Vocabulary: 宠魅
- 德性 dé xing: 德性 de2 xing5: (coll.) revolting behavior; CL:副[fu4]德性 dé xìng: 德性 de2 xing4: moral integrity
- at first glance; at first sight
- kindred spirit
- to seize (the strategic high ground)
- to sway; to waver; to rock; to rattle; to destabilize; to pose a challenge to
- huge rock; boulder; monolith
- head of a snake; human smuggler
- to defer; to postpone; to put off; to retard; to slow sth down
- 延 yán: 延 yan2: to prolong; to extend; to delay延 Yán: 延 Yan2: surname Yan
- 蔓 màn: 蔓 man4: creeper; to spread蔓 mán: 蔓 man2: used in 蔓菁[man2 jing5]
- to slow down
- (bound form) to patronize; to support; to aid; (bound form) to praise; to laud
- (bound form) sluggish; stagnant
- mountainous region; hilly area; hilly country
- to block; to hinder; to obstruct
- to revive; (lit. and fig.) to come back to life; (religion) resurrection
- in imminent peril (idiom); on the brink of crisis
- to bomb; to bombard; CL:波[bo1],輪|轮[lun2]
- center of gravity; central core; main part
- to rescue; to render emergency aid
- close to death; life-threatening (illness)
- physique; build
- to nibble away at sth; to eat into; to erode
- to stop; to bar the way
- to reinforce (a structure); to strengthen
- the earth quaked, the mountains shook (idiom); a tremendous battle
- remains; wreckage
- hole; hollow; depression; low-lying
- smoke (from guns)
- to evaluate; to make one's judgment