- (lead) pencil; CL:支[zhi1],枝[zhi1],桿|杆[gan3]
- transnational; multinational
- to delay; to postpone; to keep putting sth off; to procrastinate; (computing) to lag
- nationals; citizens; people of a nation
- couldn't be better; ideal; wonderful
- lunch; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4],餐[can1]
- to bribe; a bribe
- committing all manner of crimes; completely unscrupulous
- meng (old administrative division in Dai areas of Yunnan)
- prison
- flowing (of speech, writing); fluent; smooth and easy
- 节 jié: 节 jie2: joint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar); seasonal festival; (bound form) to economize; to save; (bound form) moral integrity; chastity; classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc; knot (nautical miles per hour)节 jiē: 节 jie1: see 節骨眼|节骨眼[jie1 gu5 yan3]
- original name; real name; (of foreigners) first name; given name
- outmoded; old-fashioned; inflexible
- vulgar; poor taste
- jackal and wolf; ravenous wolf; fig. evil person; vicious tyrant
- to sell
- rope
- Ireland
- playwright
- Lord (name)
- surname Deng
- to bring out the best in each other (idiom); to complement one another well
- multi- (faceted, cultural, ethnic etc)
- to view oneself
- profound; abstruse; recondite; profoundly
- to convert (an asset) into cash; to cash out
- to worship; adoration
- preface; introductory remarks; preamble; prelude
- beginning; to start
- liberalism
- left-wing (political)
- Democratic Party
- 世故 shì gù: 世故 shi4 gu4: the ways of the world世故 shì gu: 世故 shi4 gu5: sophisticated; worldly-wise
- to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult; Taiwan pr. [diao1nan2]
- boundary; clue; indication; to obtain clues; to infer
- wild duck; mallard (Anas platyrhyncha)
- can't bear to (do sth emotionally painful)
- to kill
- chicken meat
- field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; feral
- squirrel
- diversity (of forms and colors)