- appearance; manner; pattern; model
- learned; erudite
- to easily trust; gullible; naïve
- (idiom) to struggle on whilst at death's door
- to abandon; to desert; to renounce
- cowardice; timid
- insurance; to insure; safe; secure; be sure; be bound to; CL:份[fen4]
- prison
- to go off the stage; to fall from position of prestige; to step down (from office etc); to disentangle oneself; to get off the hook
- in imminent peril (idiom); on the brink of crisis
- calm; cool
- short period of time; a moment
- alive
- to go out; to go away (on a trip etc)
- gun salute (e.g. 21-gun salute); salvo
- fireworks
- to clarify; to fully understand
- ears
- leadership group; the leadership
- heartfelt; wholehearted; cordial
- defense; to defend
- to lapse (or terminate) an insurance
- intimate
- lit. old general; commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess; fig. old-timer; veteran
- in charge of; to control
- to feign; to pretend
- crafty plots and machinations (idiom)
- 面子 miàn zi: 面子 mian4 zi5: outer surface; the outside of sth; social prestige; face面子 miàn zi: 面子 mian4 zi5: (medicinal) powder
- to span; to stretch across; to travel across
- to set (the tone, a target etc); to lay down (the beat)
- to decide by vote; to vote
- to include; to embrace; to bring together
- pure; unadulterated; purely; completely
- to intertwine; to band together (with); to link up (with); twisted; tangled; confused; to be at a loss; to struggle (mentally) with (sth); to overthink; to feel conflicted
- to finish (a letter, a painting) at a stroke
- intermittent; off and on; discontinuous; stop-go; stammering; disjointed; inarticulate