- to assert; assertion
- to catch cold; (common) cold; CL:場|场[chang2],次[ci4]; (coll.) to be interested in (often used in the negative); (Tw) to detest; can't stand
- minor illness; indisposition
- hepatitis
- liver disease
- to suffer a paralyzing stroke
- wide; broad; extensive; widespread
- creativeness; creativity
- stuck together as by glue (of lovers); joined at the hip
- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French realist novelist, author of Madame Bovary
- Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
- tuberculosis; TB
- Lu Zhaolin (637-689), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰[Chu1 Tang2 Si4 jie2]
- leprosy; Hansen's disease
- representativeness; representative; typical
- to contract (an illness); to be afflicted with; to suffer from
- lung disease
- old and gray-haired
- blurred; hard to make out distinctly
- meticulous; careful; attentive
- 轮回 lún húi: 轮回 lun2 hui2: (neologism) (slang) to respond to a message after a very long delay (pun on 輪迴|轮回[lun2 hui2], the cycle of rebirth) (opposite of 秒回[miao3 hui2])轮回 lún húi: 轮回 lun2 hui2: (Buddhism) samsara; cycle of rebirth; to recur cyclically; to succeed one another in cycles
- investigator; researcher
- trials and tribulations
- 旋 xuán: 旋 xuan2: to revolve; a loop; a circle旋 xuàn: 旋 xuan4: to whirl; immediately
- 丘 Qīu: 丘 Qiu1: surname Qiu丘 qīu: 丘 qiu1: mound; hillock; grave; classifier for fields
- ridge between fields; crop row; mounded soil forming a ridge in a field; grave mound
- 宿 sù: 宿 su4: lodge for the night; old; former宿 xǐu: 宿 xiu3: night; classifier for nights宿 xìu: 宿 xiu4: constellation宿 Sù: 宿 Su4: surname Su
- warp and woof; longitude and latitude; main points
- to examine; to test; to check
- 休 Xīu: 休 Xiu1: surname Xiu休 xīu: 休 xiu1: to rest; to stop doing sth for a period of time; to cease; (imperative) don't
- in former times
- to comfort; to console; to stroke; to caress; an old term for province or provincial governor
- surname Peng
- bitter fighting; a violent battle