- lit. to flood (idiom); fig. rampant; in plague proportions
- rank; grade; quality; (aesthetic) taste
- to put out; to come up with; to make (a choice, decision, proposal, response, comment etc); to issue (a permit, statement, explanation, apology, reassurance to the public etc); to draw (conclusion); to deliver (speech, judgment); to devise (explanation); to extract
- humble; petty; crude
- to progress (or increase, change etc) day by day; more (or better etc) with each passing day
- the first year of a millennium (esp. the year 2000)
- the location below sth; afterwards
- secret concern; private worry
- already
- concerned; worried; disturbed; anxious
- to pay a visit to; to see (sb)
- old age (in one's 80s, 90s, or more)
- long (tradition, history etc)
- (idiom) ruined in a short time (esp. of sth that took a long time or great effort to achieve)
- to rob; to plunder; to seize by force; to coerce; calamity; abbr. for kalpa 劫波[jie2 bo1]
- reading material
- 奶 nǎi: 奶 nai3: breast; milk; to breastfeed奶 nǎi: 奶 nai3: mother
- vast and empty
- all rivers run into the sea; use different means to obtain the same result (idiom)
- 熏 xūn: 熏 xun1: to smoke; to fumigate; to assail the nostrils; to perfume熏 xūn: 熏 xun1: fragrance; warm; to educate; to smoke; to fumigate
- most recent in the past; recent; late; recently
- flourishing; thriving
- narrow; small-minded
- to pardon; to forgive; to show tolerance; to contain; to hold; inclusive
- a power (i.e. a dominant country)
- isolated island
- nutrient
- Dickens (name); Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
- sisters; siblings; sister (school, city etc)
- Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays
- (phonetic); declivity; steep bank
- to reaffirm; to reiterate
- to belittle; to look down upon; to despise
- secretive; furtive; surreptitious
- to come one after the other