1 to die

2 impassable

3 uncrossable

4 inflexible

5 rigid

6 extremely

7 damned

1 to exercise

2 to move about

3 to operate

4 to use connections (personal influence)

5 loose

6 shaky

7 active

8 movable

9 activity

10 campaign

11 maneuver

12 behavior

13 classifier: 项 xiàng

14 classifier: 个 gè

1 life

2 activity

3 to live

4 livelihood

1 to demand

2 to request

3 to coerce

1 main

2 principal

3 major

4 primary

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