- have sth ready just in case; keep sth for possible future use
- to talk from one's personal experience; to use oneself as an example
- mood; spirits; interest
- spot; point; dot; speck; drop (of liquid); droplet; point (of argument); idea; crux; indication; pointer
- to be pleased beyond one's expectations (idiom); overjoyed at the turn of events
- personnel; human resources; human affairs; ways of the world; (euphemism) sexuality; the facts of life
- Mandate of Heaven; destiny; fate; one's life span
- fetus dies in the belly; (fig.) plans or projects failed before being carried out
- (of a person) short but plucky (idiom); (of an article) concise and forceful
- load; burden; charge
- stress (physics)
- weak; feeble; young; inferior; not as good as; (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than
- a neglected branch (of arts, science, sports etc); fig. a complete unknown who wins a competition
- to substitute for; to replace; to supersede
- to be ahead of one's time; to surpass or outdo one's predecessors; to be ahead of the pack; to take the lead; advanced
- to scout; to spy; to detect
- lit. to devise battle plan in a tent (idiom); fig. planning strategies
- 将军 jiāng jūn: 将军 jiang1 jun1: general; high-ranking military officer; to check or checkmate; fig. to embarrass; to challenge; to put sb on the spot将军 Jiāng jūn: 将军 Jiang1 jun1: (common place name)
- to negotiate; discussion; proposal
- large scale program of lasting importance; project of paramount importance; to think big; annual national audit
- as usual
- a load on one's mind; worry; CL:宗[zong1],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- to work hard; to do one's very best; to throw oneself into the task at hand
- to observe; to take it all in
- number of days; fate; destiny
- immediately afterwards; shortly after that
- blank space
- graveyard shift; late night shift
- 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
- novella
- Clay (name)
- 采 cǎi: 采 cai3: to pick; to pluck; to collect; to select; to choose; to gather采 cǎi: 采 cai3: color; complexion; looks采 cài: 采 cai4: used in 采邑[cai4 yi4] and 采地[cai4 di4]
- sonata
- very serious; solemn
- literary circles
- pornographic novel; dirty book
- inadvertently; unintentionally
- umbrella-shaped
- to spread; to proliferate; to diffuse
- to sprinkle; to spray; to spill; to shed
- to be enthralled; to be entranced
- to hold in store; to contain (untapped reserves etc)