- doctoral degree; PhD
- aspiration; ambition
- to seek; to look for
- to long for; to look forward to
- foundation stone; cornerstone; (fig.) basis; foundation
- to be annoyed; to get angry
- position; post; job
- to plan and prepare
- to reply (to an accusation); to defend one's dissertation
- Persia
- large; large-scale
- 史 Shǐ: 史 Shi3: surname Shi史 shǐ: 史 shi3: history; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer
- owner of enterprise
- to share (let others have some of sth good)
- to know well; to be fully aware of
- lightning; CL:道[dao4]
- to flash through (one's mind); to dodge (away from pursuers)
- mission; assignment; task; duty; role; CL:項|项[xiang4]
- strong; powerful; (linguistics) emphatic; intensive
- to advise against; to dissuade
- to undulate; to fluctuate; wave motion; rise and fall
- to entice; to lure; to induce; to attract
- to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc); (medicine) to metastasize
- together
- to die; to lose; to be gone; to flee; deceased
- to continue; to follow after; to go on with; to succeed; to inherit; then; afterwards
- to search; to look for; to seek
- short-sightedness; suicide (esp. in 尋短見|寻短见[xun2 duan3 jian4])
- to think back over sth; to review; to revisit; to rethink; reflection; reassessment
- confused; mixed up; muddled up; befuddled
- to dispel (doubts, misgivings etc); to give up on
- authority; authoritative; power and prestige
- to obey (an order); to comply; to defer
- state of mind; mood
- only; merely; nothing but; no more than; it's just that ...
- not always; not entirely; not necessarily so; not entirely correct
- sufficient to...; so much so that; so that
- to kill oneself; to commit suicide
- (idiom) endless; boundless; infinite
- to meet; to hold a meeting
- (bound form) article; commodity; product; goods; (bound form) grade; rank; kind; type; variety; character; disposition; nature; temperament; to taste sth; to sample; to criticize; to comment; to judge; to size up; fret (on a guitar or lute)
- from within; therefrom