- legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
- to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
- to think back over sth; to review; to revisit; to rethink; reflection; reassessment
- pressing in on one's eyelashes (idiom); imminent
- career; life (way in which sb lives); period of one's life
- to lean; to slant; oblique; prejudiced; to deviate from average; to stray from the intended line; stubbornly; contrary to expectations
- place; site; location; venue; CL:個|个[ge4]
- overall volume or size (of a building etc); scale; quantity
- the Confucian classics; (Christianity, Judaism) the holy scriptures; CL:本[ben3],部[bu4]
- fisherman
- 苏 sū: 苏 su1: used in 嚕囌|噜苏[lu1 su1]苏 sū: 苏 su1: to revive苏 sū: 苏 su1: Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil); place name; to revive; used as phonetic in transliteration苏 Sū: 苏 Su1: surname Su; abbr. for Soviet Union 蘇維埃|苏维埃[Su1 wei2 ai1] or 蘇聯|苏联[Su1 lian2]; abbr. for Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏[Jiang1 su1]; abbr. for Suzhou 蘇州|苏州[Su1 zhou1]
- to serve in the army; in active service
- battlefield
- newspaper (i.e. a company); CL:家[jia1]
- to catch (a disease); to get (a bad habit)
- serious illness
- 当年 dàng nián: 当年 dang4 nian2: that very same year当年 dāng nián: 当年 dang1 nian2: in those days; back then; in those years; to be in the prime of life
- army; armed forces; troops; force; unit; CL:個|个[ge4]
- strange; unfamiliar
- human nature; humanity; human; the totality of human attributes
- citizen
- to vote; to cast a vote
- substance; essence
- totalitarianism
- and then; and thereby; and in turn
- reason; rationality; rationale; reasonableness
- to deport; to expel
- to form; to make up; to constitute
- community; neighborhood
- health; healthy
- to topple (i.e. knock over); to capsize; fig. to overturn (a regime, by plotting or subversion); to undermine; to subvert
- Petersburg (place name); Saint Petersburg, Russia
- different tunes played with equal skill (idiom); different methods leading to the same result; different approach but equally satisfactory outcome
- clever; wonderful
- chip; fragment; splinter; tatter
- Russia
- to assign; to appoint; assignment
- lit. has a name but no reality (idiom); exists only in name; nominal
- to set up; to install
- time bomb