- to keep a firm grip on; to pay close attention to; to lose no time in (doing sth)
- stepdaughter; CL:個|个[ge4],名[ming2]
- to show off
- decorated lantern; lantern light
- to glint; to glitter; to sparkle; to radiate
- dark; dim (light); dull (color); drab; (fig.) gloomy; bleak
- not to be worried about; all taken care of
- cover; casing
- creek; stream; brook
- to burst; to break through; to topple
- Tatar (person)
- to drown
- refined; educate; cultured; intellectual; polite; gentle
- objective; impartial
- (idiom) four-part structure of a composition: introduction, elucidation, pivot (shift in perspective), synthesis; (fig.) coherent structural progression in writing, narrative, or any unfolding process
- nightmare
- (esp. of poetry, music) melancholy; sad and moving
- to paint; to smear; to apply (makeup etc); to doodle; to erase; to obliterate
- to seek; to demand
- gargantuan; as big as the sky; enormous
- to lag behind
- (idiom) baffling; bizarre; without rhyme or reason; inexplicable
- rigorous; strict; careful; (of writing) well organized; meticulous
- to forecast; to predict
- to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander; news; (coll.) to delay; to dilly-dally
- to cut; to cut apart
- to contain; to hold; (of a person or style etc) reserved; restrained; (of words, writings) full of hidden meaning; implicit; veiled (criticism)
- stationed in China; located in China
- attribute; property
- well qualified; competent; to be equal to the task; able to do sth very well
- behind the scenes
- to yearn for; to look forward to