- to write and direct (a play, film etc); playwright-director; choreographer-director; scenarist-director
- lit. to proclaim oneself hegemon; to take a leading role; to build a personal fiefdom
- gold; golden (opportunity); prime (time)
- to listen to (a radio broadcast)
- time interval; work shift; time slot; the twelve two-hour divisions of the day
- well-being; welfare
- materialism, philosophical doctrine that physical matter is the whole of reality
- heresy
- humble; lowly; depraved; contemptible
- illegitimate son
- to think too much of oneself; self-important; arrogant
- ear-piercing
- Myanmar (or Burma)
- 甸 Diàn: 甸 Dian4: surname Dian甸 diàn: 甸 dian4: suburbs or outskirts; one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic China; official in charge of fields (old)
- Ceylon (former name of Sri Lanka)
- Malaya
- guerrilla band
- to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
- Eid (Islam)
- to denounce; to censure; to rebuke
- hunting dog; hound; (fig.) running dog; lackey
- to trigger; to spark
- to debate; to contend; polemics
- lackey; errand boy; lit. runner before a carriage
- to support (a cause)
- eye; CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]
- the Franks (Germanic people who arrived in Europe from 600 AD and took over France)
- illusory; imaginary; fanciful
- to dilute; to water down; watered down
- to misunderstand; misunderstanding
- penetrating; thorough; incisive
- lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom); fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline; to take a dive
- Gaelic; Geier or Gayer (name)
- to show; to take out and show to others; to display
- to dissect (an animal); to analyze; anatomy
- bones; skeleton
- muscle; flesh
- circulatory system
- reverent and respectful; extremely deferential
- to make one's name; to become famous
- to think highly of oneself (idiom); giving oneself airs; arrogant and self-important
- to choose
- to mock; to disparage; to belittle