- time is limited (idiom)
- to grieve; to be broken-hearted; to feel deeply hurt
- the whole family; members of the same family (lit. or fig.)
- canary
- girl; young lady
- oval
- cheek; face
- red; rosy; flushed
- to arrive at (place or time); period; to become due; classifier for events, meetings, elections, sporting fixtures, years (of graduation)
- moral (of a story); lesson to be learned; implication; message; import; metaphorical meaning
- 笼子 lóng zi: 笼子 long2 zi5: cage; basket; container笼子 lǒng zi: 笼子 long3 zi5: large box; trunk; chest
- constraint; to detain; to take into custody
- birdcage
- symbol; emblem; to symbolize; to signify; to represent
- to liberate; to emancipate; liberation; refers to the Communists' victory over the Nationalists in 1949; CL:次[ci4]
- 剥 bō: 剥 bo1: to peel; to skin; to flay; to shuck剥 bāo: 剥 bao1: to peel; to skin; to shell; to shuck
- to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; to inhale (esp. smoke); (of fabric etc) to shrink; (of certain plants) to sprout; to bud; to whip; to thrash; classifier for sheets (of tissues, wet wipes etc)
- (bound form) cocoon
- the truth about sth; the actual facts
- inner heart; soul
- truth
- small bird; young bird (hatchling, nestling, fledgling, chick); (fig.) penis (kiddie term); (golf) birdie
- eyes (in literature); eyesight
- tear; teardrop; CL:滴[di1]
- words and actions; what one says and what one does
- to be rude; to treat irreverently
- oath; vow; to swear; to pledge
- bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly
- to suffer hardship
- to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult
- to draw the outline of; to outline; to sketch; to delineate contours of; to give a brief account of
- to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差[chu1 chai1]); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家[chu1 jia1])
- words; speech; utterance; discourse
- to touch; to meet with; to bump
- (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 make a promise
- promise
- adorable; cute; lovely
- (of people or relationships) close; intimate; to draw close to; to engage with; to become familiar with (nature, places, ideas, art etc)
- to be situated at; to find oneself at
- joke; jest; to laugh at; to mock; ridiculous; absurd