- promise
- to burn; to scorch
- wound; cut
- deep in one's heart
- to have; to possess; to own
- split second
- gloomy; sinister; eerie
- ugly; repulsive
- lower course of a river; low-class; mean and lowly; vulgar; obscene
- meaning; implication; flavor; overtone; to mean; to imply; (Tw) to get a sense of
- to press; to push (a button)
- incidentally; occasional; occasionally; by chance; randomly
- to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc); to cast (a ballot); to cast (a glance, a shadow etc); to put in (money for investment, a coin to operate a slot machine); to send (a letter, a manuscript etc); to throw oneself into (a river, a well etc to commit suicide); to go to; to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of; (coll.) to rinse (clothes) in water
- blood; (fig.) lifeblood
- to pound; to rap
- temple (on the sides of human head)
- disappointed; to lose hope; to despair
- to take a beating; to come under attack
- to foreordain; to be bound to; to be destined to; to be doomed to; inevitably
- to murder; to assassinate; intentional homicide
- to raise; to hoist; to rise
- to threaten; to menace
- suffering
- foot; leg (of an animal or an object); base (of an object); CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]; classifier for kicks
- dwelling
- unhappy; in low spirits; (of a knife) not sharp
- widely different; utterly different
- to make a promise
- not having undergone; without (having gone though a certain process)
- mature reflection; after careful deliberations
- to ravage; to ruin
- (used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ...
- to liberate; to emancipate; liberation; refers to the Communists' victory over the Nationalists in 1949; CL:次[ci4]
- wing; CL:隻|只[zhi1],對|对[dui4]
- mind; memory
- to go to school; to attend school
- to give oneself wholly to; to put oneself at sb's service; (of a woman) to give one's body to; to marry
- to abandon; to discard; to renounce; to dump (sb)
- indignant; furious
- to make reprisals; to retaliate; revenge; retaliation
- lit. not cold, yet shivering (idiom); fig. to tremble with fear; to be terrified
- lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom); fig. pitch dark; to black out; disorderly; troubled times
- to run through; a connecting thread from beginning to end; to link
- compared with
- to face sth; to be confronted with
- unknown