Chinese cooking; Chinese food
gold (Au); golden (color); valuable; of highest value; money; gold coin; Friday
tower; tall building; turret; lookout; (arch.) brothel
to plan; to attempt; to plot; to conspire; to aim for; to strive for
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal
high class; high grade; high rank; seniority
certified (as genuine, valuable, etc.); guaranteed (article); of established reputation; acknowledged; pièce de résistance
in addition; furthermore; above (which); on top of (which)
brilliance; polish; lustre; luster; glossy finish (of photographs)
therefore; consequently; accordingly; for that reason
coincident with; while; simultaneously
elder brother; one's senior; older man; man older than oneself
television; TV; TV program; TV programme; TV broadcast
tree sparrow (Passer montanus); talkative person; knowledgeable person
swallow's nest; swift's nest (used to make bird's nest soup)
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
shopping district; shopping street; downtown
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
swallow (bird of the Hirundinidae family); martin; barn swallow (Hirundo rustica); younger man involved with an older woman; boy toy
rock; boulder; crag; cliff; anchor
marine plant; seagrass; seaweed
to put back; to return; to vomit; to throw up; to recover (of a market price)
to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed
showy; loud; gay; flashy; gaudy
shirt (undergarment); undershirt; singlet; shirt (outerwear; usu. with collar and buttons)
underling; person of low standing; grunt; petty (work, official, etc.); minor; lowly
close fitting trousers; working trousers; long johns; long underpants
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
organization; organisation; structure; construction; system (e.g. railroad, transport, party, etc.); tissue; texture (of a rock)
belonging to (a group, organization, etc.); affiliation (with); being attached to; being under the control of
buying up plots of land by force to resell at a large profit; land sharking; raising the ground level (with fill)