- intelligent; clever; bright; acute (of sight and hearing)
- prudent; cautious
- at once; right away; immediately; on horseback (i.e. by military force)
- will; shall; to be going to
- peninsula
- to bind; to tie up; to fetter; to shackle
- hand and foot; movement of limbs; action; trick; step in a procedure (CL:道[dao4])
- big and strong; formidable; powerful
- to involve; to implicate; to be interrelated
- Tsarist Russia; abbr. for 沙皇俄國|沙皇俄国[Sha1 huang2 E2 guo2]
- to be drawn into; to be involved in
- an expedition, esp. military; march to remote regions
- wait a moment
- perhaps; maybe
- 打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]
- to score a victory; to prevail over one's opponents
- profound; deep; deep-going
- never
- warm
- cold; poor; to tremble
- ice; CL:塊|块[kuai4]; to chill sth; (of an object or substance) to feel cold; (of a person) cold; unfriendly; (slang) methamphetamine
- (meteorology) climate; (fig.) climate; prevailing conditions (in human affairs)
- drought; (of land, climate etc) arid; dry
- grassland; prairie; CL:片[pian4]
- to seize; to capture; to wrest control of
- 中欧 Zhōng ōu: 中欧 Zhong1 ou1: Central Europe中欧 Zhōng ōu: 中欧 Zhong1 Ou1: Sino-European
- populous and affluent
- rich and fertile
- border; boundary
- within; less than
- inevitable; certain; necessity
- vast; broad; generous; to develop; to enhance
- Southern Europe
- to unite; unity; solidarity; united
- to depend on; to be dependent on
- unreliable
- clumsy; botched
- to meet with; to encounter (esp. misfortune or hardship); an experience (esp. adverse)
- to assemble; to gather
- grudge; pent-up resentment; consuming bitterness
- to go a step further; (develop, understand, improve etc) more; further
- to worsen