- shop assistant; store clerk
- treasured object; treasure; darling; baby; cowry; good-for-nothing or queer character
- to hold; to grasp; to clench (one's fist); (bound form) to have in one's control; classifier: a handful
- girdle
- expressionless; wooden (expression); blank (face)
- to decorate; to dress; to make up; to adorn; manner of dressing; style of dress
- year (e.g. school year, fiscal year); annual
- to avoid; to yield (in traffic); to get out of the way
- vehicle
- place; location; (after a noun) place where it is located
- to push; to cut; to refuse; to reject; to decline; to shirk (responsibility); to put off; to delay; to push forward; to nominate; to elect; massage
- to fill up
- cloth (by the yard)
- trolley; cart; barrow; handcart; wheelbarrow; baby buggy
- (lit. and fig.) to pollute; to contaminate
- internal organs; viscera
- what kind?; what sort?
- to injure; to harm
- exactly; just; precisely; (loanword) cha-cha; cha-cha-cha (dance)
- good fortune; a blessing
- philosophy
- sixteen; 16
- to study attentively (a book); to delve into
- Shakespeare (name); William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968), US novelist
- iron chain
- to warn; to admonish
- to give some attention to; to divert one's attention; to be distracted
- way of thinking; opinion; notion; to think of a way (to do sth)
- belly; abdomen; stomach; CL:個|个[ge4]
- what's to be done
- sign; mark; symbol; to mark up; (computing) token
- nervous; keyed up; intense; tense; strained; in short supply; scarce; CL:陣|阵[zhen4]
- 钻 zuàn: 钻 zuan4: drill; auger; diamond钻 zuān: 钻 zuan1: to drill; to bore; to get into; to make one's way into; to enter (a hole); to thread one's way through; to study intensively; to dig into; to curry favor for personal gain
- to run one's eyes over; to sweep one's eyes over
- not a soul in sight (idiom)