of; ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute) / (used to form a nominal expression) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs

there still remain(s); there is (or are) still / in addition

we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to) / (dialect) I or me / (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you / also pr. [za2 men5]

exhausting / hard / tough / arduous / to work hard / to go to a lot of trouble / hardship(s)

road condition(s) (e.g. surface, traffic flow etc)

to get one’s courage up / to embolden

recent year(s)

brother(s) and sister(s)

(bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things)

lit. seek but fail to get (idiom); fig. exactly what one’s been looking for

taste bud(s)

to speak plainly; to speak one’s mind; to say directly

Bugatti (name) / Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. (French car company)

(Japanese) high school girl’s uniform

to hope / to expect / expectation(s)

microsecond, µs, 10^-6 s

the front piece(s) of a Chinese jacket / lapel

father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch

Narnia, children's fantasy world in stories by C.S. Lewis

lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life / to have great hopes for one's offspring / to give one's child the best education as a career investment

circumstance(s) encountered in one's life (favorable or otherwise) / stroke of luck / opportunity

S-shaped / serpentine / coiled like a snake

words written on one’s deathbed / an artist's final work / swansong

in the newspaper(s)

a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子 may be pronounced as its synonym 色子, and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩｜两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀｜音读. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)

reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀｜训读. For example, 山 has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)

variant of 尚方劍｜尚方剑 / imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers) / in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license to kill

to use the tip of another person’s lit cigarette to light one's own

pro-U.S.

femtosecond, fs, 10^-15 s

nanosecond, ns, 10^-9 s (PRC) / Taiwan equivalent: 奈秒

Jöchi (c. 1182-1227) Mongol army commander, eldest of Genghis Khan’s four sons

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), English poet

open system(s)

signature dish / a restaurant’s most famous dish

(neologism c. 2012) (interjection of encouragement) Let’s do this! / Come on, you can do this!

ankylosing spondylitis / Bechterew’s disease

alveolar / consonants z, c, s produced with the tip of the tongue on the alveolar ridge

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate

arms race / armament(s) race

exception(s)

Banco Delta Asia S.A.R.L., Macau

P.S. / postscript

“Methods of Sima”, also called “Sima Rangju’s Art of War”, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书, written by Sima Rangju 司馬穰苴｜司马穰苴

(U.S.) Peace Corps

the straw that broke the camel’s back (idiom) / the final straw

nanosecond, ns, 10^-9 s (Tw) / PRC equivalent: 納秒｜纳秒

imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers) / in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license to kill

alveolar / consonants z, c, s produced with the tip of the tongue on the alveolar ridge

(Tw) a barcode presented at checkout, used to electronically save the receipt 統一發票｜统一发票 to the customer’s cloud account

lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom) / fig. A is far richer (or more powerful) than B / (used in a pattern such as A拔根汗毛比B的腰粗)

to put oneself in sb else’s shoes

to wipe one’s ass / (fig.) (coll.) to clean up sb else's mess

Standard and Poor's (S&P), company specializing in financial market ratings / S&P financial index

Mao Zedong’s birthday, December 26th

S.D. Poisson (1781-1840), French mathematician / also pr. [Po1 song1]

picosecond, ps, 10^-12 s

The Chronicles of Narnia, children's stories by C.S. Lewis

military strength / military force(s)

double-stamen orchid (Diplandrorchis sinica S.C. Chen), an endangered species

complement of a set S (math.) / the set of all x not in set S