收敛 | shōu liǎn | to dwindle; to vanish; to make vanish; to exercise restraint; to curb (one's mirth, arrogance etc); to astringe; (math.) to converge | |
敛财 | liǎn cái | to accumulate wealth; to rake in money | |
聚敛 | jù liǎn | to accumulate; to gather; to amass wealth by heavy taxation or other unscrupulous means; (science) convergent | |
内敛 | nèi liǎn | introverted; reserved; (artistic style) understated | |
横征暴敛 | héng zhēng bào liǎn | to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force |
1 | Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. | |
2 | And it is common that those who are blinded by greed will resort to unscrupulous means to amass their fortunes. | |
3 | Well, add one more reason to spite Ronald: as the global economy spirals downward, McDonald's is minting money. | |
4 | When the enthusiasm for the rational convergence, when the interest in writing blessing, darling, so that two sincere hearts so invisible at love in the tightly dependent! | |
5 | In red wines, tannins are present in grape skins and seeds and lead to astringency and (in the case of young, high-tannin wines) a dry, puckering feeling in the mouth. |