- public square; plaza
- to be witness to; witness; evidence
- (of a newspaper or magazine) to publish (an article, story, report etc); to carry
- collected works
- to put to the torch (idiom); to commit to the flames; to burn sth down deliberately
- 逮 dǎi: 逮 dai3: (coll.) to catch; to seize; to capture逮 dài: 逮 dai4: (literary) to reach; used in 逮捕[dai4 bu3] (Taiwan pr. [dai3])
- to be shattered; to be annihilated (of hope, illusions etc)
- to forecast; to anticipate; expectation
- to celebrate a birthday
- flower; fresh flowers; CL:朵[duo3]
- song
- to sing (for an audience); vocal performance
- (TV or radio) program; show; item; act; segment; number (on the program of a concert, variety show or cultural event); a planned activity (in one's schedule); CL:場|场[chang3],項|项[xiang4],臺|台[tai2],套[tao4],檔|档[dang4]
- to maintain (that sth is true); to determine (a fact); determination (of an amount); of the firm opinion; to believe firmly; to set one's mind on; to identify with
- to sway to and fro; to rock back and forth
- 文 wén: 文 wen2: language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67文 Wén: 文 Wen2: surname Wen
- collect; collection; dense; grassy; thick; assemble; gather
- congratulatory letter or message
- to sum up; to conclude; summary; résumé; CL:個|个[ge4]
- (idiom) to be famous far and wide
- happy; blissful
- hard to (predict, imagine etc)
- to run away; to escape
- country or countryside; native place; home village or town; township (PRC administrative unit)
- cautious; prudent
- plague; pestilence
- a torment; a trial; tribulation; a cross (to bear); well-tried
- readily; flatly (deny, admit and so on); a mouthful; a bite
- to be proficient in; to master (a subject)
- to read and reread sth until one is familiar with it
- Homer, poet of ancient Greece
- Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), French novelist and short story writer
- to arrange; to set up; to lay out; to assign (tasks, homework etc)
- pot; pan; wok; cauldron; pot-shaped thing; CL:口[kou3],隻|只[zhi1]
- bowl; cup; CL:隻|只[zhi1],個|个[ge4]
- dipper; ladle
- spoon; ladle; CL:把[ba3]; abbr. for 公勺[gong1 shao2], centiliter (unit of volume)
- nightgown
- cook; chef
- remarkable (performance, achievement etc); worthy of praise
- lit. to see only the other rider's dust and have no hope of catching up (idiom); to be far inferior
- in a word; in short; in brief
- fear; to dread; I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe