(in the process of) connecting
common front; united front
should do; ought to do; must do
now advancing and now retreating; ebb and flow; seesawing; taking alternately favorable and unfavorable turns
voluntary restraints; self-limitation
environmentally friendly; eco-friendly
logistics; supply; communications
to turn back; to go back; to repeat; to send back; to bring back; to retrace one's steps
to feel relieved; to feel satisfied
inner citadel; core; center; centre
jaws of death; dangerous place; (lit.) tiger's den
cost of a meal (or meals)
outskirts (of a town); edge (of a town); just outside the city limits
conversion; shift; about-face; switch
complicity (in a crime); collusion
to allow light to pass through; to shine light through
to shun; to avoid; to ostracize; to neglect; to distance oneself from; to give the hard shoulder
love for (one's) family; family love; familial love
twilight; time for disasters (similar to 'the witching hour' but not midnight)
disaster; calamity; misfortune; trouble; woes
to fall onto; to happen; to befall
Eurasian continent; Eurasia
Sichuan (China); Szechuan; Szechwan
lock; padlock; tablet; lozenge; pill