1 to attract (interest, investment etc)

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 attractive force (such as gravitation)

2 sex appeal

3 attractiveness

1 to absorb

2 to assimilate

3 to ingest

4 to recruit

1 to smoke

1 leech

2 bloodsucking vermin

3 vampire (translated European notion)

4 fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers

1 all split up and in pieces (idiom); disunity (in an organization)

2 complete lack of unity

3 to disintegrate

4 falling apart

5 to be at sixes and sevens

1 heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster

2 fig. violent revolution

3 major social upheaval

1 to be scared out of one's wits (idiom)

1 in mortal fear (idiom)

1 to have a splitting headache (idiom)