- to worsen
- an era; an age; a generation
- can only; obliged to do sth; to have no other choice
- to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)
- county seat; county town
- hack teacher; pedagogue
- mood; frame of mind
- some; somewhat; rather; a bit
- oppressive (of weather); heavy; depressed; not happy; (of sound) dull; muffled
- to encourage
- not equal to; not as good as; inferior to; it would be better to
- when things reach an extreme, they can only move in the opposite direction (idiom)
- end; finish
- to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up
- the three imperishables, three ways to distinguish oneself that aren't forgotten by history: through one's virtue 立德[li4 de2], one's service 立功[li4 gong1] and one's writings 立言[li4 yan2] (from the Zuo Zhuan 左傳|左传[Zuo3 Zhuan4])
- perhaps; maybe
- to come true; to come about as predicted; to be fulfilled
- on the body; at hand; among
- you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你[ni3])
- what?; something; anything
- have plenty of; there's no lack of
- business; professional work; service; CL:項|项[xiang4]
- ability to judge; judgment
- dream (CL:場|场[chang2]); (bound form) to dream
- five; 5
- to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task; CL:個|个[ge4],份[fen4],項|项[xiang4]
- due to; as a result of; thanks to; owing to; since; because
- every day
- Qimen Dunjia, an ancient system of occult arts used for divination and strategic planning
- five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水
- the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]; gossip; gossipy
- personnel; human resources; human affairs; ways of the world; (euphemism) sexuality; the facts of life
- mysterious; profound; abstruse
- to decide; to determine; to make up one's mind; decision (CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4])
- to move house; to relocate; to remove (sth)
- but; however
- to move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky); to shift; to copy indiscriminately
- 哪里 nǎ lǐ: 哪里 na3 li3: where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪裡|哪里哪里 nǎ lǐ: 哪里 na3 li3: where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment
- to divine
- to learn a skill or art
- essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic)
- cannot; must not; should not
- 成功 chéng gōng: 成功 cheng2 gong1: to succeed; success; successful; fruitful成功 Chéng gōng: 成功 Cheng2 gong1: Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[Tai2 dong1 Xian4], southeast Taiwan
- to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)
- to burn incense
- mountain god