- female; woman; daughter
- graduate student; postgraduate student; research student
- cause; reason; because
- father and mother; parents
- to make a supreme effort; at all costs
- to oppose; to be against; to object to
- cannot; must not; should not
- heel; to follow closely; to go with; (of a woman) to marry sb; with; compared with; to; towards; and (joining two nouns)
- (bound form) male; baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- teaching assistant
- to marry after getting pregnant
- (literary) hard; firm; strong; exactly; precisely; barely; only just; just; only a short while ago
- to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire); to live; to be alive; life; raw; uncooked; unprocessed; unfamiliar; strange; (bound form) student; person engaged in a field; (bound form) male role in traditional opera; (bound form) life; lifetime; (bound form) means of livelihood; (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]); (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- welfare agency
- 后 hòu: 后 hou4: empress; queen; (archaic) monarch; ruler后 Hòu: 后 Hou4: surname Hou后 hòu: 后 hou4: back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; post-
- mother and child; parent and subsidiary (companies); principal and interest
- ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only; (emphatic, esp. in contrast or correction) really; actually
- able to; so that sb can; enabling; in order to; finally in a position to; with sth in view
- to know each other; to recognize; to identify; to acknowledge (an old relationship)
- theatrical
- to marry; to get married
- daughter
- younger sister; young woman; CL:個|个[ge4]
- afterwards; later; newly arrived
- well-known; famous
- 小说家 xiǎo shūo jiā: 小说家 xiao3 shuo1 jia1: novelist小说家 Xiǎo shūo jiā: 小说家 Xiao3 shuo1 jia1: School of Minor-talks, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家[zhu1 zi3 bai3 jia1] during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
- one's life experience; one's lot; one's past history
- like that; in that way; to that extent; (before a number) ... or so; about ...; then; in that case
- (of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
- Canada
- to rely on sth (for support etc); to depend on
- family; household; CL:戶|户[hu4]
- relation; relationship; to concern; to affect; to have to do with; guanxi; CL:個|个[ge4]
- smoothly; without a hitch
- to get; to obtain
- passport; CL:本[ben3],個|个[ge4]
- to toss about in bed; from person to person; indirectly; to wander
- to learn; to study
- to form ties; to become attached (to sb, sth)
- 故事 gù shi: 故事 gu4 shi5: narrative; story; tale故事 gù shì: 故事 gu4 shi4: old practice
- racial segregation; apartheid
- 时代 Shí dài: 时代 Shi2 dai4: Time, US weekly news magazine时代 shí dài: 时代 shi2 dai4: age; era; epoch; period (in one's life); CL:個|个[ge4]
- Pretoria, capital of South Africa
- Anglo-
- Saxon (people)
- (bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 華裔|华裔[Hua2 yi4] "of Chinese descent"); (literary) distant lands; (literary) fringe; periphery
- white man or woman; Caucasian