- one's declining years; one's old age
- to separate (married couple); to live apart (of husband and wife, family members)
- married
- hooligan; rogue; a good-for-nothing
- staircase; flight of stairs
- to stay out of (hot water, trouble, awkward situation etc); to avoid (sb)
- embankment; bank; levee
- to receive and send; to receive and transmit
- one tenth
- taxes; duties
- poll tax
- in all parts of (a country); various regions
- postage
- mailman
- at this time; at this moment
- to stretch taut; (of muscles etc) taut; strained; tense
- pitch-dark (idiom)
- to return empty-handed; to fail to win anything
- to order sb around; (coll.) to handle (a draught animal, tool, machine etc); Taiwan pr. [shi3 huan4]
- one's own mouth; fig. in one's own words; to say sth personally
- at once; immediately; promptly; swiftly
- Good night!; Good evening!
- reserved; overcautious
- weak; feeble; flabby
- brains; mind; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to drift about; to move unsteadily; (fig.) to fluctuate; to rise and fall; to be changeable; (economics) (of a currency or rate etc) to float
- in no way; not in the least; absolutely not
- sentiment; feeling
- to arrange in order; to line up; to exclude; to eliminate; to repel; to expel; to discharge; (literary) to push aside; to force open; to rehearse; row; line; platoon; (bound form) steak; chop; (bound form) raft; classifier for rows or lines (of people or things)