- to cultivate; to breed; to foster; to nurture; to educate; to groom (for a position); education; fostering; culture (biology)
- (idiom) no need to tell others; let's keep this between ourselves; also pr. [bu4zu2 wei2 wai4ren2 dao4]
- to trade; to carry out commercial activities; in business
- all-around; comprehensive; total; overall
- to bloom; to blossom; to flower; (fig.) to burst; to split open; (fig.) to burst with joy; (fig.) to spring up everywhere; to flourish
- complexion
- to improve; to take a turn for the better; improvement
- dying; at one's last gasp
- to go abroad; to leave the country
- lit. bum beetle; sb who tags along; shadow; sycophant
- idea; concept; philosophy; theory
- to impose; to force upon
- to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)
- summertime
- person of outstanding talent
- glib; oily-mouthed and smooth talking
- (of people) to be incompatible; to not get along; to be unable to see eye to eye
- stiff; inflexible; also pr. [ai2 ban3]
- three generations of a family; the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou)
- still; yet; to remain; (literary) frequently; often
- understood by everyone (idiom); well known; a household name
- to pile on top of one another; layer; stratum; floor (of a building); story; (math.) sheaf; classifier for layers
- to shun; to avoid (sb); to skirt; to evade (an issue); to step back; to withdraw; to recuse (a judge etc)
- to lay bare (actual facts, secrets etc); to reveal
- during; at the time of
- et cetera; and so on ...; wait a minute!; hold on!
- not necessarily; not likely
- quantitative change
- to accumulate
- fuse (for explosives); (fig.) proximate cause; the last straw
- qualitative change; fundamental change
- (bound form) cocoon
- maggot
- to worry about; to be concerned about
- life or death
- (bound form) to decay; to decline; to wane
- very; completely; utterly; extremely; absolutely; hundred percent; to divide into ten equal parts
- specimen; sample; the root cause and symptoms of a disease
- to add; to increase
- to tear at (with the teeth, like one animal attacking another)
- at the knee (in reference to children); (salutation used in letters to parents or grandparents)
- skin; CL:層|层[ceng2],塊|块[kuai4]
- bulging