- to rock; to shake; to sway
- (used to describe sb or sth that makes a very strong impression, whether favorable or unfavorable) terrible; intense; severe; devastating; amazing; awesome; outstanding; (of a person) stern; strict; harsh; shrewd; tough; (of an animal) fierce; (of a resemblance) striking; (of liquor or chili pepper) strong; (of bacteria) virulent
- to cause sb's death; extremely; terribly; (used in complaining about sth) to be a nuisance
- Amitabha Buddha; the Buddha of the Western paradise; may the lord Buddha preserve us!; merciful Buddha!
- auspicious and peaceful
- helpless; helplessness; feeling useless; no help
- at worst; if worst comes to worst; (usu. in the negative) serious; alarming
- each other; mutual
- to shout; to bawl; to yell (to urge on an animal); to hawk (one's wares); to denounce loudly; to shout slogans
- to mention; to bring up; (lit. and fig.) to lift; to raise; to initiate (legal proceedings)
- to encourage
- perfectly contented (idiom); perfectly satisfied
- with great difficulty; very difficult
- to turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by
- rapid (flow of water)
- water surface
- to rise; to go up
- fierce; violent; ferocious
- were it not for; if not for
- to be in (some state, position, or condition)
- to raise; to increase
- entourage; retinue
- to stay somewhere temporarily; to stop over
- to go straight to; to make a beeline for
- before this; before then; previously
- to welcome; to meet; to forge ahead (esp. in the face of difficulties); to meet face to face
- to have an audience (with the Emperor)
- board and lodging; room and board
- side; adjacent place
- 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")
- medium
- stature; build (height and weight); figure
- (idiom) frail scholar
- (bound form) to penetrate; to seep through; to tell secretly; to leak; thoroughly; through and through; to appear; to show
- able and efficient
- to hand over (responsibility for sth) to (sb); to leave it to (sb else to take charge of the next stage of a process)
- in fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto
- the imperial family; royal kin
- appropriate; proper
- habitation; dwelling place; residence; CL:處|处[chu4]
- not easy to do sth; difficult; unchanging