- start; beginning
- quantity; fixed amount; ration
- James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓明園|圆明园 in 1860; Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), who stole the Parthenon Marbles in 1801-1810
- pen name; pseudonym
- creative; creativity
- recipient
- to be a problem; problematic; questionable
- to receive; to collect
- condition; circumstance; term; factor; requirement; prerequisite; qualification; situation; state; condition; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to seal up
- envelope
- rapid; sudden
- to redirect one's affections; (of literature etc) to cultivate people's character; empathy (i.e. attribution of feelings to an object); transference (psychology)
- deferential; respectful
- not having undergone; without (having gone though a certain process)
- to process; processing; working (of machinery)
- to inspect; to examine; to test
- to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together
- monograph; specialized text
- laborious
- stocks and chain; in fetters
- colloquial speech; spoken language; vernacular language; slander; gossip; CL:門|门[men2]
- to take down (in writing); notes; a type of literature consisting mainly of short sketches; CL:本[ben3]
- participant
- Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie; (fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth; unsolvable case
- to place great importance on; to treasure
- concise and comprehensive (idiom)
- profile; appearance
- to praise; to speak highly of; compliment; praise
- to satirize; to mock; irony; satire; sarcasm
- laughter
- to abridge (a text); to edit out (of a movie); to cut back (a budget, a curriculum)
- to straighten out; to sort out; to organize
- enthusiastic; ardent; zealous
- to divide evenly; to bisect (geometry); deuce (tennis); tied score
- taxes; duties
- subtitle (of a book etc); subheading
- 重 zhòng: 重 zhong4: heavy; serious; to attach importance to重 chóng: 重 chong2: to repeat; repetition; again; re-; classifier: layer
- oldie (song)
- to screen; to show (a movie)
- each; respective; apiece