- steady; earnest; staid
- (wool) sweater; CL:件[jian4]
- in addition; extra
- light color
- double; twice; simultaneous; holding two or more (official) posts at the same time
- aside; to the side of
- artist; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- painting; picture
- 圣 kū: 圣 ku1: (literary) to dig with persistent effort (e.g. to gather wild vegetables)圣 shèng: 圣 sheng4: (bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc); (bound form) peerless individual; paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc); (bound form) holy; sacred
- Michel or Mitchell (name); George Mitchell (1933-), US Democratic party politician and diplomat, influential in brokering Northern Ireland peace deal in 1990s, US Middle East special envoy from 2009
- spire; minaret
- (formal) widow
- (literary) term of address between husbands of sisters; (used to transliterate foreign names); (used in Chinese women's names)
- to send; to give as a present
- to raise; to increase; to improve
- long and difficult trek
- to be carried away by one's wishful thinking (idiom); to labor under a delusion; wishful thinking
- desk; CL:張|张[zhang1]
- drawer
- to need urgently; to need doing without delay
- to repair; to fix; to prune; to trim; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb
- University of Oxford
- to entrust; to trust; to commission
- to spruce up; to renovate; to tend (a garden); to groom (one's hair); to finish (a rough surface); to trim (a lawn); to touch up (a photo)
- friendly
- to rock; to sway; to shake
- 差事 chāi shi: 差事 chai1 shi5: errand; assignment; job; commission; CL:件[jian4]; see also 差使[chai1 shi5]差事 chà shì: 差事 cha4 shi4: poor; not up to standard
- house; building; CL:所[suo3],套[tao4]
- maintenance (of equipment); to protect and maintain
- lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head); I don't understand a word (idiom); it's all Greek to me
- chubby
- beaming; all smiles
- a skill; mastery of a trade; by oneself; without outside help
- apple pie