- motive power; (fig.) motivation; impetus
- to illuminate; to turn on the lights; to light (a blaze)
- to automate
- clean; to clean
- energy sources; energy
- coal
- names of many kinds (idiom); items of every description
- to pull up
- price
- to make a promise
- promise
- clothes and food
- country folk; rustic; rural folk
- to sing with solemn fervor; sad, stirring song; elegy; dirge; threnody
- best-seller; best-selling book; blockbuster
- by means of; through; with the help of
- brutal; tyrannical
- reader
- customary
- to evade responsibility; to shirk
- ability to judge; judgment
- common sense; general knowledge
- all day long; whole day
- to evoke; to induce; to call to mind; to pick up with a hook
- to dare to; to be brave enough to
- to be energized by it; to receive a boost from it
- music played during a movie, play etc; incidental music; music played in a theatrical interlude; (fig.) incident; episode
- drugs; narcotics
- stranger; outsider
- to pay no heed to (idiom); to ignore; to brush aside
- to forget; to cease to think about (sb or sth) anymore
- evidence; proof; to confirm; corroboration
- physical labor
- slow and patient; chronic (disease); slow to take effect (e.g. a slow poison)
- 致 zhì: 致 zhi4: (bound form) fine; delicate; exquisite致 zhì: 致 zhi4: (literary) to send; to transmit; to convey; (bound form) to cause; to lead to; consequently
- addiction; craving
- anesthesia; to anesthetize; (fig.) to corrupt (sb's mind); to enervate; to numb the mind (to escape from harsh reality)
- to accuse; to denounce; to make a complaint against; denunciation