- trifle; trivial matter; CL:點|点[dian3]
- major event; major political event (war or change of regime); major social event (wedding or funeral); (do sth) in a big way; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- inscription on a tablet
- (used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ...
- reign name (1909-1911) of the last Qing emperor Pu Yi 溥儀|溥仪
- Das Kapital (1867) by Karl Marx 卡爾·馬克思|卡尔·马克思[Ka3 er3 · Ma3 ke4 si1]
- apprentice; disciple
- that's fine; may as well; (reduplicated) regardless of whether ... or ...
- incessantly; without end; more than; not limited to
- political party; faction
- to assent; to comply with
- dilemma; quandary; to face a difficult choice
- quiet; peaceful; calm
- to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune; trouble; danger; worry
- married woman; Mrs.; Madam; wife; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- heart; CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
- to expand; to enlarge; to broaden one's scope
- to cough up blood; (coll.) (used figuratively to indicate an extreme degree of anger or frustration etc)
- a monument; an upright stone tablet; stele; CL:塊|块[kuai4],面[mian4]
- to fall; to drop; to lag behind; to lose; to go missing; to reduce; fall (in prices); to lose (value, weight etc); to wag; to swing; to turn; to change; to exchange; to swap; to show off; to shed (hair); (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)
- oracle script; oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
- like that; in that way; to that extent; (before a number) ... or so; about ...; then; in that case
- Li Shangyin (c. 813-858), Tang poet
- to go out
- as if; to seem like
- aroused; excited
- to undergo (hardship); to endure; to withstand
- to divert oneself from (loneliness, grief etc); to dispel (negative thoughts etc)
- accomplished; elegant
- ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs; pot (dialect); to enter upon a period of (classical); Kangxi radical 206; one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes
- the Northern Expedition, the Nationalists' campaign of 1926-1928 under Chiang Kai-shek, against the rule of local warlords
- to benefit from; thanks to
- to evolve from
- heartfelt; sincere; unfeigned
- tall; towering