Vocabulary

challenging

company management; managing a company

friend's house; home of a friend

sterilant; sterilizer; sterilizing agent

administrative staff; business clerk; clerical force; clerical officer; clerical personnel; clerical staff

black carbon

sense of humiliation

ramp; slope

teatime; tea break; coffee break

housing finance

housing finance

whole nation; entire nation; all the people

multiple tax rate

being deeply in debt; being up to one's ears in debt

near bankruptcy; edge of bankruptcy; bumper-to-bumper

bactericidal action; germicidal action

gown technique (i.e. use of gowns in sterile environments)

foreign company; overseas enterprise; overseas firm

kind person; warmhearted person; sympathetic person

new round of multilateral trade negotiations

masked burglar; masked bandit

robbery; robbery case; burglary

rubber mask

amount of payment; amount paid

inability to follow Buddhist teachings; person unable to follow Buddhist teachings

manufacturing process; production manufacture

environmental testing

skin-side (of a fillet of fish)

visiting one's constituency

continental Europe

tie-up negotiations; tie-up talks

defense outlay; defense spending

two-country model (esp. China and Taiwan); two-country doctrine

China and Taiwan

items for rent; items for loan

artificial hip; hip prosthesis

acetabular roof

acetabular roof

acetabulum; cotyloid cavity

artificial stone; fake rock