- kindly; benevolent (often of older person)
- see through (a person, scheme, trick etc)
- to question; to ask; to raise a question
- defender (usu. of sth abstract such as people's rights or a government policy)
- (onom.) gentle laughter; chuckle
- powerless to defend oneself (idiom); helpless
- traditionalist; moralist; champion (of a cause)
- to pair up; to match up; to form a pair (e.g. to marry); to mate; matched pair
- to gesticulate while talking (idiom); to explain by waving one's hands; to criticize or give orders summarily
- to sneer at; to ridicule; to taunt
- incidentally; occasional; occasionally; by chance; randomly
- mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line; nowhere to go
- imminent danger (idiom); approaching a crisis
- never
- to save; to remedy; to rescue
- to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out; to destroy; to exterminate
- (idiom) unprecedented
- difficult problem
- circumstances
- thorough and detailed; exhaustive; the tedious details in full
- to get into difficulties; to meet with danger
- to show off; to make a display of
- clever-clever; clever in trivial matters; sharp but petty-minded
- efficiency
- whale
- development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand
- will; shall; to be going to
- where?
- shape; form; pattern; morphology
- an integral whole; all concerned; everybody
- to ensure; to guarantee
- to be equal to; to be well-matched; rival
- next; secondly
- to evolve; evolution
- end; conclusion; to come to an end; to terminate (sth)
- to leap
- (onom.) swishing; rustling
- lit. to yearn for sth even in one's dreams (idiom); fig. to deeply long for; to covet
- 摩挲 mā sa: 摩挲 ma1 sa5: (coll.) to remove (crinkles, dirt) with the palm of the hand; Taiwan pr. [mo2suo1]摩挲 mó sūo: 摩挲 mo2 suo1: to stroke; to caress
- public enemy
- to shoot dead
- airport; airfield; (slang) service provider for Shadowsocks or similar software for circumventing Internet censorship; CL:家[jia1],處|处[chu4]
- to digress; to get sidetracked; to go off on a tangent
- to open up