Dictionary

provincial capital

a musical score; sheet music

to cut the ribbon (at a launching or opening ceremony)

third in a race; bronze medalist

routine; everyday business; daily operation (of a company)

precipitous

to treat sb unfairly

to investigate; dialectical

variant of 贤慧; variant of 賢慧|贤慧[xian2 hui4]

to mourn; to pay last respects

complacent; self-satisfied

club; staff; stick

to hesitate; (literary) to pace back and forth; (literary) self-satisfied

tall and straight

impoverished; lacking; deficient

to live in peace and work happily (idiom)

to brook no delay; to demand immediate action

to stir up trouble; to invite disaster

good quality and cheap; a bargain

survival of the fittest (idiom)

one move, two gains (idiom); two birds with one stone; lit. one action, two gains (idiom); fig. two birds with one stone

money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve

key information; instructions; it must be borne in mind

deaf and dumb; deaf and nonverbal

clever; witty; intelligent

bold; open-minded; heroic

motivation; ambition

qigong, a traditional Chinese system of cultivating vital energy 气 through coordinated breathing, movement and meditation; qigong, a traditional Chinese system of cultivating vital energy 氣|气[qi4] through coordinated breathing, movement and meditation

extroverted (personality); (economics etc) export-oriented

husband's parents; parents-in-law

to grow (usually of abstract things); to yield; to develop

pavilion

rare and precious; valuable; remarkable

substandard products; defective; seconds

spellbound; entranced; lost in thought

short in time; fleeting; brief

unhusked rice; paddy

successive years; over many years

to raise animals

an overall plan taking into account all factors

a heavy load and a long road; fig. to bear heavy responsibilities through a long struggle (cf Confucian Analects, 8.7)

Islamic; Muslim; halal (of food)

copper mine; copper ore

would rather...; it would be better...; would prefer

to leak (information, secrets etc); to smuggle and evade tax; to suffer shrinkage (partial loss of goods due to theft etc)

screw

intentional; deliberate; on purpose

lit. to chop the nail and slice the iron (idiom); fig. resolute and decisive; unhesitating; categorical

family love and joy; domestic bliss

jet-black; dark