- cortex; cerebral cortex
- steamboat; steamship
- (name) Jamie; Jim
- Blair (name)
- Leningrad, former name (1923–1991) of Russian city Saint Petersburg 聖彼得堡|圣彼得堡[Sheng4 bi3 de2 bao3]
- family influential for generations; aristocratic family
- Tolstoy (name); Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平
- 泰和 tài hé: 泰和 tai4 he2: calm and peaceful泰和 Tài hé: 泰和 Tai4 he2: see 泰和縣|泰和县[Tai4 he2 Xian4]
- blood relationship; genetic relationship; consanguinity
- Natalie (name)
- 津 jīn: 津 jin1: saliva; sweat; a ferry crossing; a ford (river crossing)津 Jīn: 津 Jin1: abbr. for Tianjin 天津[Tian1 jin1]
- translator (of writings)
- State University (US)
- to take office; to assume a post
- Moscow, capital of Russia
- Gorbachev; Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1991–1995
- to hold a teaching position
- (bound form) equal; uniform; even; (literary) without exception; all
- a series of books; a collection of books
- caustic; biting; piquant; acerbic; vitriolic; acrimonious
- to start a rumor
- party; carousal; hilarity; merriment; whoopee; to carouse
- popular tradition; folk legend
- to draw; to derive; to absorb
- comedic material; (in reference to a person) laughingstock; butt of jokes
- Tsarist Russia; abbr. for 沙皇俄國|沙皇俄国[Sha1 huang2 E2 guo2]
- surname Min
- disaster; calamity
- to seek survival; to possess the will to live
- to leave behind; to hand down
- cheek
- corn (callus on the foot)
- sled; sledge; sleigh; bobsled
- to fall; to sink; (fig.) to degenerate
- to resist; to hold back; to stop; to ward off; to withstand
- an excerpt; a digest