质量守恒定律 law of conservation of mass
致命要害 Achilles' heel
滞纳金 fine for delaying payment; fine for paying late
智囊流失 brain drain
智囊团、思想库 brain trust；think tank
智能终端 intelligent terminal
职能转换 transformation of functions
支票簿新闻 checkbook journalism (Mixing financial and promotional motives with an impartial search for truth stains honest, ethical reporting, checkbook journalism has no place in the news business. 支票簿新闻将经济因素、促销动机、与公正寻求真相混淆起来，玷污了诚实报道、有道德报道的准则，在新闻业没有立足之地。)
掷钱猜先 toss
智商 intelligence quotient (IQ)
纸上谈兵 be an armchair strategist
知识产权 intellectual property right
知识经济 knowledge economy
知识就是力量 Knowledge is power.
知识密集 knowledge-intensive
知识转让 transfer of knowledge
知识资本 knowledge capital
职务发明 on-duty invention
职务犯罪 crime by taking advantage of duty
植物群落 plant community
植物人 person in coma; vegetable
职务消费 position-related consumption (The document set guidelines in salary structure and payment, position-related consumption, and supervision and management, in a bid to establish and perfect incentive and restraint mechanisms regulating SOE executives' salaries. 该文件在薪资结构和支付、职务消费以及薪资的监督和管理上制定了指导方针，目的是为了建立健全规范国有企业高管薪酬的激励和约束机制。)
直辖市 municipality directly under the Central Government
直销 direct marketing; door-to-door sale
滞销商品 unmarketable goods职称 professional title
只读存储器 read-only-memory (ROM)
执法过错追究制 mechanism for investigating and processing law enforcement improprieties
执法人员 law enforcement officials; law-executor; law enforcer
直飞航线 non-stop flight; direct flight (Wuhan to have 1st direct int'l air route -- Air China will launch a non-stop flight route linking central China's industrial hub of Wuhan with Tokyo on August 27, the airline said on Wednesday. 武汉即将开通第一条国际直飞航线——国航于周三发布消息称，连接华中地区工业中心的武汉至日本东京的直飞航线将于8月27日开通。)
支付能力 payment capacity
职工代表大会 workers' conference
职工工资集体协商制度 negotiation system for determining employee wages
职工股 employee stock
制海权 command of the sea
滞后影响 lagged effect
知己知彼,百战不殆 Know the enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat.
直接道歉 a straight-out apology
直接融资 direct financing
直接三通与双向交流 three direct links (mail, air and shipping services and trade) and bilateral exchanges
直接、双向、全面“三通” the direct, two-way and complete “Three Links”
直接选举 direct election
制空权 air space control; air supremacy; command of the air; air mastery; air domination
智力结构 the configuration of the personnel in a given unit
智力引进 recruit / introduce (foreign) talents
治理整顿 improve and rectify; improvement and rectification
智力支持 intellectual support
质量第一，顾客至上 quality first, customers supreme
质量管理 quality control
质量认证体系认证证书 certificate of the system of quality certification
政务透明 administrative transparency (Chinese government body yielded to public pressure Sunday for administrative transparency and promised to disclose detailed expenditures of the country's four-trillion-yuan (US$585.5 billion) stimulus package. 中国政府有关部门已于上周日向公众保证增加政务信息透明度，并承诺公布国家4万亿元（合5855亿美元）经济刺激方案的投资细节。)
征信 credit investigation
争议地区 disputed area
政治合格，军事过硬，作风优良， 纪律严明，保障有力 "be qualified politically and competent militarily, have a fine style of work, maintain strict discipline and be assured of adequate logistical support"
政治局 politburo
政治局常委 politburo's standing committee
政治迫害 political persecution; witch hunt
政治素质 political caliber
政治体制改革 political restructuring
政治协商、民主监督、参政议政 exercise political consultation and democratic supervision and participate in deliberating and administration of state affairs
正版软件 genuine software
政策性关闭破产 policy-based closure and bankruptcy
零存整取 fixed deposit by installments
政府收支分类改革 reformation of the classification of government revenue and expenditures
征集意见 solicit opinion
证券交易委员会 Securities and Exchange Commission
证券投资者保护基金 stock investors' protection fund
政治多元化和多党制 multiple politics and a multi-party system
政治捐款丑闻 political funding scandal
政治面貌 politics status
纸包不住火 Truth will come to light sooner or later.
纸币流通 fiduciary circulation
支边 support the border areas
直播 "live broadcast, live telecast"
职场冷暴力 emotional office abuse; emotional abuse in the workplace (More than 70 percent of office workers encounter "emotional office abuse", three-quarters of which are from the post-80s people, a survey conducted by zhaopin.com says. 智联招聘开展的一项调查显示，超过70%的办公室职员遭遇“职场冷暴力”，其中四分之三的人是80后。)
政务公开、透明 make government affairs transparent
政府工作报告 government work report
政府工作的着力点 the government's priorities
政府廉洁高效 a clean and efficient government
政府上网工程 Government Online Project
政府特殊津贴 special government allowance
政府贴息贷款 discount government loans
政府指导价 government guided-price (Two factors that cause drug prices to soar were the free market procedures of three layers -- medicine factories, drug representatives, and hospital doctors; and government guided-price makers who know little about the costs of the drugs. 药价高涨原因有二。其一，药品要经药厂、医药代表、医生三次倒手才能到患者手中；其二，政府指导价制定者并不清楚药物成本。)
政府职能转变 transform/shift the government functions
政改方案(英国对香港) constitutional package
争购 snap up (Chinese homebuyers are going to visit the US in February to snap up cheap homes to take advantage of the real estate plunge on the other side of the globe. 中国一批购房者将于二月前往美国，希望在房地产市场低迷的美国能争购到便宜的房子。)
证据审查 evidence review (A death sentence should be pronounced only with sufficient evidence acquired through legal means, stipulate the two regulations: One on evidence review in death sentence cases, and the other on excluding illegal evidence in criminal cases. 有关死刑案中的证据审查和刑事案件中非法证据排除的这两项规定要求，只有在通过合法途径获得充分证据的情况下才能宣判死刑。)
正气 uprightness; integrity; probity; rectitude
政企不分 without a clear line between the functions of the government and enterprises; the functions of the government and enterprises mixed up
政企分开 separate government functions from enterprise management
争抢生源 poaching of talented students (Two of Shanghai's leading universities are involved in a fierce dispute over alleged poaching of talented students, as competition among universities on the Chinese mainland continues to intensify. 上海两所著名高校近日卷入争抢生源的口水仗中，大陆高校争抢生源的竞争愈演愈烈。)
证券发行审核制度 the system for examining and verifying the issuance of securities
证券化 securitisation
证券监督管理委员会 securities supervision commission
证券投资基金 securities investment funds
证券营业部 stock exchange; security exchange
整容手术 plastic surgery; face lift
正式会计师 Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
正式照会 formal note
政务公开、透明 make government affairs public
枕头风 pillow wind
珍稀濒危物种 rare or endangered species
真相调查团 fact-finding mission
振兴经济 revitalize the economy
振兴中华 make China powerful and strong; revitalize the Chinese nation
震源 focus (of an earthquake), seismic origin
震中 epicenter
震中烈度 epicentral intensity
震中区 epicentral area
政策监督 policy surveillance
政策倾斜 policy support
政策性贷款 policy-based lending;policy-related loan
政策性亏损 policy-related losses; losses incurred due to policy decisions
政策性银行 policy banks
政策性住房 "policy-related house, policy-based house"
政策银行 policy banks
政策组合 policy mix
正当自卫能力 capability for just self-defence
争端解决机构 dispute settlement body
整顿经济秩序 rectify the economic order
政法委 politics and law committee
政府采购 government procurement
政府搭台，部门推动，企业唱戏 "Governments set up the stage, various departments cooperate and enterprise put in the show. "
正负电子对撞机 electron-positron collider
政府干预 government intervention