Vocabulary: 宠魅
- comparatively; relatively; fairly
- junior; primary
- (idiom) to kill sb to prevent them from revealing sth
- a thousand miles; a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers); a long distance
- weaponry; to hold (a weapon); to wield; to rely on; to depend on; war; battle
- the marketplace (i.e. the world of business and commerce)
- disciple; follower; hanger-on (at an aristocrat's home)
- silt; sludge; ooze
- echelon; tier; batch (in a sequence); in succession; tier by tier; in batches (according to a set order)
- to swell; to bulge
- 挨 āi: 挨 ai1: in order; in sequence; close to; adjacent to挨 ái: 挨 ai2: to suffer; to endure; to pull through (hard times); to delay; to stall; to play for time; to dawdle
- to peel off; to strip off
- to go through; to pass through; to thread one's way through
- to evade; to dodge (out of the way)
- to fasten tightly with a hoop
- wound; cut
- weak; feeble
- to turn up one's nose; to show disdain for; to regard superciliously
- to lose one's life
- 磐石 pán shí: 磐石 pan2 shi2: boulder磐石 Pán shí: 磐石 Pan2 shi2: see 磐石市[Pan2 shi2 Shi4]
- 扣 kòu: 扣 kou4: to fasten; to button; button; buckle; knot; to arrest; to confiscate; to deduct (money); discount; to knock; to smash, spike or dunk (a ball); to cover (with a bowl etc); (fig.) to tag a label on sb; (Tw) (loanword) code扣 kòu: 扣 kou4: button
- to emerge and perish on its own; to run its course (idiom)
- to deliberately withhold essential knowledge or skills as strategic insurance (typically to maintain leverage, avoid being replaced, or preserve authority in hierarchical relationships)