Vocabulary: 宠魅
- a staff; a rod; cane; walking stick; to flog with a stick (old)
- maternal; matriarchal
- to submit; to yield; to bow to sb's will
- pale and feeble; powerless
- broad outline; gist; summary
- reception (of transmitted signal); to receive; to accept; to admit; to take over (e.g. a factory); to expropriate
- uprising; insurrection; revolt
- (idiom) (originally, in Mencius) to cultivate one's moral character in solitude; (modern sense) to look after only one's own interests
- casualty; victim (of an accident); wounded person
- creed; doctrine; teachings
- disabled; handicapped; deformity on a person or animal
- (idiom) conscientious; assiduous
- to make people feel even more stressed or annoyed (coll.); to make traffic congestion even worse
- shameful performance; disgraceful situation
- 牧 Mù: 牧 Mu4: surname Mu牧 mù: 牧 mu4: to herd; to breed livestock; to govern (old); government official (old)
- long life
- personnel; human resources; human affairs; ways of the world; (euphemism) sexuality; the facts of life
- letter; piece of correspondence (incl. email)
- Hongmen feast; (fig.) banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest; refers to a famous episode in 206 BC when future Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] escaped attempted murder by his rival Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3]
- bone chilling wind (idiom)
- street food; snack
- lit. closed gourd; fig. enigma; complete mystery; taciturn person
- big brother
- kindergarten; nursery school
- (idiom) still a child at heart; to retain a playful spirit
- in any case; no matter what
- to lose one's way
- to use one's brains; to think
- 差事 chāi shi: 差事 chai1 shi5: errand; assignment; job; commission; CL:件[jian4]; see also 差使[chai1 shi5]差事 chà shì: 差事 cha4 shi4: poor; not up to standard
- impassable; insurmountable; insuperable
- to settle a bill; to close an account
- to open one's eyes
- day after day
- to unbalance; an imbalance