- Cambridge
- illustration
- unknown number; (fig.) an unknown; an uncertainty
- bright future; bright prospects
- to be trapped; to be imprisoned
- to humiliate; humiliating
- to recount; to tell of; to relate; (fig.) (of a thing) to stand as testament to (some past history)
- lonely; solitary
- to be deficient in sth; to be short of sth (supplies, money etc)
- to decorate; to adorn; sprinkled; studded; only for show
- can be expected (to); to be expected (to); hopefully (happening)
- see 黃埔區|黄埔区[Huang2 pu3 Qu1]
- hard; solid
- quietly; sorrowfully
- to subside; to sink; to cave in
- to wind around; to wrap round; to coil; tangle; to involve; to bother; to annoy
- to pull tight; tensioning
- to chant; to recite
- to raise; to hold up; to lift up
- Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei
- Western Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms (400-421)
- 毕 Bì: 毕 Bi4: surname Bi毕 bì: 毕 bi4: the whole of; to finish; to complete; complete; full; finished
- to question closely; to investigate in detail; to examine minutely; to get to the heart of the matter
- Nanjing, sub-provincial city and capital of Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省[Jiang1 su1 Sheng3]
- sand; grit; CL:粒[li4],把[ba3]
- nine-tenths; ninety percent
- politburo
- fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky)
- sleeveless garment (vest, waistcoat, singlet, tank top etc); CL:件[jian4]
- to suffer wear and tear; to deteriorate through use; to wear out
- unimaginable; outrageous; freakish
- 太虚 Tài xū: 太虚 Tai4 xu1: Taixu (famed Buddhist monk, 1890-1947)太虚 tài xū: 太虚 tai4 xu1: great emptiness; the void; heaven; the skies; universe; cosmos; original essence of the cosmos