1 to keep

2 to maintain

3 to hold

4 to preserve

1 region

2 regional (away from the central administration)

3 local

1 government

2 official (approved or issued by an authority)

1 counterpart

2 other person involved

3 opposite side

4 other side

5 receiving party

1 to vote

2 vote

1 to get thoroughly drunk (idiom)

2 to get plastered

1 without rules, nothing can be done (idiom, from Mencius); one must follow some rules

1 to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb

1 the future is long (idiom); there will be ample time for that later

2 We'll cross that bridge when we get there

1 guard home, defend the country (idiom); national defense