- to look distracted; to stare blankly; distracted; blank; (coll.) unexpectedly; rash; rashly
- lit. to kowtow like grinding garlic (idiom); fig. to pound the ground with one's head
- 谢 Xiè: 谢 Xie4: surname Xie谢 xiè: 谢 xie4: to thank; (bound form) to apologize; (bound form) to decline; to refuse; (bound form) (of flowers, leaves etc) to wither
- enormously proud of one's success (idiom); smug; complacent
- lit. to have one's nose in the air (idiom); fig. arrogant; haughty
- who would have thought that; who would have expected that
- lit. a tall tree attracts the wind (idiom); fig. a famous or rich person attracts criticism
- bubbling and gurgling; hubbubing; abuzz
- gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals
- none doesn't; there is none who isn't; everyone
- the tracks of a cart that overturned; (fig.) a path that led to failure in the past
- example; precedent; rule; case; instance
- to be influenced
- deeply worried and sick at heart (idiom)
- risk to one's life
- disaster; calamity
- weak; faint; feeble
- candlelight; candlelit (vigil etc); candela, unit of luminous intensity (cd)
- to contemplate; to ponder; contemplation; meditation
- (idiom) to turn a blind eye to (sth one sees regularly)
- to read cursorily; to skim through
- disaster; calamity
- to have the heart to do sth; to steel oneself to a task
- see 防患未然[fang2 huan4 wei4 ran2]
- too late for regrets (idiom); It is useless to repent after the event.
- (idiom) what lowly people think counts for little
- grieved; pained
- another person; sb else; other people
- premature; untimely; (dialect) to have breakfast; breakfast
- style of folk song popular in Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia; CL:首[shou3]
- all the more; even more; further