本

root / stem / origin / source / this / the current / original / inherent / originally / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc

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

(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

book / CL:本[ben3]

in deadly earnest / deadpan

in deadly earnest; deadpan

to make a loss

to spare no effort / to devote all one's energies

constant capital

to hand in one's ration cards / to die

man at birth is fundamentally good in nature / the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經|三字经[San1 zi4 Jing1]

small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out

to sell at a loss

to talk shop all the time (idiom)

netbook