- office building; CL:座[zuo4],棟|栋[dong4]
- to go upstairs
- to close securely; tightly closed; secure
- stupefied; stunned
- disappointed; to lose hope; to despair
- (of a nation) to join an alliance; (of an athlete) to join a sports team; (of an entrepreneur) to join a franchise; (of an actor) to join the cast of a movie; (of a recording artist) to sign with a label
- to sell off (one's property)
- American dollar; US dollar
- appropriate; proper; ready
- to be stranded (of ship); to run aground; fig. to run into difficulties and stop
- rendering (computing); to add washes of ink or color to a drawing (Chinese painting); to exaggerate; to embellish
- solemn and stirring; moving and tragic
- first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone)
- a heavy load and a long road; fig. to bear heavy responsibilities through a long struggle (cf Confucian Analects, 8.7)
- on the one hand
- future (career etc) prospects
- not to be shirked without dishonor (idiom); incumbent; bounden (duty)
- to save; to remedy; to rescue
- mission; long-term task to which one devotes oneself; a calling
- to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis
- precipice; overhanging cliff
- after the event; in hindsight; in retrospect
- (literary) to give; to accord; to render
- to drop from the sky; (fig.) to appear out of nowhere; (attributive) airborne
- midsummer; the height of summer
- cold winter
- on the other hand...; conversely...
- 老子 lǎo zi: 老子 lao3 zi5: father; daddy; "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt); I (used arrogantly or jocularly)老子 Lǎo zǐ: 老子 Lao3 zi3: Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经[Dao4 de2 jing1] by Laozi
- faint; indistinct
- opposite bank (of a body of water)
- Pandora
- interest in sth; curiosity; inquisitive
- to urge; to prompt; to spur on; to order sb about
- to hold fast to; to stick to
- Zeus