- candlelight; candlelit (vigil etc); candela, unit of luminous intensity (cd)
- sinister; vicious; wicked; evil
- lit. sinking and floating; to bob up and down on water; ebb and flow; fig. rise and fall; ups and downs of fortune; vicissitudes
- to drift and live without purpose (idiom); to drag out an ignoble existence
- buffer; to cushion; to adjust to sharp changes
- to treasure; to value; to cherish
- first place
- to depart from; to deviate from; deviation
- healthy atmosphere; moral spirit; unyielding integrity; probity; (TCM) vital energy (resistance to diseases)
- 浩然 hào rán: 浩然 hao4 ran2: vast; expansive; overwhelming浩然 Hào Rán: 浩然 Hao4 Ran2: Hao Ran (1932-2008), journalist and proletarian novelist
- stooped; hunched over
- to submit; to yield; to bow to sb's will
- to weigh in the hand; to consider; to weigh up; Taiwan pr. [dian1liang2]
- to struggle arduously
- way of handling sth; method for making; work method; recipe; practice; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 泌 bì: 泌 bi4: used in 泌陽|泌阳[Bi4 yang2] (the name of a place in Henan)泌 mì: 泌 mi4: (bound form) to secrete
- Tang Emperor Xuanzong (685-762), also known as Emperor Ming of Tang 唐明皇[Tang2 Ming2 huang2], reign name of seventh Tang emperor 李隆基[Li3 Long1 ji1], reigned 712-756
- rhyming couplet; pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway; CL:副[fu4],幅[fu2]
- chessboard
- chess piece; CL:個|个[ge4],顆|颗[ke1]; (fig.) a pawn (used by others for their own purposes)
- to annotate; annotation; comment; interpretation; to explain with notes; explanatory note
- perception (the process of perceiving sth with the senses); to sense; to feel; to detect; to be aware of
- initial; starting (point)
- vile; nasty; of very poor quality
- therefore
- open and candid (idiom); straightforward and upright
- (of actors) to make up; to disguise oneself
- to comply with; to follow (directives); to defer (to the judgment of superiors)
- normal; standard
- to pursue (a course, a policy)
- to depend on; to rely on
- passive
- frontier; border
- muscle; flesh
- to dispatch; to assign; a dispatch
- to satisfy rival demands (idiom); to get the best of both worlds; to have it both ways; to have one's cake and eat it too
- to violate; to offend