Vocabulary: 大师的盛宴
- fine powder; broken pieces
- 美德 Měi Dé: 美德 Mei3 De2: USA and Germany美德 měi dé: 美德 mei3 de2: virtue
- favor; grace
- to exchange; to swap; to switch (telecom); commutative (math); to commute
- meritorious deed; benevolent act
- ten million; countless; many; one must by all means
- leaving the door open invites the thief (idiom); to invite disaster by giving evildoers a free hand
- severe; harsh
- cheeks streaming with tears (idiom)
- (bound form) tears; teardrops
- 琢磨 zúo mo: 琢磨 zuo2 mo5: to ponder; to mull over; to think through; Taiwan pr. [zhuo2 mo2]琢磨 zhúo mó: 琢磨 zhuo2 mo2: to carve and polish (jade); to polish and refine a literary work
- only; nothing else
- to have enough food and warm clothes; adequately provided
- character acquired through long habit; habits and properties
- to imprison; captivity
- protective
- to lie; to crouch
- plaintive; mournful; miserable
- bitter and astringent; pained; agonized
- to flow out; to issue; to leak
- to air-dry; to season (timber etc); air-dried; air-drying
- tedious; dreary
- touching; moving
- erudite; profound; learned; extremely knowledgeable
- to get ready (for a journey); ready and waiting
- during; at the time of
- trustworthy
- city gate
- farmland; cultivated land
- (idiom) lonely soul; solitary
- village; hamlet; CL:座[zuo4]
- minor road; lane; pathway; trail
- lights
- pitch-dark (idiom)
- the West; the Occident; Western countries
- gone forever
- to admire