- to ask about; to make some inquiries; to ask around
- personal matters
- half an hour; 30 minutes
- to measure time; to time; to reckon by time
- elderly
- to draw; to paint
- candle; CL:根[gen1],支[zhi1]
- the whole night
- this life; this age
- strange; rare; bizarre
- Plato (c. 427 – c. 347 BC), Greek philosopher
- Shakespeare (name); William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright
- Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher
- people of ancient times; the ancients; extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis; (literary) deceased person
- a huge amount (of books and papers)
- to suffer; to sustain (loss, misfortune)
- to compensate; to make up
- 机制 jī zhì: 机制 ji1 zhi4: mechanism机制 jī zhì: 机制 ji1 zhi4: machine-processed; machine-made
- to escape; to evade; to avoid; to shirk
- biochemistry
- to resolve; to decompose; to break down
- chain; cable (unit of length: 100 fathoms, about 185 m); chain (unit of length: 66 feet, about 20 m); to chain; to enchain
- ribonucleic acid (RNA)
- template; (architecture) formwork
- protoplasm
- to sign (one's name with a pen etc); to autograph; signature
- dice
- so far; to this day; until now
- to pass on (to future generations); passed on (from former times); a continued tradition; an inheritance
- one billion; giga-
- to reorganize; to recombine; to restructure
- life span; life expectancy; lifetime (of a machine)
- yeast; saccharomycete
- community; (science) biocoenosis; ecological community
- to flourish and decay; rise and fall
- time limit; deadline; allotted time