- preparations; to get ready for sth
- 花 Huā: 花 Hua1: surname Hua花 huā: 花 hua1: flower; blossom; CL:朵[duo3],支[zhi1],束[shu4],把[ba3],盆[pen2],簇[cu4]; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful花 huā: 花 hua1: flower; blossom; also pr. [wei3]
- money; silver
- 万 mò: 万 mo4: used in 万俟[Mo4 qi2]万 wàn: 万 wan4: ten thousand; a great number万 Wàn: 万 Wan4: surname Wan
- 寿 shòu: 寿 shou4: long life; old age; age; life; birthday; funerary寿 Shòu: 寿 Shou4: surname Shou
- grand event; magnificent undertaking
- immediately; suddenly
- smoke and dust; air pollution
- to spoil things; to dampen spirits; to feel deflated; to be dispirited
- to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)
- 这 zhèi: 这 zhei4: (coll.) this这 zhè: 这 zhe4: (pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)
- first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one)
- to entrap; to set up; to frame (up); to make false charges against
- 好 hǎo: 好 hao3: good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello好 hào: 好 hao4: to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
- opportunity; chance; occasion; CL:個|个[ge4]
- already at an earlier time
- in the dark; in secret; on the sly; surreptitiously
- to make an investigative visit; to go and find out from the source
- rather than... (used in expressions of the form 與其|与其[yu3 qi2] + {verb1} + 不如[bu4 ru2] + {verb2} "rather than {verb1}, better to {verb2}")
- elder brother
- to collude; to collaborate; to gang up
- to play music; to achieve; to present a memorial to the emperor (old)
- 房 fáng: 房 fang2: house; room; CL:間|间[jian1]; branch of an extended family; classifier for family members (or concubines)房 Fáng: 房 Fang2: surname Fang
- court eunuch; palace eunuch
- to sell; to betray; to spare no effort; to show off or flaunt
- 给 gěi: 给 gei3: to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier)给 jǐ: 给 ji3: to supply; to provide
- to comb one's hair
- time; length of time; moment; period
- to report (to one's superior)
- not only that, but ...
- (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])
- 扯 chě: 扯 che3: to pull; to tear; (of cloth, thread etc) to buy; to chat; to gossip; (coll.) (Tw) ridiculous; hokey扯 chě: 扯 che3: to pull; to tear
- to instigate; to incite; to urge; to encourage
- court (of king or emperor)
- Danei, a district in Tainan 台南|台南[Tai2 nan2], Taiwan
- (idiom) to grant government positions or official titles in exchange for bribes
- the top and bottom of sth; the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom; to go up and down; before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context"); (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so; (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates"); all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation"); relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")
- opinions differ (idiom)
- officialdom; bureaucracy
- popular feeling; the will of the people
- very; completely; utterly; extremely; absolutely; hundred percent; to divide into ten equal parts
- stunned; amazed
- did I ever ...? (or "did he ever ...?" etc)