- according to; in the light of; contrast
- 作 zūo: 作 zuo1: (bound form) worker; (bound form) workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)作 zùo: 作 zuo4: to do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign; to regard as; to consider to be; to be; to act the part of; to feel (itchy, nauseous etc); writings; works
- to apologize
- to be in a tangle; to nag
- incoming telephone call (or telegram); to phone in; to send in a telegram; to have an instant attraction to sb; (of electricity, after an outage) to come back
- to pursue; to track down; to search
- in one's childhood
- caricature; cartoon; Japanese manga
- cultured and refined (idiom); gentle and cultivated
- white-collar; white-collar worker
- pavilion; booth; kiosk; erect
- to jump up suddenly; to bound up; to rise up in one bound
- underpants; panties; briefs
- bullet; CL:粒[li4],顆|颗[ke1],發|发[fa1]
- to arouse; to stimulate; (physics) to excite
- to contract (an illness); to be afflicted with; to suffer from
- to get people to laugh; funny; hilarious
- to curl up; to huddle; to cower; cringing
- variable factor; uncertainties; (math.) a variable
- 沙 shā: 沙 sha1: granule; hoarse; raspy; sand; powder; CL:粒[li4]; abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia沙 Shā: 沙 Sha1: surname Sha沙 shà: 沙 sha4: (dialect) to sift; to sieve
- to agree to and sign (a treaty etc)
- to guess; to conjecture; to suppose; (math.) hypothesis
- courtesy; politeness; manners; courteous; polite
- agility
- quiet; peaceful; calm
- (of a sound) to come forth; (of a sound source) to ring out; to sound; to go off
- to be willing to do sth; to be ready to do sth; to be happy to do sth; content; satisfied
- to concoct; to invent; to fabricate; to produce; to process; processing and curing (Chinese medicine)
- busy; bustling
- to slow; to slow down (the pace of)
- summit; apex; pinnacle (of one's career etc); peak (of a civilization etc)
- at that time
- to forecast; to anticipate; expectation
- road show or promotional tour (for a product etc)
- not to care
- to ease (tension); to alleviate; to moderate; to allay; to make more mild