- to burn; to ignite; to light; fig. to spark off (hopes); to start (debate); to raise (hopes)
- terrorist
- to set up camp; Taiwan pr. [an1 ying2 zha2 zhai4]
- 围城 Wéi chéng: 围城 Wei2 cheng2: Fortress Besieged, 1947 novel by Qian Zhongshu 錢鍾書|钱钟书[Qian2 Zhong1 shu1], filmed as a TV serial围城 wéi chéng: 围城 wei2 cheng2: siege; besieged city
- to elaborate (on a theme); to expound (the classics); perfunctory; to skimp; to botch; to do sth half-heartedly or just for show; barely enough to get by
- 藉 Jí: 藉 Ji2: surname Ji藉 jí: 藉 ji2: (literary) to tread on; to insult; used in 狼藉[lang2 ji2]藉 jiè: 藉 jie4: (literary) cushion; mat; (literary) to put some padding underneath
- to eliminate; to expel; to abolish
- grand; majestic; magnificent
- to be pleased beyond one's expectations (idiom); overjoyed at the turn of events
- hurriedly; in haste
- river that flows only within a country's borders; inland waterway (esp. for transportation, in contrast to coastal or maritime waters)
- waterway; ship channel
- to arrest; to capture; to seize; to win (a set, a game etc)
- see 沿河土家族自治縣|沿河土家族自治县[Yan2 he2 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
- to be a suspect (in a crime); to be suspected of
- to urge (an activity that may be beneficial, harmful or neutral); to encourage; to agitate; to instigate; to incite; to beat; to flap (wings, a fan etc)
- to resist; to boycott; to refuse (to cooperate); to reject; resistance; refusal
- to impose martial law; to impose emergency measures
- to have no alternative; frustrated; exasperated; helpless; (conjunction) but unfortunately
- to postpone; to keep putting sth off
- rampant; unbridled; arrogant; aggressive
- tactics
- outer city; suburb
- to camp; to pitch camp; stationed; quartered; Taiwan pr. [zha2 ying2]
- official letter
- to besiege (a town)
- headquarters; command post
- verdant
- cape (geography); headland
- (lit. and fig.) to pollute; to contaminate
- water source; water supply; headwaters of a river
- decomposed corpse
- 井 Jǐng: 井 Jing3: Jing, one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy; surname Jing井 jǐng: 井 jing3: a well; CL:口[kou3]; neat; orderly
- the top and bottom of sth; the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom; to go up and down; before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context"); (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so; (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates"); all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation"); relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")
- to drift about; to move unsteadily; (fig.) to fluctuate; to rise and fall; to be changeable; (economics) (of a currency or rate etc) to float
- lakeside
- thirsty
- infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease
- pointless; meaningless; unnecessarily