- thread; string; wire; line; CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3],根[gen1]; (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)
- any; arbitrary; at will; at random
- to travel back and forth; to shuttle
- deep natural pond; deep pit; abyss
- to salvage; to dredge; to fish out (person or object from the sea)
- sequential order
- to sort; to arrange in order
- to sum up; to summarize; to conclude from facts; induction (method of deduction in logic)
- (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)?
- order; orderliness (in society, in the classroom, on the roads etc)
- false appearance; facade
- to submit; to yield; to bow to sb's will
- one's declining years; one's old age
- circumstances; scene; about; probably
- irrevocable; the die is cast
- 满 Mǎn: 满 Man3: Manchu ethnic group满 mǎn: 满 man3: to fill; full; filled; packed; fully; completely; quite; to reach the limit; to satisfy; satisfied; contented
- vice; degenerate pleasures
- the middle; the inside; in the middle; within; between; among; during; in the meantime
- to embezzle; to swallow up; to engulf
- field; farmland; cropland; plight; extent
- (idiom) without end; never-ending
- sultry; sultriness; hot and stuffy; stifling hot
- to spoil; to pamper; to dote on
- to neglect; to overlook; to disregard; to ignore
- direct; concerning oneself; personal
- (idiom) four-part structure of a composition: introduction, elucidation, pivot (shift in perspective), synthesis; (fig.) coherent structural progression in writing, narrative, or any unfolding process
- to put together; to join
- Hollywood; also pr. [Hao3lai2wu1]
- to move to tears (of a story); tear-provoking (gas); lacrimogen
- an epic; poetic saga
- large-scale Chinese opera; Beijing opera; major dramatic production (movie, TV series etc)
- (of relatives or friends) to live far apart from each other
- predestination; karma
- all ready; available; complete
- sharply; distinctly; radically
- villain (of a drama etc)
- decline to comment; not express an opinion; be noncommittal; hedge
- to isolate; isolated; unrelated; irrelevant
- (idiom) to mention only very briefly; to skate over (a topic)
- current
- item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc
- lit. the rise and fall of the terrain (idiom); fig. the whole sequence of events; causes and effects
- attractive force (such as gravitation); sex appeal; attractiveness