1 template

2 (architecture) formwork

1 variant: 老板 lǎo bǎn

1 motherboard (computing)

1 stiff

2 inflexible

3 mechanical

4 stubborn

5 to cut blocks for printing

1 to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song)

2 (coll.) to challenge

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. to pull chestnuts out of the fire (idiom)

2 fig. to be sb's cat's-paw

1 to shake like an aspen

2 to shiver with fear (idiom)

1 with shuddering thighs and skin like gooseflesh (idiom)