- to accomplish; to achieve
- to do what one is told; obedient
- to criticize
- long-term; long-range
- omen; portent; sign
- to sulk; to squabble
- needless to say; it goes without saying
- 活路 húo lù: 活路 huo2 lu4: through road; way out; way to survive; means of subsistence活路 húo lu: 活路 huo2 lu5: labor; physical work
- lit. an easy drive on a familiar path (idiom); fig. experience makes progress easy; a task that is so familiar one can do it with one's hand tied behind one's back
- enthusiasm for doing sth
- only
- height; level; (music) pitch; relative superiority; propriety; discretion (usu. in the negative, e.g. 不知高低[bu4 zhi1 gao1 di1]); no matter what; just; simply (will not ..., must ... etc); at long last
- to reveal (indirectly, implicitly); to show (interest, contempt etc) by means of one's actions, tone of voice etc
- to ask (a question) in reply; to answer a question with a question; rhetorical question
- odd; strange; uncanny; (bound form) monster; supernatural being; to find strange; to regard as odd; to blame; (coll.) somewhat; rather
- many times; on more than one occasion
- to toss and turn (sleeplessly); again and again
- character; temperament; disposition; bad temper; CL:股[gu3]
- to be unable to extricate oneself gracefully; to be put on the spot; to be embarrassed
- to have no right; to have no authority
- deeply grateful
- second half of the night (from midnight to sunrise)
- original spot; previous place; where it was before
- to get a footing
- long-time; long-term; lasting; enduring; permanent; for a long time
- breakthrough; to overcome an obstacle quickly
- natural moat
- 吉 Jí: 吉 Ji2: short name for Jilin 吉林[Ji2 lin2]; surname Ji吉 jí: 吉 ji2: lucky; giga- (meaning billion or 10^9)
- red; pellet; powder; cinnabar
- duke; dukedom
- (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc)
- 休 Xīu: 休 Xiu1: surname Xiu休 xīu: 休 xiu1: to rest; to stop doing sth for a period of time; to cease; (imperative) don't
- to abandon; to relinquish; to discard; to throw away
- 英 yīng: 英 ying1: hero; outstanding; excellent; (literary) flower; blossom英 Yīng: 英 Ying1: United Kingdom; British; England; English; abbr. for 英國|英国[Ying1 guo2]
- the Second (of numbered kings); second generation (e.g. Chinese Americans)
- 夫 fū: 夫 fu1: husband; man; manual worker; conscripted laborer (old)夫 fú: 夫 fu2: (classical) this, that; he, she, they; (exclamatory final particle); (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
- to separate (married couple); to live apart (of husband and wife, family members)