- to store up; reserves
- area (of a floor, piece of land etc); surface area; tract of land
- extremely few; a small minority
- example; model case
- to use as an excuse; excuse; pretext
- to complain; to grumble (about); to reproach; to blame
- way; means; channel
- to reform and open to the outside world; refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980
- to rush; to charge; to dash; to break through; to temper oneself (through battling hardships)
- golden age
- the former (i.e. the one mentioned first)
- honor; glory
- to return home with honor
- to have no strength; to feel weak; exhausted; feeling listless; boring; of no interest
- to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc)
- to imagine; to assume; to envisage; tentative plan; to have consideration for
- jazz (loanword)
- trash; refuse; garbage; (coll.) of poor quality; Taiwan pr. [le4 se4]
- to redeem; redemption; salvation
- sin; crime; wrongdoing
- swimming ability; characteristics of a body of water (depth, currents etc); aqueous; water-based (paint etc)
- to drown
- a cicada in cold weather (used as a metaphor for sb who keeps their thoughts to themself); Meimuna opalifera, a kind of cicada found in East Asia
- second generation
- scar; CL:道[dao4]
- lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face; to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk
- neutral
- nightmare
- to be well aware
- to gush; to squirt; to surge; to well out; to overflow
- sensible; wise; judicious; sagacious
- scholar
- midnight; in the middle of the night
- to leave; to part from; to bid farewell to; to say goodbye to
- not having undergone; without (having gone though a certain process)
- not to mind taking all the trouble (idiom); to take great pains; to be very patient
- to arrange; to lay out