闭卷 closed-book exam
闭路电视 close-circuit television
闭门羹 given a cold shoulder
比上不足,比下有余 "worse off than some, better off than many; to fall short of the best, but be better than the worst"
逼上梁山 be driven to do something
避税 tax avoidance
避嫌 avoid doing anything that may arouse suspicion
毕业设计 graduation design
毕业生分配制度 assignment system for graduates
便当 brown bag
边防证 frontier pass
边际效益 marginal benefit
边境检查 border inspection (International delegations arriving in Shanghai for the upcoming World Expo would be entitled to special passage for swift border inspection as the metropolis gears up for the final run-up to the international event. 在世博会的最后准备阶段,上海将为陆续抵达的外国参展团提供专用通道实行快速边境检查。)
便民服务 service for the convenience of the customers
变相涨价 disguised inflation
便携式电脑 portable computer; laptop; notebook computer
变形金刚 Transformers ("Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" opened to Chinese audiences at 0:00 Wednesday, smashing first-day box office records in many theatres across the capital. 24日零点,《变形金刚2》在中国"卷土重来",上映首日便打破北京多家影院首映当日票房纪录。)
变性人 transgender (Thomas Beatie, a transgender man of Oregon, gets pregnant by artificial insemination. 来自俄勒冈的变性男子托马斯·贝蒂通过人工受精方式怀孕。)
便衣警察 police in plain clothes
边远地区 remote and border areas
边缘科学 borderline (boundary) science; fringe (border) discipline
边远贫困地区 outlying poverty-stricken areas
边缘政策 brinkmanship
边缘知识人 Marginal intellectuals
贬值 devalue, devaluate, depreciate (of a currency)