- to drift about; to move unsteadily; (fig.) to fluctuate; to rise and fall; to be changeable; (economics) (of a currency or rate etc) to float
- to entice; to lure; to induce; to attract
- to bare fangs and brandish claws (idiom); to make threatening gestures
- to drift apart; to become estranged; to alienate; estrangement
- want to stop but can't (idiom); to be unable to stop oneself; to feel an urge to continue
- oppressive (of weather); heavy; depressed; not happy; (of sound) dull; muffled
- excessive; undue; unduly; overly
- to add or gain sth without additional effort; to add sth without good cause
- misty rain; drizzle
- elegant; refined; in good taste
- to forget
- 曹 cáo: 曹 cao2: class or grade; generation; plaintiff and defendant (old); government department (old)曹 Cáo: 曹 Cao2: surname Cao; Zhou Dynasty vassal state
- reed
- reed; Phragmites communis
- traditional Chinese style
- sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old); classifier for written items: chapter, article
- very long; endless
- minute
- (coll.) a short while; a moment
- to find a place for; to help settle down; to arrange for; undisturbed; peaceful
- lit. to open the door and see the mountain; fig. to get right to the point (idiom)
- to wash the face
- to banter; to crack jokes; to ridicule
- region; area (informal or geographical term); prefecture (in China's administrative system)
- that level or higher; that amount or more; the above-mentioned; (used to indicate that one has completed one's remarks) That is all.
- qualifications; seniority
- treatment; pay; salary; status; rank
- knowledge; CL:門|门[men2]; intellectual
- title; official rank
- to conduct; to command; to direct; conductor (of an orchestra); CL:個|个[ge4]
- unit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole); work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform); CL:個|个[ge4]
- administration; (attributive) administrative; executive
- scallion; green onion
- real power; genuine power
- to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground; tricky and inconstant; to make love
- one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
- district chief
- low ranking official; petty bureaucrat
- imperceptibly; virtually