- to be away from home; to live away from one's family
- to suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out; to get the worst of it; to be at a disadvantage; unfortunately
- acrobatics; jugglery; trick; ploy
- qualities that make sth worth seeing (or reading)
- to cover; to encase; cover; sheath; to overlap; to interleave; to model after; to copy; formula; harness; loop of rope; (fig.) to fish for; to obtain slyly; classifier for sets, collections; bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names); tau (Greek letter Ττ)
- to wake sb up with a noise
- impatient; to lose patience
- mouth; in the mouth; on one's lips; speech; words
- to talk about often; to reminisce about; to keep repeating; to keep harping on; to discuss
- profanity; obscene language; speaking rudely
- 假 jià: 假 jia4: vacation假 gēi: 假 gei1: used in 假掰[gei1 bai1]假 jiǎ: 假 jia3: fake; false; artificial; to borrow; if; suppose假 jiǎ: 假 jia3: to borrow
- to coordinate outside and inside offensives (idiom); (fig.) to act together
- to conform (with); to echo; to correlate well; (linguistics) agreement
- solely; just
- to have a look
- the teeming world; the world of sensual pleasures
- monstrous and multicolored; grotesque and variegated
- bookworm; pedant; bookish fool
- (dialect) what
- not worth
- diploma
- elementary school; primary school
- graduation; to graduate; to finish school
- frigid irony and scorching satire (idiom); to mock and ridicule
- at that time; originally
- on the road; on the way; en route
- to cheat; to swindle; to deceive; to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over
- a few years; several years; how many years?
- sufficient; full; to fill; to serve as; to act as; to act falsely as; to pose as
- 待 dāi: 待 dai1: to stay; to remain待 dài: 待 dai4: to wait; to treat; to deal with; to need; going to (do sth); about to; intending to
- resentful; angry; to enrage sb
- to count on; to rely on
- scene; view; sight; landscape; to be well-regarded; to be well-off; grand (dialect); impressive (dialect)
- to bear; to endure; to tolerate; to restrain oneself
- bad thing; misdeed; to ruin things
- swindler; a cheat
- to look askance; cross or wall-eyed