开

to open / to start / to turn on / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / to operate (a vehicle) / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2] / abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

hands joined

(of news) to spread / to get around

to be awfully (busy etc)

to speak without thinking (idiom) / to blurt sth out

to cast or put aside / to forget for a while

to burst with joy

Asian Development Bank

to stretch out

arming system

variant of 信口開河|信口开河[xin4 kou3 kai1 he2]

to reverse a vehicle / to drive backwards

keep your thoughts to yourself

octavo

public expenditure

to start from scratch

every beginning is difficult (idiom) / getting started is always the hardest part

one man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies (idiom)

One key opens one lock. / There is a different solution for each problem. (idiom)

ratio seventy to thirty / thirty percent failure, seventy percent success

thirty percent failure, seventy percent success, the official PRC verdict on Mao Zedong

unable to understand / can't get the point