- in the dark; in secret; on the sly; surreptitiously
- deeply worried and sick at heart (idiom)
- afternoon
- to worry; to fret; to be anxious; to become sad
- to arise abruptly; to arrive suddenly; happening suddenly
- to be unable to hold back
- vague; faint; indistinct
- shelf; frame; stand; framework; airs; arrogance
- to rebuff; to refuse; to turn down
- to intercept; to block the passage of; to interdict
- refined and elegant attitude of mind
- half the day; a long time; quite a while
- trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble
- face-to-face meeting; an interview
- to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking
- skills acquired through religious practice; (fig.) ability; skill; Taiwan pr. [dao4 hang5]
- to point out; to indicate; to give directions; to show how (to do sth); to censure; to pick at
- one or two; a few; a little; just a bit
- brows
- to wrinkle; wrinkled; to crease
- as far as I know; to the best of my knowledge
- situation; state
- to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly
- openly and without fear; brazenly
- to undermine; to let someone down; to seduce someone away from something
- to be at a loss for words; speechless
- to stop; to pause; to arrange; to lay out; to kowtow; to stamp (one's foot); at once; classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
- to start using; (computing) to enable (a feature)
- to spread one's wings and soar (idiom); to develop one's abilities freely
- cigarette or pipe tobacco; CL:根[gen1]; smoke; mist; vapour; CL:縷|缕[lu:3]; tobacco plant; (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke
- 工夫 gōng fū: 工夫 gong1 fu1: (old) laborer工夫 gōng fu: 工夫 gong1 fu5: period of time (may be months, or mere seconds); spare time; skill; labor; effort
- to intensify; to speed up; to step up
- to be startled; to be shocked; to be amazed
- courage; daring; boldness; resolution; drive
- at any time; at all times; at the right time; whenever necessary
- to conduct; to hold (an event)