Dictionary

brand new house; bridal chamber

to bear the weight; to sustain

rate of work; power (output)

nationalized; public; government owned

by chance; by coincidence; to happen to

to be deficient in; lapse; deficiency

orangutan; (slang) dialect speaker whose speech is corrupted by Standard Mandarin

to replace; alternately; in turn

price level

convergence; to come together

to write; to compose

to drain (by leading off water); to unburden oneself; to divulge

to take up one's post; to go on duty; to take up a job

(banking) to overdraw; to take out an overdraft; an overdraft

the same year

exhibition; show

to revise

liquid crystal

supplementary; incidentally; in parentheses

bandit

developer (of real estate, a commercial product etc)

to optimize; (corporate euphemism) to lay off staff

feng shui; geomancy

a torment; a trial; tribulation

to survive (a disaster)

farm crop

and even; to go so far as to

to beg; to go begging

theatrical troupe

transnational; multinational

mountain road

to pass on (to future generations); passed on (from former times); a continued tradition

tired; exhausted; worn out

criminal law

hole; opening; cut

constitution; (a person's) constitution; underlying physical condition; physical makeup; (of an organization, society etc) structural soundness

to tease; to make fun of

child; the younger generation

richly colorful

hobby; indulgence; habit

along the sides of the road; by the wayside

to replay; to rerun; (agriculture) to reseed

to waken (to action); to rouse (the masses); to evoke (attention, recollection etc)

Catholicism

place; destination

frenetic; hurried

merit; efficacy; competence

chinaware; porcelain; china

to become hot; temperature rise; (fig.) to intensify

to become rich