1 to insert

2 stick in

3 pierce

4 to take part in

5 to interfere

6 to interpose

1 template

2 (architecture) formwork

1 variant: 老板 lǎo bǎn

1 motherboard (computing)

1 lit. knifes piercing both sides (idiom)

2 fig. to attach a great importance to friendship, up to the point of being able to sacrifice oneself for it

1 lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. follow a prescribed pattern to the letter

2 scrupulous attention to detail

1 lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. scrupulous attention to detail

1 lit. knifes piercing both sides (idiom)

2 fig. to attach a great importance to friendship, up to the point of being able to sacrifice oneself for it

1 to include impromptu comic material in opera performance (idiom); to jest

2 buffoonery

1 lit. even given wings, you couldn't fly (idiom); fig. impossible to escape