- simple; uncomplicated; letter; to choose; to select; bamboo strips used for writing (old)
- miserable; tragic
- to retort; to refute
- recovery; to recover
- to deprive; to expropriate; to strip (sb of his property)
- (physics) to resonate; resonance; sympathetic response
- proposal; motion
- to shut out; to block; to smother
- Hollywood; also pr. [Hao3lai2wu1]
- lit. the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom); fig. the pot calls the kettle black
- doorstep; sill; threshold; fig. knack or trick (esp. scheme to get sth cheaper)
- noisy; clamorous
- hubbub; clamor; to make a racket
- temporary; provisional; for the time being
- forestry station; forest management area
- to collapse; to topple over
- tree
- to press down; to crush down; to restrain (anger); to keep down (voice)
- to bleed; to shed blood
- to lose blood; to hemorrhage; (fig.) to suffer losses (financial etc)
- to blush with shame (literary)
- a saw; CL:把[ba3]
- to give up; to abandon; to abort
- German person or people
- level; almost flat; not strongly sloping; (fig.) moderate; mild-mannered; gentle
- to face squarely; to meet head on; to face up to
- to decline; to fall; to drop; to falter; a decline; recession (in economics)
- to predict; prophecy
- to meet with; to encounter (esp. misfortune or hardship); an experience (esp. adverse)
- wave; tides
- viper
- to select; to choose; to pick over; to pick out; to differentiate; to eliminate; also pr. [zhai2]
- to decide by vote; to vote
- a gleam of hope
- to apply to; to put into (practice etc); to put to (a test, a vote etc)
- tough; unyielding; hard-line
- between; intermediate; to lie between