- to enter the army; to enlist
- current situation
- optimum; optimal; peak; best (athlete, movie etc)
- brothers; younger brother; CL:個|个[ge4]; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal
- to sign up; to enter one's name; to apply; to register; to enroll; to enlist
- corps; legion
- soldier; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to look forward to; to await; expectation
- first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one)
- strenuously; persistently; hard; painful
- to struggle
- rural area; village; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to initiate; to start; to found
- brand new
- to defend; to uphold; to safeguard
- motherland
- to defend; to safeguard
- home; homeland
- an ideal; a dream; ideal; perfect
- to urge; to prompt; to spur on; to order sb about
- hardly; not in the least; not at all
- pretension; affectation; putting on artificial airs
- which ones?; who?; what?
- to fabricate; to make sth up; invented
- to decorate; to adorn; to dress up; to polish (a written piece); to qualify or modify (grammar)
- 曾 zēng: 曾 zeng1: great- (grandfather, grandchild etc)曾 céng: 曾 ceng2: once; already; ever (in the past); former; previously; (past tense marker used before verb or clause)曾 Zēng: 曾 Zeng1: surname Zeng
- to pass; to spend (time); to survive; to get through
- beautiful; fine
- time; era; period of time
- distance; CL:個|个[ge4]; to be apart from
- town; cities and towns
- storm; violent commotion; fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc)
- tree
- to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle
- wire; power cord; CL:根[gen1]
- farmhouse
- to sink into; to get caught up in; to land in (a predicament)
- dark; darkly; darkness
- to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
- kitchen; CL:間|间[jian1]
- floor
- (idiom) to produce a torrent of words; to talk on and on