1 to recommend

2 recommendation

1 old practice

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 the ways of the world

1 accident

2 classifier: 桩 zhuāng

3 classifier: 起 qǐ

4 classifier: 次 cì

1 to push

2 to cut

3 to refuse

4 to reject

5 to decline

6 to shirk (responsibility)

7 to put off

8 to delay

9 to push forward

10 to nominate

11 to elect

12 massage

1 complete change from the old rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction

2 a volte-face

3 to change old practices

1 mutually shirking responsibilities (idiom); each blaming the other

2 passing the buck to and fro

3 each trying to unload responsibilities onto the other

1 meeting an old friend in a foreign place (idiom)

1 back to where we were (idiom); absolutely no improvement

2 Things haven't changed at all.

1 to be one's old self (idiom)

2 to be unchanged

3 (derog.) to be stuck in one's ways