Vocabulary: 宠魅
- competition of skill (e.g. sports); athletics tournament
- to optimize; (corporate euphemism) to lay off staff
- to be ahead of one's time; to surpass or outdo one's predecessors; to be ahead of the pack; to take the lead; advanced
- to go forward together (idiom); to undertake simultaneous tasks; going hand in hand
- (phonetic); see 婆娑[po2 suo1]
- row
- (bound form) to flee; to escape; (bound form) leisurely; relaxed; (bound form) to surpass the ordinary; outstanding; (bound form) reclusive
- to cheat; to swindle; to pretend; to feign; to draw sb out; to try to extract information by deceit or bluff
- to be convinced; to accept
- hanging one's head dispiritedly (idiom); dejected; crestfallen
- holly
- to twist words and force logic (idiom); sophistry; loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument; shoving false arguments down people's throats
- all smiles; smiling mischievously or ingratiatingly
- hoodlum; rascal; rogue; rascally; scoundrelly
- confluence; to converge; to join; to fuse; fusion
- evening meal; dinner; supper; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4],餐[can1]
- to give a dinner party; to entertain guests; to invite to dinner
- to decline (an appointment, invitation etc)
- good wine; fine liquor
- culinary delicacy; fine food; gourmet food
- to consider oneself as; to believe oneself to be
- modest; self-effacing; to make modest remarks
- border; horizon; shore
- shop owner
- vegetable and meat dishes; dish
- red; rosy; flushed
- strong; intense; spirited; virulent
- jackals of the same tribe (idiom); fig. They are all just as bad as each other.
- to be on duty (of a security guard etc)
- strong alcoholic drink
- to intensify; to speed up; to step up
- to pour; to deliberate
- wine (esp. rice wine); liquor; spirits; alcoholic beverage; CL:杯[bei1],瓶[ping2],罐[guan4],桶[tong3],缸[gang1]
- to knock down; to mow down