Vocabulary: 大师的盛宴
- to form; to forge (alliances etc)
- 茜 qiàn: 茜 qian4: (bound form) Indian madder; munjeet (Rubia cordifolia); (bound form) madder red; dark red; alizarin crimson茜 xī: 茜 xi1: used in the transliteration of people's names
- 穆 mù: 穆 mu4: solemn; reverent; calm; burial position in an ancestral tomb (old)穆 Mù: 穆 Mu4: surname Mu
- to cause sb's death; extremely; terribly; (used in complaining about sth) to be a nuisance
- (idiom) emotionally sensitive and prone to melancholy
- to dwindle; to vanish; to make vanish; to exercise restraint; to curb (one's mirth, arrogance etc); to astringe; (math.) to converge
- pup; puppy
- in big strides; (fig.) in giant steps
- behind; the back; the rear; later; afterwards; (in) the future
- to occupy a post currently; current (president etc); incumbent; (coll.) current boyfriend (girlfriend, spouse)
- in one's spare time; outside working hours; amateur (historian etc)
- to live together (in a large group or flock)
- soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to lay mines
- to watch from the sidelines
- game of chance; gambling party; gambling joint
- to gamble
- betting odds
- in turn; successively; one after the other; bit by bit
- ordinary tones; everyday harmony; common chord
- 节 jié: 节 jie2: joint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar); seasonal festival; (bound form) to economize; to save; (bound form) moral integrity; chastity; classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc; knot (nautical miles per hour)节 jiē: 节 jie1: see 節骨眼|节骨眼[jie1 gu5 yan3]
- will to fight; fighting spirit
- natural instincts; nature; inherent quality
- warms the heart and delights the eye (idiom); pleasing; delightful
- to go hungry; to starve
- (of competition or fighting) intense; fierce; (of pain) acute; (of an expression of opinion) impassioned; vehement; (of a course of action) drastic; extreme
- to return a compliment; to give sth in return
- to feed (a child, domestic animal etc); to keep; to raise (an animal)
- (of a sports competition or match) to commence; (of a war or battle) to break out; to perform acrobatic or choreographed fighting (in Chinese opera); to brawl; to come to blows
- in the final analysis; ultimately
- bustling with noise and excitement; lively
- number of times; frequency; order number (in a series); power (math.); degree of a polynomial (math.)
- to say goodbye; to take one's leave
- have no way out; have no alternative; abbr. to 無奈|无奈[wu2 nai4]
- not proper; inappropriate