Vocabulary: 鄙视
- corner (junction of two walls)
- to pass water; to piss; to urinate; to wee wee
- lit. men's footprints are rare (idiom); fig. off the beaten track; lonely; deserted
- muddy; mud
- lower course of a river; low-class; mean and lowly; vulgar; obscene
- dirty; filthy; vile; despicable; (literary) narrow-minded; petty
- toilet; lavatory; CL:間|间[jian1],處|处[chu4]
- to defame; to libel; to defile; to smear; to vilify
- to reduce; to lower; to bring down
- standard; norm; criterion; (adjective) standard; good; correct; conforming to a standard
- individuality; personality
- would rather ... (than ...)
- to wrinkle; wrinkled; to crease
- to approve; to endorse; (literary) to assist
- to threaten; to menace
- 蛇 yí: 蛇 yi2: used in 委蛇[wei1 yi2]蛇 shé: 蛇 she2: snake; serpent; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- hissing sound (onom.)
- panting with rage
- scarlet fever
- hidden anguish; secret suffering; (medicine) dull pain
- to pray for; to appeal
- to receive in no small measure
- to bellow; to rave; to snarl
- frantic; berserk
- to cross over (by ferry); transition; interim; caretaker (administration)
- a slap on the face; CL:記|记[ji4]
- normal state
- humble
- (idiom) it's a deal; that's settled then
- nervous exhaustion; neurasthenia; mental breakdown (often used to describe what is now understood to be clinical depression)
- 说法 shūo fǎ: 说法 shuo1 fa3: to expound Buddhist teachings说法 shūo fa: 说法 shuo1 fa5: way of speaking; wording; formulation; one's version (of events); statement; theory; hypothesis; interpretation
- disparity; gap
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, author of the Divine Comedy 神曲
- to recite; to repeat from memory
- to be seated
- to restrain; to control
- bugle horn
- to read; to study (a subject); to attend (a school); to read aloud; to give (sb) a tongue-lashing (CL:頓|顿[dun4]); to miss (sb); idea; remembrance; twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿[nian4])
- see 頓挫抑揚|顿挫抑扬[dun4 cuo4 yi4 yang2]