1 to die

2 impassable

3 uncrossable

4 inflexible

5 rigid

6 extremely

7 damned

1 conclusion

2 ending

1 arrangement

2 composition

3 layout

4 opening (chess jargon)

1 narrow

1 variant: 局限 jú xiàn

1 lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom)

2 fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal

3 to keep going while some hope is left

1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)

2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle

3 it's either him or me

1 to act recklessly (idiom)

1 don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)

2 there's more than one way to skin a cat

1 nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape

2 new lease of life