; number of places; place (in an institution, a group etc)
- (coll.) can't do anything about it; (coll.) there's no way that ...; it's simply not credible that ...; (coll.) couldn't be (better) (i.e. simply wonderful)
- to leak; to divulge; to leave out by mistake; waterclock or hourglass (old)
- (idiom) to digress from the topic of discussion
- option; alternative; choice; to choose a project
- to underestimate; to underrate
- to have a try
- oil; petroleum
- oil field
- to extract (ore or other resource from a mine); to exploit; to mine
- to migrate; to move to a new place of residence
- barren; infertile; poor
- what kind?; how, what; somewhat
- great ambition; lofty aspiration
- hardships; arduous; difficult
- youth; youthfulness
- lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom); fig. scene of devastation; ruins
- dust; dirt; earth
- here and now; as things stand
- ruins
- to hollow out; to empty out; to use up; (finance) tunneling
- to condense; to coagulate; coacervation (i.e. form tiny droplets); aggregation; coherent
- public cemetery
- high and low; uneven (in height); uneven (of ground)
- grave mound
- erect; towering; to stand tall
- monument
- Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
- eternal glory; will never be forgotten
- stele; stone tablet (for inscription); CL:方[fang1]
- square meter
- honeycomb; beehive
- celestial body (e.g. planet, satellite etc); heavenly body
- to tie; bind or fasten together; to kidnap
- to submit (a report etc); to refer (a problem) to sb
- luxurious; extravagant