- tone; manner of speaking; mood; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to grasp (often fig.); to control; to seize (initiative, opportunity, destiny); to master; to know well; to understand sth well and know how to use it; fluency
- boat; ship; craft; to navigate; to sail; to fly
- girl; lass
- (idiom) inconceivable; unimaginable; unfathomable
- wound; injury; trauma
- to recuperate; to recover (health); to convalesce
- to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly
- to link; to join; link; connection
- intimate; close
- lasting; enduring; persistent; permanent; protracted; endurance; persistence; to last long
- to speak in defense of; to argue in favor of; to defend; to plead
- open and candid (idiom); straightforward and upright
- selfless; unselfish; disinterested; altruistic
- deliberately; on purpose
- desolate; unfrequented; to treat sb coldly; to snub; to cold shoulder
- to tease (playfully); to entice; (coll.) to joke; (coll.) funny; amusing; to stay; to sojourn
- to intervene; to get involved
- to regret; to feel remorse
- homosexuality; gay person; gay love
- heterosexuality; heterosexual love
- because of; on the basis of; in view of; on account of
- multi- (faceted, cultural, ethnic etc)
- (tape) recording machine; tape recorder; CL:臺|台[tai2]
- family member; (old) servant
- to close; to stop up; to shut; to obstruct
- cake; CL:塊|块[kuai4],個|个[ge4]
- candle; CL:根[gen1],支[zhi1]
- to blow out (a flame)
- to videotape; to videorecord; video recording; CL:盤|盘[pan2]
- 小子 xiǎo zǐ: 小子 xiao3 zi3: (literary) youngster; (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation); (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders)小子 xiǎo zi: 小子 xiao3 zi5: (coll.) boy; (derog.) joker; guy; (despicable) fellow
- birthday; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to pass; to spend (time); to survive; to get through
- to meet again; to be reunited; reunion
- to stay at home while one's husband is away; grass widow
- young
- (of pain or hardship) hard to bear
- illness; CL:場|场[chang2]; disease; to fall ill; defect
- frustration
- separated by (distance or time etc)