- to insult; to humiliate; to bully
- to exert (effort or pressure)
- brutal; tyrannical
- handsome; large; long
- masterpiece
- intuition
- to take down (in writing); notes; a type of literature consisting mainly of short sketches; CL:本[ben3]
- to beg; to beseech; to entreat; entreaty
- to hang sb up and beat him; (fig.) (slang) to own (one's opponent); to thoroughly dominate
- gloomy and cold
- (stage) lighting; light
- to pour wine; to drink wine; to deliberate; to consider
- (bound form) to vanish; to die out; to obliterate
- (of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
- span; horizontal distance between vertical supports
- clear; well-defined; limpid
- chip; fragment; splinter; tatter
- 隽 juàn: 隽 juan4: meaningful; significant隽 Juàn: 隽 Juan4: surname Juan
- a little; a few
- (idiom) just a word or two; a few isolated phrases
- to put together; linking; successive; a cluster
- to differentiate and analyze; to discriminate
- only; merely; just
- dogmatism
- remote; desolate; far from the city
- lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom); fig. very poor; wretched
- low; humble; plain; ugly; mean; vulgar
- beset by hunger and cold (idiom); starving and freezing; in desperate poverty
- to lead; to be in front
- specter; apparition; ghost
- to resound; to reverberate; to echo
- to weave; to knit; to plait; to braid; (fig.) to create (sth abstract, e.g. a dream, a lie etc)
- yesterday
- beforehand; in advance
- to set; to set up; to install; setting; preferences