- various; many different kinds of
- circumstance(s) encountered in one's life (favorable or otherwise); stroke of luck; opportunity
- First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
- Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895), concluding the First Sino-Japanese War 甲午戰爭|甲午战争[Jia3 wu3 Zhan4 zheng1]
- (idiom) a great humiliation; a huge embarrassment
- surging tide; (fig.) tide; craze; rage; spree
- to boast; to blow one's own horn
- to direct; director (film etc)
- (idiom) world-shaking
- theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute; severe
- lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth; many new things emerge in rapid succession
- Communist Party of China
- surging forward with great momentum; unfolding on a magnificent scale
- year after year; with each passing year; over the years
- to go up by one grade; to be promoted; to escalate (in intensity); (computing) to upgrade
- tide
- Second Revolution, campaign from 1913 of the provisional revolutionary government (under Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang) against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] and the Northern Warlords
- to celebrate
- amazed
- signboard; shop sign; reputation of a business
- imminent danger (idiom); approaching a crisis
- unrealistic; impractical
- desert; CL:個|个[ge4]
- (fig.) (of one's actions) blind; unthinking
- to farm; to cultivate the land; to work in the fields
- to defect; to betray; to mutiny
- suddenly; sudden
- lit. to kill people like scything flax (idiom); fig. to kill people like flies
- to frighten; to horrify; to terrify
- to be covered with; to be filled with
- beach; sandy shore; CL:片[pian4]
- earthquake