- to follow sb's tracks; to tail; to shadow; tracking
- bossy and domineering; throwing one's weight about
- mass; multitude; the masses
- masochism; masochist
- lit. the divine steed Feihuang gallops (idiom); fig. to achieve meteoric success in one's career
- (idiom) too many to count; innumerable
- experienced in the ways of the world (idiom); worldly-wise; sophisticated
- man; gentleman
- corruption
- having an extensive criminal record
- prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
- to play with; to toy with; to dally with; to engage in; to resort to
- breakthrough; to overcome an obstacle quickly
- official career (formal)
- to take it up a notch; to bring it up a level
- helper; assistant
- hard; stiff; solid; (fig.) strong; firm; resolutely; uncompromisingly; laboriously; with great difficulty; good (quality); able (person); (of food) filling; substantial
- to claim; to pretend
- swindler; a cheat
- windblown dust; hardships of travel; vicissitudes of life; prostitution
- woman; female
- shameful
- to break up (a marriage, family etc)
- (bound form) to capture (sb)
- hostage
- to coerce; to compel; to force
- love letter
- counting one's chickens before they are hatched
- chain reaction
- (idiom) to stamp with fury; to fly into a rage
- accomplice; accessory
- a sea of flames
- barrier; obstruction; hindrance; impediment; obstacle
- to run through; a connecting thread from beginning to end; to link