- overall situation
- to link up; to thread together
- (idiom) to complement one another
- to infer; to judge; inference; judgment; conclusion
- broad; extensive
- several; three or five
- area; region; district
- comparison; differences and similarities
- good and bad; merits and drawbacks
- word order
- to decline; to wane; weakened; enfeebled; in decline
- History of the Song Dynasty, twentieth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed under Toktoghan 脫脫|脱脱[Tuo1 tuo1] in 1345 during the Yuan Dynasty 元[Yuan2], 496 scrolls; (not to be confused with 宋書|宋书[Song4 shu1])
- to hold by the hand; fig. to nurture; to foster; to bring up; to support
- in disguised form; covert
- to keep on fighting in spite of all setbacks (idiom); to be undaunted by repeated setbacks; to be indomitable
- it would be better
- to threaten the east and strike to the west (idiom); to create a diversion
- to lash; (fig.) to castigate
- vital part; (fig.) key point; crucial
- to detour; to bypass; to circumvent; to avoid; to wind around (of a road etc)
- have wide learning and a retentive memory; have encyclopedic knowledge
- at a glance; (in book titles) overview
- (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official)
- fulcrum (for a lever)
- sight; vision; visual
- to cherish the outmoded and preserve the outworn (idiom); conservative; stickler for tradition
- frame of reference; coordinate frame (math.)
- violent; acute; severe; fierce
- resurgence; recovery; restoration
- to be full of; to flood; to congest
- 扣 kòu: 扣 kou4: to fasten; to button; button; buckle; knot; to arrest; to confiscate; to deduct (money); discount; to knock; to smash, spike or dunk (a ball); to cover (with a bowl etc); (fig.) to tag a label on sb; (Tw) (loanword) code扣 kòu: 扣 kou4: button