起來

to stand up / to get up / also pr. [qi3 lai2]

(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]) / indicating completion / (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment / also pr. [qi3 lai5]

to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group

to come / to arrive / to come round / ever since / next

seemingly / apparently / looks as if / appear to be / gives the impression that / seems on the face of it to be

to get better / to improve / to get well

to remember / to recall

to put together

to stand up

to calculate / to estimate / in total / all told / (fig.) if you think about it

to sound like

to get enthusiastic / to put in all one's energy

lit. like tofu strung on horsetail, you can't lift it / fig. let's not talk of this (pun on 提[ti2])

Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch! / Workers of the world, unite!