HSK 7–9 — Advanced Levels of the New HSK 3.0 (page 91)

(n.) brake; switch | (n./v.) floodgate, sluice; to dam up a stream

(v.) blink, wink

(v.) extract, press; extort, squeeze

(n.) bomb

(n.) explosive, explosive charges, dynamite

(n.) debt, loan

(n.) debt

(v.) to moisten, to wet; to touch; be stained with; to gain by one's association with sb

(v.) divine

(v.) chop, cut

(m.) a measure word for lamp or lantern | (char.) small cup

(v.) toss about, pass through many hands or places

(v.) dip in (liquid, powder or sauce)

(n.) battlefield

(v.) bloom

(v.) stand, arise

(n.) soldier; fighter, warrior, champion

(v.) occupy

(n.) battle companion, comrade-in-arms

(idiom.) decorate (be decorated) with lanterns and streamers

(v.) post (a notice); advertise

(n./v.) Zhang Yang (1967-, PRC film director and screenwriter); publicize, make known, show off

(v.) to steer, take the helm

(n.) rate of rise

(v.) be in charge of, administer

(n.) appearance, features, look

(v.) swell, be bloated; expand, distend

(v.) attract (customers), drum up (trade)

(v.) recruit, enlist

(n.) signboard, shop sign, reputation of a business

(phr.) three in the morning and four in the evening, to play fast and loose, to chop and change

(v.) attract business, invite for investments

(n.) move (in chess, on stage, in martial arts), gambit, trick

(phr.) be together morning and night

(n./v.) cover, shade, hood; overalls, work coat; bamboo fish trap; bamboo chicken coop; to cover, to overspread

(v.) follow the rules, do as instructed, play by the book, comply with a request

(v.) call together, convoke

(adv.) as a rule, as usual

(v.) look after, take care of

(v.) shine, illuminate, light up