Vocabulary: 宠魅
- 拓 tà: 拓 ta4: to make a rubbing (e.g. of an inscription)拓 Tùo: 拓 Tuo4: surname Tuo拓 tùo: 拓 tuo4: to expand; to push sth with the hand; to develop; to open up
- outside (a country's) borders
- sect; school (group of followers of a particular doctrine)
- tyrant; despot
- (of a sports competition or match) to commence; (of a war or battle) to break out; to perform acrobatic or choreographed fighting (in Chinese opera); to brawl; to come to blows
- (of enemy forces) to invade; to attack
- snowman; yeti
- to expel; to oust; (dialect) to chase after; to try to catch up with
- lit. barren hills and wild rivers (idiom); fig. inhospitable natural environment
- to lean forward; to lean out (of a window, door etc)
- mnemonic chant; rhyme for remembering (arithmetic tables, character stroke order etc)
- traitor (to China)
- (literary) spring night; (fig.) wedding night; (fig.) night of sexual bliss
- a fine thing; a wonderful thing
- (old) commanding general; commander-in-chief; (Qing dynasty) title for a governor-general (provincial military governor) 總督|总督[zong3 du1]
- to work extra hours; to do overtime
- 大汉 Dà hàn: 大汉 Da4 han4: Han Dynasty大汉 dà hàn: 大汉 da4 han4: burly fellow
- shoe; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- (derogatory) unruly people
- turtledove; (literary) to gather
- lightning speed; amazingly rapid; incredible pace of development
- paw; claw
- observation tower; lookout tower
- great kindness; magnificent hospitality
- (reduplicated) whether... or...; never mind; fine (indicating acceptance or resignation)
- the whole world at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity
- evil creature (multipurpose curse); evil domestic animal
- sincere, well-meant, kind words
- (idiom) to work against the interests of sb one derives support from; to double-cross one's employer; to bite the hand that feeds
- to revere everything foreign and pander to overseas powers (idiom); blind worship of foreign goods and ideas