- (of descriptions, writing etc) vivid; lively
- sullen; depressed; melancholy; dejected
- Western opera; CL:場|场[chang3],齣|出[chu1]
- rustic; village; countryside
- to seem; as if; seemingly; alike; similar
- only; merely; just
- to establish; to set up; to found
- sculpture; (carved) statue; CL:尊[zun1]
- to draw the outline of; to outline; to sketch; to delineate contours of; to give a brief account of
- line (in drawing, calligraphy etc); the lines or contours of a three-dimensional object (hairstyle, clothing, car etc)
- careful; attentive; cautious; to be careful; to look out; (dialect) thrifty; frugal
- sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old); classifier for written items: chapter, article
- scenery; landscape
- (idiom) to experience it for oneself; to actually *be* there (as opposed to reading about it etc)
- to go (in a direction); to; towards; (of a train) bound for; past; previous
- Rome, capital of Italy
- cabin; lodge; cottage; chalet; hut; shed
- to describe; to depict; to portray
- (literary) traveler
- the first time; for the first time
- to enter; to join; to go into
- to illuminate; to turn on the lights; to light (a blaze)
- church; chapel; CL:座[zuo4],所[suo3],間|间[jian1]
- to sense; perception; to feel (through the senses); to experience; a feeling; an impression; an experience
- impression (sth that stays in one's mind); a memory
- if; in case; in the event that
- one time (all the way through); once through
- can't say for sure; maybe
- to change; to alter; to transform
- to be familiar with; to know well
- strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled
- a period of time in the recent past; (indicating a period of time up to the present) all along; the whole time
- to fall in love; to love sb or sth dearly (lover, or art)
- victory; success; to beat; to defeat; to surpass; victorious; superior to; to get the better of; better than; surpassing; superb (of vista); beautiful (scenery); wonderful (view); (Taiwan pr. [sheng1]) able to bear; equal to (a task)
- Jacques (name)
- 背 bèi: 背 bei4: the back of a body or object; to turn one's back; to hide something from; to learn by heart; to recite from memory; (slang) unlucky; hard of hearing背 bēi: 背 bei1: to carry on one's back; (fig.) to bear; to shoulder (a burden, blame etc)
- fields; countryside; rural; bucolic