- soot; lampblack
- respiratory tract
- to infect; infection; (fig.) to influence
- to be caused by
- clean; to cleanse
- Hong Kong Island
- hilltop
- rich person; the rich
- lit. to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom); fig. to back out of an awkward situation; to get out on finding out what it's really like
- Thatcher (name); Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
- to return sth; to hand back
- real estate
- to return to; to retreat; regression (statistics)
- city resident; townspeople
- lease
- south; south side; southern part; to the south of
- mountain range; unbroken chain of peaks
- simple and crude
- humble abode; to live (in a tiny, cramped space)
- to grow up
- to go down a hill; (of the sun or moon) to set
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- to set aside for
- nanny; babysitter; housekeeper
- indirectly acquired; second-hand (information, equipment etc); assistant
- Toyota or Toyoda (name); Toyota, Japanese car make
- narrow
- mountain road
- Yamashita (Japanese surname)
- tunnel
- to lead to
- New Territories (in Hong Kong)
- (Tw) Sierra Leone
- Sha Tin town in New Territories, Hong Kong
- commuting
- to draw support from; with the help of
- card
- tedious; convoluted; fiddly; pedantic
- (Protestantism) Matthew
- graceful; fine; elegant
- retroflex sound (e.g. in Mandarin zh, ch, sh, r)
- usefulness; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to spread over an area
- pillow