- hot day
- since (a time); ever since
- Paris Commune 1871, an unsuccessful proletarian uprising against the French Third Republic
- commune
- (loanword) club (the organization or its premises)
- subdivision or branch of an organization; news bureau
- a guild; (in olden times) an association such as a political party, religious group or trade guild; the Japanese word for company
- to confiscate; to seize
- monk
- to auction; auction sale; to sell at a reduced price
- feudal lord; suzerain; overlord
- middle class
- wages; pay; CL:份[fen4]
- legal code; statute
- lit. tiger's head, snake's tail (idiom); fig. a strong start but weak finish
- to be all the same way (literary)
- to rise in revolt; to raise difficult questions
- Richard Nixon (1913–1994), US president 1969–1974; surname Nixon
- television; TV; CL:臺|台[tai2],部[bu4]
- how?; what?; why?
- there; that place
- 罢了 bà le: 罢了 ba4 le5: a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much)罢了 bà liǎo: 罢了 ba4 liao3: a modal particle indicating (don't mind it, ok)
- modest; self-deprecating
- to weigh; weight; measure
- misconception; illusion; misperception
- friend; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- resurrection; rebirth; reinvigorated; rejuvenated; a new lease of life
- to make painstaking efforts (idiom); after much trouble; to work hard at sth
- insulted; humiliated; disgraced
- to act in collusion (idiom); in cahoots with; villains will look after one another
- island
- Dinghai district of Zhoushan city 舟山市[Zhou1 shan1 shi4], Zhejiang; Qing dynasty name of 舟山市
- place to return to; home; final destination; ending
- to clean; to clean up; to eliminate; to wipe out
- (literary) shackles
- theme; subject