- to take (a picture); to shoot (a film)
- before that; beforehand; previously
- (idiom) with great fanfare; on a grand scale
- truly; indeed; severely; harshly
- steep cliff; crag; precipice
- to fall; to tumble
- original shape; the same as before
- to rise again after a fall; to pick up; rally (stock market etc)
- to revise the current edition; revised edition
- loss; damage; CL:個|个[ge4]; to lose; to suffer damage
- to be unable to make any sense of the matter; to be at a loss
- (idiom) to make matters even worse; to add insult to injury
- to exhaust one's limited abilities (idiom)
- ache; pain; sorrow; deeply; thoroughly
- to ascertain; to act on; to criticize; to pass on; classifier for batches, lots, military flights; tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges)
- easy; simple; rashly; offhandedly
- to reflect on; to ponder over
- talent; gift; genius; talented; gifted
- 么 má: 么 ma2: exclamatory final particle么 me: 么 me5: suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼|什么[shen2 me5], what?, indefinite 這麼|这么[zhe4 me5] thus, etc么 ma: 么 ma5: interrogative final particle么 Yāo: 么 Yao1: surname Yao么 yāo: 么 yao1: youngest; most junior; tiny; one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military); one or ace on dice or dominoes
- completely focused; free of distractions
- (of time) to elapse; to pass; (of a situation) to develop; to evolve; to shift; to slide; to move smoothly and continuously along a surface
- superior by a notch; a cut above; even better
- to write; to compose
- since; as; this being the case
- to accept; to receive
- to walk past; to pass by
- (idiom) the first impression is the strongest; to hold a preconceived notion (about sth)
- community; social grouping
- else; other
- (idiom) (of people) born and raised in the locality; (of art forms, political parties, enterprises, products etc) developed locally from the outset; wholly indigenous
- trials and tribulations; ups and downs
- almost; nearly; more or less; about the same; good enough; not bad
- to grasp (also fig.); to seize; to hold; assurance; certainty; sure (of the outcome)
- (coll.) can't do anything about it; (coll.) there's no way that ...; it's simply not credible that ...; (coll.) couldn't be (better) (i.e. simply wonderful)
- energy