- platoon leader; sergeant
- dispirited; dejected; dismayed
- to intend; intentionally; interested in
- worker; laborer
- food; meals
- large scale; extensive; wide scale; broad scale
- 觉 jué: 觉 jue2: to feel; to find that; thinking; awake; aware觉 jiào: 觉 jiao4: a nap; a sleep; CL:場|场[chang2]
- to drop out of school; to leave off studying; to interrupt one's studies
- to provide assistance; to support; to back
- dad and mom
- not to care
- according to statistics
- purpose; aim; goal; target; objective
- (category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)
- to summarize; to generalize; briefly; in broad outline
- hundred thousand
- Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, also known as XPCC or Bingtuan ("the Corps"), a state-owned economic and paramilitary organization in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
- to be abbreviated to; abbreviation; short form
- large military unit; formation; corps; army
- a member (of an organization)
- Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang
- Gurbantunggut Desert, northern Xinjiang
- river; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- reservoir; CL:座[zuo4]
- dam; dike
- waterway
- to dig out; to excavate; to scoop out; to start digging
- channel; moat; irrigation canal
- hectare
- shrub; shrubbery
- woodland
- farmland; cultivated land
- New York state
- 天山 Tiān shān: 天山 Tian1 shan1: see 天山區|天山区[Tian1 shan1 Qu1]天山 Tiān Shān: 天山 Tian1 Shan1: Tian Shan, mountain range straddling the border between China and Kyrgyzstan
- article; essay; literary works; writings; hidden meaning; CL:篇[pian1],段[duan4],頁|页[ye4]
- active; lively; excited; to enliven; to brighten up