to get; to secure; to learn; to master; to complete
to be born and raised (in); to be born and brought up; to be born and bred
time; hour; period; class
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively
before very long; soon; someday; of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them
transit (passenger); connecting (flight); transfer (ticket)
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
national border; provincial border
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China in 300-500 CE: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)
to breathe out; to breathe; to tell (a lie); to use (foul language); to vomit; to throw up
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
district; region; the country; countryside; civilian society
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
welfare; well-being; social welfare; social security; social service
car; automobile; motorcar; motor vehicle; auto
license; permit; licence; certificate
job hunting; job searching
very; extremely; terrible; horrid; remarkable; extraordinary
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
interview (e.g. for a job)
to arrive at (after a struggle); to finally reach; to find one's way to; to finally hit on (e.g. an idea)
interviewer (for job, school, etc. interviews)
to ask; to enquire; to query
book; volume; this; present; main; head
tightly (packed); densely; closely; crammed
to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.); to be blocked (road, pipe, nose, etc.); to be clogged; to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to be at a loss
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
disorder; chaos; confusion
the vertical; height; front-to-back; length; north-to-south; vertical (relationship)
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty
crevice; crack; spare moment; interval; chink (in one's armor, armour); unpreparedness
even; (if) only; just; besides; on top of that
to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends