擦邊球 edge ball, touch ball
擦網球 net ball
采取高姿態 show magnanimity
采取市場多元化戰略 adopt the strategy of a multi-outlet market
“菜籃子”工程 the "shopping basket' project (program)
參政、議政 participate in the management of State affairs
滄海桑田 Seas change into mulberry fields and mulberry fields change into seas--time brings great changes to the world.
What was once the sea has now changed into mulberry fields--the world is changing all the time.
倉儲式超市 stockroom-style supermarket
草根工業 grass root industry (refers to village and township enterprises which take root among farmers and grow like wold grass)
層層轉包和違法分保 multi-level contracting and illegal sub-contracting
差額投票 differential voting
差額選舉 competitive election
茶道 sado
查房 make/go the rounds of the wards
拆東墻補西墻 rob Peter to pay Paul
拆遷戶 households or units relocated due to building demolition
攙水股票 water-down stocks (ordinary stocks that can be bought by persons in
side a stock company or a business at a cost lower that their face value)
禪 dhyana
產糧大省 granary province
產量比1997年增加了2倍 the output has increased 3 times (registered a 3-fold increase; increased 200%)compared with 1997