- rogue; hoodlum; gangster; immoral behavior
- bald (lacking hair or feathers); barren; bare; denuded; blunt (lacking a point); (of a piece of writing) unsatisfactory; lacking something
- layman; amateur
- free; unrestrained; to inundate
- suitable; fitting; appropriate
- to dismiss (from a post); to expel from school; to order away (servants etc)
- liver disease
- sharp and unkind (words)
- shelled peanuts
- rubber; an eraser; CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- foot; leg (of an animal or an object); base (of an object); CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]; classifier for kicks
- poliomyelitis
- (medicine) to suffer paralysis; (fig.) to be paralyzed; to break down; to come to a standstill
- everyone; owner
- thoughts surging in one's mind (idiom); different thoughts coming to mind
- to mimeograph
- summary; abstract
- first rate; top rank; number one
- Joseph (name)
- uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2]
- general; admiral; air chief marshal
- to break away; to extricate; to escape; to leave the confines of
- intimate
- to call; to address as; form of address; appellation
- top news story
- best-seller; best-selling book; blockbuster
- bookstore; CL:家[jia1]
- to thumb through; to flip through (a book)
- time and again; repeatedly; frequently
- to hurl abuse; to deride; to call sb names
- flowing (of speech, writing); fluent; smooth and easy
- to hold back; to check (i.e. to stop sb's advance); to resist; esp. with negative, irresistible, unstoppable etc
- it is exactly as
- in batches; in bulk
- to engage in fraud
- (idiom) to be kept secret; not to be divulged