Vocabulary: 宠魅
- 辟 bì: 辟 bi4: (literary) king; monarch; (literary) (of a sovereign) to summon to official service辟 pì: 辟 pi4: penal law辟 pì: 辟 pi4: to open (a door); to open up (for development); to dispel; to refute; to repudiate; (bound form) penetrating; incisive
- to perform a sword-dance
- dragon (as a decorative design)
- to burst forth; to spurt; to crack; split
- longitudinal; vertical
- axle; (fig.) central element; key element; axis (alliance of nations)
- to comply with; to follow (directives); to defer (to the judgment of superiors)
- damaging storm; destructive typhoon
- to set foot on (a foreign land etc); to tread; (fig.) to enter (a new sphere)
- (idiom) to kill on sight (without fear of prosecution)
- the sun and moon; day and month; every day and every month; season; life and livelihood
- leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc)
- to give a name to; to dub; to christen; to designate; named after; naming
- (idiom) wild and stormy; windy and wet
- to go out to sea; (neologism) to expand into overseas markets
- one falls, the next follows (idiom); stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades; advancing wave upon wave
- coastal; seacoast
- precipice
- silt
- obese; bloated; swollen (style); (fig.) (of an organization) oversized or overstaffed
- to beat and scold
- to make a mistake; error
- surname Deng
- shy
- rainforest
- to go out to sea; to enter the sea (to swim etc); (fig.) to take the plunge (e.g. leave a secure job, or enter prostitution etc)
- fat (e.g. pork fat); fatty meat; (fig.) a gold mine; cash cow
- regeneration through one's own effort (idiom); self-reliance