- to boost support or interest; to campaign; to promote
- island
- precarious as pile of eggs (idiom); ready to fall and break at any moment; in a dangerous state
- afraid; frightened; to fear
- coastal area
- feigned surrender
- pit; hollow; depression; (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel; (literary) to bury alive; (coll.) to cheat; to scam; to screw over
- prisoner
- to split; to direct; to brandish; humble
- to faint; to lose consciousness; his; her; its; their
- (bound form) to overstep one's authority
- to offend
- younger brother; junior male; I (modest word in letter)
- to re-offend; repeat offender; recidivist
- suburbs; outskirts
- to cower; to flinch; to quail; to recoil
- 贡 gòng: 贡 gong4: to offer tribute; tribute; gifts贡 Gòng: 贡 Gong4: surname Gong
- to conspire to murder; to plot against sb's life
- to exploit sb's point of weakness to force them to do one's bidding
- to decline; to wane
- to plunder; to rob
- people living on the frontiers; inhabitants of a border area
- to listen; to hear what sb says; news one has heard
- charges or facts about a crime; the nature of the offense
- (idiom) complete nonsense
- whirlpool; eddy; vortex; (fig.) maelstrom
- to get back on the right path; to mend one's ways
- to spin; to rotate; to revolve
- (rhetorical) utterly evil; the worst of all evils
- pain and difficulties; suffering (of the people)
- rice bowl; fig. livelihood; job; way of making a living
- material; matter