- awe-inspiring bearing; authority; power; imposing; impressive; majestic
- to declare to be untrue; to deny
- to belittle; to disparage; to play down; to demean; to degrade; to devalue
- bait
- to stretch taut
- source (esp. of quotation or literary allusion); origin; where sth comes from
- delicate; graceful
- (bound form) male; baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- watermelon; CL:顆|颗[ke1]
- front line; military front; workface; cutting edge
- much obliged; thank you; to ask advice; (ironically or humorously) to experience; to taste
- acute spirit; dash; drive
- battlefield situation; battle progress
- staff officer; to give advice
- to come from far away
- weary
- short of; tired
- 计 Jì: 计 Ji4: surname Ji计 jì: 计 ji4: to calculate; to compute; to count; to regard as important; to plan; ruse; meter; gauge
- to pile up; to heap up; a mass; pile; heap; stack; large amount
- lit. eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom); fig. arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive
- (bound form) to increase; to augment; to add to
- kitchen stove; kitchen; mess; canteen
- “Art of War”, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1], written by Sun Tzu 孫子|孙子[Sun1 zi3]
- to reinforce; to increase troop numbers; reinforcements; extra troops
- to show; to reveal
- not to fight back; to take it lying down; to show weakness; to show one's softer side
- it can clearly be seen (that this is the case); it is (thus) clear; clear; visible
- marrow; pith; quintessence; essence
- a scout; spy
- nighttime; evening or night (e.g. classes)
- to ignite; to light; fig. to spark off (hopes, controversy, flames of revolution)
- dispirited; depressed
- (onom.) meow; cat's mewing
- exploratory; tentative
- to coerce (sb into doing sth bad); to lure (into a trap); to seduce
- to concentrate; to centralize; to focus; centralized; concentrated; to put together
- 斗 Dǒu: 斗 Dou3: abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星[Bei3 dou3 xing1]斗 dǒu: 斗 dou3: dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[sheng1] or one-tenth of a 石[dan4]; decaliter; peck; cup or dipper shaped object斗 dòu: 斗 dou4: to fight; to struggle; to condemn; to censure; to contend; to put together; coming together
- to look as if; to seem
- ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about