1 to wash out

2 elimination (by selection)

3 natural selection

4 to knock out (in a competition)

5 to die out

6 to phase out

1 chairman

2 director-general (of a company etc)

1 judgment

2 to referee

3 umpire

4 judge

5 referee

6 classifier: 个 gè

7 classifier: 位 wèi

8 classifier: 名 míng

1 to hit on sth new (idiom); to display originality

2 to adopt an original approach

1 to punish

2 punishment

3 sanctions (incl. economic)

1 survival of the fittest (idiom)

1 to hit on sth new (idiom); to display originality

2 to adopt an original approach

1 out with the old and in with the new (idiom)

1 to display originality (idiom); to do things differently

1 lit. tailor the clothes to fit the body (idiom); fig. act according to real circumstances