- to perform an in-depth investigation
- unspoken rules (usually ones that codify improper behaviors such as leveraging guanxi to get favorable treatment, or coercing employees for sexual favors)
- to take an official post; to become a government employee
- qualifications; experience; seniority
- 脉 mò: 脉 mo4: see 脈脈|脉脉[mo4 mo4]脉 mài: 脉 mai4: arteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)
- course of lectures; lecture series; chair (academic position)
- to shuffle cards, dominoes or mahjong tiles etc; (fig.) to reshuffle; to reorganize; to shake up; to restructure
- opportunity cost
- (idiom) every movement; each and every move
- case; (for) instance; example; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to lift; to hold up; to cite; to enumerate; to act; to raise; to choose; to elect; act; move; deed
- dizzy
- to cover all at one glance (idiom); a panoramic view
- spacious; roomy; uncrowded; (of clothes) loose and comfortable; relaxed; free of worry; well-off; affluent
- jeans; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- to draw the outline of; to outline; to sketch; to delineate contours of; to give a brief account of
- barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless
- close range
- (of a woman) beautiful but aloof
- (idiom) to be fired up; to have one's blood racing; to be burning (with excitement, passion, anger etc)
- (literary) charming; enchanting; picturesque
- temperament; disposition
- not to mind; unconcerned
- 骑 jì: 骑 ji4: (Tw) saddle horse; mounted soldier骑 qí: 骑 qi2: to sit astride; to ride (a horse, bike etc); classifier for saddle horses
- to overlook; to look down at
- (literary) to smile
- moist; wet
- fine black hair; dried plum (sliced, as cake ingredient)
- gentle and agreeable; supple; yielding
- next-door neighbor; neighboring household
- amiable; cordial; close and dear; familiar
- lit. green plums and hobby-horse (idiom); fig. innocent children's games; childhood sweethearts; a couple who grew up as childhood friends
- to advise; to urge; to try to persuade; to exhort; to console; to soothe
- lit. to seek revenge over a dirty look (idiom); fig. small-minded; vindictive
- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔子[Kong3 zi3]
- plain; simple; guileless; down-to-earth; sincere and honest
- to approve of; to endorse; to acknowledge; to recognize; to identify oneself with
- decline to comment; not express an opinion; be noncommittal; hedge
- black bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra)
- swaying; wobbling
- to tell; to instruct; to command
- to lump together; to treat along with all the others