- to want sex; given to lust; lecherous; lascivious; horny
- bored; boring; senseless
- to act against one's will; to have no alternative but to; to have to; to have no choice; must
- what is meant by the expression ...; what is referred to as ...; (derog.) so-called
- (formal) to apply; to carry out; to take action to (do sth) (used before a disyllabic verb, indicating that the action is directed at sth previously mentioned, e.g. 加以說明|加以说明[jia1 yi3 shuo1 ming2]); to apply (restrictions etc); to give (support, consideration etc); (literary) moreover; in addition
- to visit prostitutes; to go whoring
- 宿 xìu: 宿 xiu4: constellation宿 sù: 宿 su4: lodge for the night; old; former宿 xǐu: 宿 xiu3: night; classifier for nights宿 Sù: 宿 Su4: surname Su
- prostitute
- to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from
- 拉 là: 拉 la4: used in 拉拉蛄[la4 la4 gu3]拉 lá: 拉 la2: to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash拉 lā: 拉 la1: to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels
- on the one hand
- admittedly (it's true that...)
- lit. robust years; prime of life; summer; able-bodied (fit for military service); mature (talent, garden etc)
- (literary) to pace back and forth
- Shanghai municipality (short name 滬|沪[Hu4])
- the Shanghai of old, with its foreign settlements; (fig.) a bustling, cosmopolitan city
- knight-errant
- vagrant; unemployed person; rōnin (wandering masterless samurai)
- direction; trend; to incline
- old; opposite: new 新; former; worn (with age)
- to collapse; to crumble; to fall apart
- system; setup; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to go on stage; fig. to appear on the scene; used in advertising to mean new product
- (economics) standard; benchmark (as in 金本位[jin1 ben3 wei4] "gold standard"); one's own department or unit; central reference point; fundamental frame of reference (used after a noun N, indicates an N-centered outlook, as in 學校本位|学校本位[xue2 xiao4 ben3 wei4] "school-centered approach")
- new type; new kind
- young people; youngster
- outsider; foreigner; stranger
- to get a job; employment
- to perplex; to disturb; to cause complications
- to try to find; to look for; to call on sb; to find; to seek; to return; to give change
- not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient; less than
- mold; type; style; model
- model; example
- to fit; to suit
- environment; circumstances; surroundings; CL:個|个[ge4]; ambient
- to prepare; to make ready; preparation; preparatory
- armed forces; troops; CL:支[zhi1]
- product; result (of)
- to put one's hand to it; to start out on a task; to set out
- during; at the time of
- immediately