- ex-wife; late wife
- lit. to work like an ox, to work like a horse; fig. to work extremely hard
- sth to strive for; prospect
- see 苦差[ku3 chai1]
- varying from person to person (idiom); different for each individual
- to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants; to toady; boot-licking
- rising straight up in a clear sky (idiom); rapid promotion to a high post; meteoric career
- center; end; to beg; to plead
- enlightening remarks (honorific); brilliant views
- friendly advice; words spoken on sb's behalf; a good word; kind words; words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions
- measureless; immeasurable
- seeing is believing
- poor wretch; pauper; destitute man; poverty-stricken peasant; penniless good-for-nothing; impecunious vagabond
- power; authority
- to not feel like (doing sth); to be disinclined to
- exaltation
- dispirited and listless (idiom); downcast
- to amuse; to make sb laugh; to tease
- to reach great heights (in technical skills or scholastic achievements)
- to continue in one's own way (idiom)
- to throw off; to abandon; to cast off; to get rid of; to dump
- impossibly stupid
- (idiom) to be on very good terms with each other; to hit it off with sb; to be passionately in love with each other; to carry on intimately with; (of trading, conflict etc) to be in full swing
- to confiscate; to seize
- invitation card; written invitation
- in disorder; deranged (mentally)
- to stop up; to close up; hard to get to; out of the way; inaccessible; unenlightened; blocking
- deeply; heavily
- nothing is too bizarre; full of extraordinary things
- to diagnose and treat