1. fire brigade
2. fire department

1. very; quite
2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)

1. rapid
2. quick
3. speed
4. rate
5. soon
6. almost
7. to make haste
8. clever
9. sharp (of knives or wits)
10. forthright
11. plainspoken
12. gratified
13. pleased
14. pleasant

1. (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then
2. (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after
3. (same as 就是 jiùshì) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly
4. only; as little as
5. as much as; as many as
6. to approach; to move towards
7. to undertake; to engage in
8. (often followed by 著 zhe) taking advantage of
9. (of food) to go with
10. with regard to; concerning
11. (pattern: 就 jiù ... 也 yě ...) even if ... still ...
12. (pattern: 不 bù ... 就 jiù ...) if not ... then must be ...

1. to hold; to grasp
2. to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate
3. handlebar
4. classifier: handful, bundle, bunch
5. classifier for things with handles
6. (used to put the object before the verb: 把 bǎ + {noun} + {verb})

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)
2. a surname
3. alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)

classifier: 場

1. to throw oneself at
2. to pounce on
3. to devote one's energies
4. to flap
5. to flutter
6. to dab
7. to pat
8. to bend over

1. to extinguish
2. to put out (fire)
3. to quench
4. to stop burning
5. to go out (of fire, lamp etc)
6. to come to an end
7. to wither away
8. to die out
9. Taiwan pr. xí