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(v./n.) choose; choice

(v.) contend, contest, juggle for

(adj.) blunt, tough, stubborn | (char.) blunt, tough, stubborn (only used in 倔强 or 倔犟)

(adj./adv.) equal, equally, even; (lit.) all, without exception

(n.) officer

(adj.) proportionate, balanced, even

(n.) warship, military vessel

(adj.) smart, handsome; unusually talented

(v.) (of a project) be completed

(n.) steed, noble horse

(adj.) pretty, charming, dainty

(v.) open, set up, establish, found

(v./n.) begin, open, start; beginning of an event

(n.) prologue of play, opening remarks, preamble (of speeches, articles, etc.)

(v.) start, bring into operation, set in motion; to start (eating a meal), to dig in (one's meal)

(n.) Open Economic Zone, development zones

(n.) developer (of real-estate, software, etc.)

(sep-v.) start, begin construction, begin a building project

(v.) reclaim wasteland, bring under cultivated

(idiom.) creation of a new world, dawn of the history; great, heroic, epoch-making

(v.) begin a (judicial) court session

(n.) expenses

(v.) open or start a business

(n.) model, example

(v.) return with triumph, triumphant return

(v.) can be rated as, can be said to be

(v.) look after, attend to, guard; watch

(v.) nurse, look after

(v./n.) guard, watch over; guard, door keeper

(adj.) full of frustrations, rough, bumpy; unsuccessful

(n.) (spectator's) stand, bleachers

(v.) contend against

(v.) resist; oppose, defy, withstand

(n.) antibiotics

(v.) resist, make a stand and fight (against)

(v.) investigate, study, test

(v.) consider, give serious consideration to something

(adj.) demanding, harsh, severe, exigent

(n.) anything small and roundish (as a bean, pearl, etc.), grain

(n.) shell | (char.) shell; hard surface or covering