- lit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom); fig. a bolt from the blue
- divine light (around the Buddha); a halo; a miraculous column of light; (slang) jolly good!
- background (academic and work); curriculum vitae; résumé
- Wade (name); Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), sinologist 威妥瑪|威妥玛[Wei1 Tuo3 ma3]
- to cram
- to join the army; (official title in imperial China) military adviser; aide-de-camp
- aspiration; ambition; to volunteer
- to supervise; to superintend; inspector; censorship
- excellent in every respect; flawless
- to act arbitrarily; to make decisions without consulting others
- insulted; humiliated; disgraced
- one layer; one level
- irreversible
- to erase; to cover traces; to obliterate evidence; to expunge; to blot out; to suppress
- passive
- men, women, young and old; all kinds of people; people of all ages
- 田 Tián: 田 Tian2: surname Tian田 tián: 田 tian2: field; farm; CL:片[pian4]
- curb; roadside; wayside
- a narrow street (lined with walls); to line the street
- to ravage; to ruin
- wilderness
- (idiom) to be a flourishing family with many descendants
- public facilities; infrastructure
- in full swing (idiom); (in a) frenzy; buzzing with activity
- tenant
- provinces and cities
- to question; to quiz; to grill
- Nantes (city in France)
- along the sides of the road; by the wayside
- Iran
- neoclassicism
- to complete a project
- to change into
- Gdansk, city on Baltic in north Poland
- coastal area