- noble and lowly; high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism
- struggle
- to lose; to throw away; to discard; to cast away
- to enslave
- to harm (sb's health) with narcotics etc; to poison (people's minds); to corrupt; pernicious influence
- to raise (animals)
- (for) a lifetime
- farm animal; livestock
- desert
- fresh and green; verdant
- rainforest
- to strive; to struggle
- 撮 zǔo: 撮 zuo3: classifier for hair or grass: tuft; Taiwan pr. [cuo4]撮 cūo: 撮 cuo1: to pick up (a powder etc) with the fingertips; to scoop up; to collect together; to extract; to gather up; classifier: pinch; Taiwan pr. [cuo4]
- to obstinately persist in going about things the wrong way (idiom)
- to compete with; to vie with; to counter
- handful (of)
- servility; doormat mentality
- to soak; to dip
- would rather...; it would be better...; would prefer
- cool eye; fig. detached; (treating) with indifference
- slightly-built; petite
- 木 mù: 木 mu4: (bound form) tree; (bound form) wood; unresponsive; numb; wooden木 Mù: 木 Mu4: surname Mu
- fork; CL:把[ba3]
- people of one's parents' generation
- father's father; paternal grandfather
- lifetime; generation; group of people; class; classifier for generations; (literary) classifier for people
- the same old stuff
- misconception; fallacy
- tradition; traditional
- never; will never
- tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people
- narrow; cramped
- to repair; to fix; to prune; to trim; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb
- (coll.) to be done for
- from birth; by one's nature
- to wet one's pants
- agreement; contract
- later generation