Vocabulary: 大师的盛宴
- dumbstruck and unable to reply (idiom); left speechless; at a loss for words
- lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom); fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline; to take a dive
- brains; mind; head; way of thinking
- prologue of play; opening remarks; preamble (of speeches, articles etc)
- tea; tea plant; CL:杯[bei1],壺|壶[hu2]
- to drive away
- ingrained; entrenched; deep-rooted
- cold air; a chill one feels in the body (when exposed to cold air)
- reliable evidence (idiom); conclusive proof; definitive evidence
- to cause sth to collapse under the weight; (fig.) to overwhelm
- omen; sign (of sth yet to occur); prior indication; to foreshadow
- to lose (sth); to drop (sth); to feel a sense of loss; frustrated; disappointment; loss
- great changes; ups and downs; vicissitudes; abbr. of 滄海桑田|沧海桑田[cang1 hai3 sang1 tian2]
- scale; yardstick
- nightmare
- (idiom) during one's lifetime; while one is on this earth; in one's remaining years
- (biology) (loanword) to clone; a clone; (fig.) to make an identical copy of (a website etc)
- to rebuild; to reconstruct; to regenerate; (in set phrases like 恩同再造[en1 tong2 zai4 zao4]) to save sb's life
- model; prototype; archetype
- forerunner
- fossil
- race (of people)
- to be proficient in; to master (a subject)
- to be used to the sight of
- vast; extending into the distance
- to restructure; to reorganize; to revamp
- misgivings; apprehensions; to worry about; to be concerned about
- to avoid a problem by walking away from it; to quit
- to look at from close up; to watch intently
- to seek by inquiry or search; to call on; to visit
- to face (reality, danger etc)
- (fig.) (of one's actions) blind; unthinking
- hundreds; a large number; lit. by the hundreds and thousands
- skeletal remains; Taiwan pr. [gu3 zhi2]
- eye socket