- not long (after); before too long; soon; soon after
- appearance; manner; bearing; deportment; look; expression; mien
- arrogant; haughty; proud
- as cold as ice and frost (idiom, usually of woman); icy manner; frigid
- 弄 nòng: 弄 nong4: to do; to manage; to handle; to play with; to fool with; to mess with; to fix; to toy with弄 lòng: 弄 long4: lane; alley
- lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love; fascinated; captivated
- lit. to order people by pointing the chin (idiom); to signal orders by facial gesture; arrogant and bossy
- shameless
- to control
- to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb
- submissive; docile; obedient
- docile and obedient; all obedience
- 咳 hāi: 咳 hai1: sound of sighing; (interjection expressing surprise, sorrow, regret, disappointment etc) oh; damn; wow咳 ké: 咳 ke2: cough
- reason; cause
- to shift (funds); to (legitimately) take funds set aside for one purpose in order to use them for another; to embezzle; to misappropriate
- public money
- (of a plot etc) to fall through and stand exposed
- noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke
- sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion; everything turned on its head
- father's younger brother; paternal uncle; form of address used by children for a male one generation older
- in the dark; in secret; on the sly; surreptitiously
- to bribe; to get (luggage) ready; to put in order; to organize things; (baseball) RBI (run batted in)
- situation; existing state of affairs
- at long last; finally; on the whole
- to expand; to enlarge; to broaden one's scope
- future (career etc) prospects
- at this point; thus; from then on
- to forfeit (future profit, one's life etc); ruined
- to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking
- to recruit; to enlist
- colony
- and; besides; moreover; furthermore; in addition
- to pay in advance; to get payment in advance
- (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this
- 钱 Qián: 钱 Qian2: surname Qian钱 qián: 钱 qian2: coin; money; CL:筆|笔[bi3]; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩|两[liang3]
- immediately; at once; right away
- to think of; to call to mind; to anticipate
- to be bound to; to be sure to
- 差使 chāi shǐ: 差使 chai1 shi3: to send; to assign; to appoint; servants of an official; official messenger差使 chāi shi: 差使 chai1 shi5: official post; billet; commission; CL:件[jian4]; see also 差事[chai1 shi5]
- beforehand; in advance
- to extend; to spread
- plantation
- cross; crucifix; yoke one has to endure
- amount; number
- to grow; to increase