- preconditions
- to run away; to escape
- to wake up
- to size sb up; to look sb up and down; to take the measure of; to suppose; to reckon
- to recall; to think of; to call to mind
- yesterday evening; last night
- to get away; to escape (from obligations); to free oneself; to disengage
- to remember
- to have spare time; free from work; it's not important; it's nothing; never mind
- to make oneself presentable; to freshen up
- 通 tòng: 通 tong4: classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)通 tōng: 通 tong1: to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
- to sigh; to exclaim
- one breath; in one breath; at a stretch
- usual; customary
- smile; CL:個|个[ge4],絲|丝[si1]; to smile
- 尽 jǐn: 尽 jin3: to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to尽 jìn: 尽 jin4: to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of sth); all; entirely
- to give it your all; to go at it with all you've got; to throw your whole weight behind it; also pr. [hun2 shen1 jie3 shu4]
- to show concern and care for
- to the utmost; in every possible way
- thoughtful; considerate; attentive; thorough; also pr. [zhou1 dao5]
- to share (let others have some of sth good)
- breakfast; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4]
- to do what one is told; obedient
- to lock; to be locked
- to lead along; to pull (an animal on a tether); (bound form) to involve; to draw in
- shade of a tree; Taiwan pr. [shu4yin4]
- to fall downward in a scattered, lightly sprinkled manner (as light, petals, leaves etc); (literary) carefree and unrestrained; natural and elegant
- 约 yuē: 约 yue1: to make an appointment; to invite; approximately; pact; treaty; to economize; to restrict; to reduce (a fraction); concise约 yāo: 约 yao1: to weigh in a balance or on a scale
- channel; moat; irrigation canal
- to separate; to isolate
- to try one's luck; to leave sth to chance
- luck (good or bad)
- how? (emphatic question)
- to follow the path to one's own doom (idiom); to bring about one's own destruction
- feeble-minded; dim-witted
- iron chain