- wages; pay; CL:份[fen4]
- to sigh; to lament; to bewail
- to strangle; to throttle
- to accuse; to denounce; to make a complaint against; denunciation
- Li Kui, character in the novel Water Margin 水滸全傳|水浒全传[Shui3 hu3 quan2 zhuan4]
- to spread malicious gossip
- to have nothing to say (idiom)
- to repeat; to duplicate; CL:個|个[ge4]
- joke; jest; to laugh at; to mock; ridiculous; absurd
- to exaggerate
- cakes; pastries
- to wear down; to sap; to whittle away; to while away; to idle away
- first thing in the morning; at daybreak
- train; CL:列[lie4],節|节[jie2],班[ban1],趟[tang4]
- passenger
- to undergo (hardship); to endure; to withstand
- Shut up!; same as 閉上嘴巴|闭上嘴巴
- loud voice; in a loud voice; loudly
- 天方夜谭 Tiān fāng Yè tán: 天方夜谭 Tian1 fang1 Ye4 tan2: The Arabian Nights (classic story)天方夜谭 tiān fāng yè tán: 天方夜谭 tian1 fang1 ye4 tan2: fantasy story
- to salute; to pay one's respects to; to pay tribute to; to pay homage to
- goodwill; benevolence; kindness
- to assert; to claim
- five; 5
- tiles and bricks
- craftsman
- work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labor
- mariner; sailor; seaman
- (literary) shackles
- to learn; to study
- lit. Lord Ye's passion for dragons (idiom); fig. to pretend to be fond of sth while actually fearing it; ostensible fondness of sth one really fears
- to draw up; to formulate
- complete set; full complement
- all day long; the whole day
- to sing the praises of; to extol; to eulogize
- to deceive oneself
- to take unfair advantage of; to deceive; to cheat
- to capture; to seize; to occupy by force
- to acquire fraudulently; an illegal exchange
- to take sth to be true
- 笼 lǒng: 笼 long3: to envelop; to cover; (used in 籠子|笼子[long3 zi5]) large box; Taiwan pr. [long2]笼 lóng: 笼 long2: enclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket; steamer basket
- (idiom) (it) goes without saying; can well be imagined
- to jeer at; to deride; to ridicule; mockery; derision
- to implement; to carry out
- to use as an excuse; excuse; pretext