- how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things?
- rich and powerful (idiom)
- (idiom) to experience it for oneself; to actually *be* there (as opposed to reading about it etc)
- to defeat; to crush (in battle); beaten; ruined; destroyed; in decline
- to suffer enough from; to suffer all kinds of; to have one's fill of
- desolate; unfrequented; to treat sb coldly; to snub; to cold shoulder
- dull gray; drab; murky
- to remember; to recall; memory
- twelfth lunar month
- time; period during the day; one of the 12 two-hour periods enumerated by the earthly branches 地支
- mother's brother; maternal uncle (informal); CL:個|个[ge4]
- girl; servant girl; (used deprecatingly, but sometimes also as a term of endearment)
- a bunch; to tie together; bundle
- bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (CL:張|张[zhang1]); bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc); frame; chassis; classifier for blankets, quilts etc
- pedal (in a car, on a piano etc); treadle; footstool; footrest; footboard
- 暴 Bào: 暴 Bao4: surname Bao暴 bào: 暴 bao4: sudden; violent; cruel; to show or expose; to injure
- to hit; to beat (sb); (coll.) to smash (sth)
- head; skull; brains; mental capability; CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
- to hit; to strike; to tap; to rap; to knock; to rip sb off; to overcharge
- mokugyo; wooden fish (percussion instrument)
- to ignite; to light; fig. to spark off (hopes, controversy, flames of revolution)
- Qiu Jin (1875-1907), famous female martyr of the anti-Qing revolution, the subject of several books and films
- Roland (name)
- Yang Kaihui (1901-1930), Mao Zedong's second wife
- rainbow
- to go with sb; to form companionships
- all-girls school
- Shanghai University
- Mao Dun (1896-1981), Chinese novelist
- Communist Party member
- to circle in the air; to soar
- to be just like; can be compared to
- what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth?
- the Band-tightening Spell (in 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]); a spell or incantation for controlling sb
- to join a political party (esp. the Communist Party)
- 嘛 má: 嘛 ma2: used in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽[an3 ma2 ni2 ba1 mi1 hong1]; (Tw) (coll.) what?嘛 ma: 嘛 ma5: modal particle indicating that sth is obvious; particle indicating a pause for emphasis
- to fly
- 小说家 Xiǎo shūo jiā: 小说家 Xiao3 shuo1 jia1: School of Minor-talks, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家[zhu1 zi3 bai3 jia1] during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)小说家 xiǎo shūo jiā: 小说家 xiao3 shuo1 jia1: novelist
- (bound form) radiance; brilliance; to shine
- shrewish; pungent; forceful; bold and vigorous