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1 nice to hear

2 worth listening to

1 surface of tire

2 tread (of tire)

1 investment immigration

2 immigrant investor

1 to sequester

2 to seize (assets)

3 to seal up

4 to close down

1 elderly gentleman (respectful)

2 esteemed father

1 Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, "Il Duce", president 1922-1943

1 (vulgar) your mom's a prostitute (from Sichuan pronunciation of 媽賣屄|妈卖屄[ma1 mai4 bi1])

1 Emperor Wenzong of Tang (809-840), reign name of fifteenth Tang emperor 李昂[Li3 Ang2], reigned 827-840

1 to untie

2 (fig.) to ease restrictions

1 to look for

2 to search for

1 body and mind

2 mental and physical

1 China News Service

1 Wall Street, New York

2 by extension, American big business

1 high density

1 Naiman banner or Naiman khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽[Tong1 liao2], Inner Mongolia

1 flourishing and still in the ascendant (idiom); rapidly expanding

2 still growing strong

3 on the up

1 no less than

2 not inferior to

1 Hanyang district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市[Wu3 han4 shi4], Hubei

1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)

1 to snub

2 to consign to the trash heap of history