- once; already; former; previously; ever; (past tense marker used before verb or clause)
- adopted son
- rumor
- one's ancestral home (registered place of family origin, typically inherited patrilineally and recorded in official documents)
- children; sons and daughters
- crop failure; famine; debt; difficulty
- Cultural Revolution (1966-76) (abbr. for 文化大革命[Wen2 hua4 Da4 ge2 ming4])
- period of time; time; time period; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to experience; to go through; experience (CL:段[duan4],次[ci4])
- 丑 chǒu: 丑 chou3: clown; 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox; ancient Chinese compass point: 30°丑 Chǒu: 丑 Chou3: surname Chou丑 chǒu: 丑 chou3: shameful; ugly; disgraceful
- mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon); 4th earthly branch: 5–7 a.m., 2nd solar month (6th March–4th April), Year of the Rabbit; ancient Chinese compass point: 90° (east)
- 10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the Rooster; ancient Chinese compass point: 270° (west)
- see 煞有介事[sha4 you3 jie4 shi4]
- medal; decoration
- Resist US, help North Korea (1950s slogan)
- Vietnam
- Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution
- (military) marshal; commander-in-chief
- worn next to the skin; close-fitting; personal (servant etc)
- to stand guard over; (security) guard
- 将军 Jiāng jūn: 将军 Jiang1 jun1: (common place name)将军 jiāng jūn: 将军 jiang1 jun1: general; high-ranking military officer; to check or checkmate; fig. to embarrass; to challenge; to put sb on the spot
- afterwards; later; newly arrived
- to implicate; implicated; to link together
- sage; wise man; clever and knowledgeable person
- surname Deng
- public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)
- to do with difficulty; to force sb to do sth; reluctant; barely enough
- 落 lào: 落 lao4: colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds落 lùo: 落 luo4: to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out; to lower; to decline or sink; to lag or fall behind; to fall onto; to rest with; to get or receive; to write down; whereabouts; settlement落 là: 落 la4: to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind
- compared with
- feat; contribution; merits and achievements
- honor; credit; glory; (honorable) reputation; honorary
- (of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
- can't stand it; to be unable to bear; to be unable to resist
- to think over
- emptiness; void; abstract theory or guiding principles; empty or unoccupied; diffident or timid; false; humble or modest; (of health) weak; virtual; in vain
- gun barrel
- soon; in a moment; to look on as sth happens
- 越 Yuè: 越 Yue4: generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods; abbr. for Vietnam 越南越 yuè: 越 yue4: to exceed; to climb over; to surpass; the more... the more
- regret; to regret; to be sorry that
- enemy; CL:個|个[ge4]