- preface; foreword; introduction; preamble; earlier remarks; earlier words; (literary) words of the ancient thinkers
- epilogue; afterword
- creative inspiration
- to make a noise; noisy
- 翼 yì: 翼 yi4: wing; area surrounding the bullseye of a target; to assist; one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy翼 Yì: 翼 Yi4: surname Yi; alternative name for 絳|绛[Jiang4], the capital of the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period (770–475 BC)
- to be right next to; close neighbor
- monkey; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- from time to time
- to wait; to wait for
- to go on the rampage; to riot; to run amuck
- to wreak havoc; to devastate
- to cross over; to transcend; to cover distance; to overcome; to rise above
- to deposit; to store; to leave in sb's care
- dim; dark; overcast; darkness; shadow; (fig.) dismal; gloomy; somber; murky; shadowy (side)
- unmanned; uninhabited
- to pace; to stroll
- to design; to plot; to plan out; to compose; to draw a mental sketch; conception; plan; idea; composition
- (computing) read-only
- dusky
- to think over
- words and sentences
- turning point; breaking point
- to sing
- chart; diagram
- lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); fig. untold numbers; innumerable; countless
- to permeate
- old-fashioned; out of date; obsolete; antiquated
- to be on the brink of; to be on the verge of
- a burst; a fit; a peal; a spell (period of time)
- disconsolate; forlorn; grievance
- subtle
- multilayered; multilevel; multistory
- audio tape; CL:盤|盘[pan2],盒[he2]
- cemetery; graveyard
- folder; file (paper)
- soundless; silent
- eternal; everlasting; fig. to pass into eternity (i.e. to die)
- variable; changeable; fickle; impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya); ghost taking away the soul after death; to pass away; to die
- (idiom) to concentrate one's attention completely; with rapt attention
- to decline; to wane; to decay; to deteriorate
- specter; apparition; ghost