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1 original

1 lit. to put a fire under a pile of firewood (idiom)

2 fig. hidden danger

3 imminent danger

1 secretary-general

1 lecithin (phospholipid found in egg yolk)

1 social democracy

1 to hold the rudder

2 to hold (to take, to be at) the helm

3 to steer

1 diastolic blood pressure

1 to temper (iron)

2 to flare back

3 flareback (in a gas burner)

4 (of an engine) to backfire

1 female taxi driver

1 specter

2 apparition

3 ghost

1 exogenous

1 to economize on clothes and food

2 to scrimp and save (idiom)

1 prolonged war

2 war of attrition

1 Bourbon

1 to retreat

2 to withdraw troops

3 to recall troops

4 fig. to finish work

5 to wind up

6 to call it a day

7 used with negatives: the task is far from over

1 to endure

2 may

3 can

1 to hold

2 to seize

3 to catch

4 to apprehend

5 to take

6 (used in the same way as 把[bǎ]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)

1 general shareholders' meeting

1 cemetery

1 Eastern and Western culture