- to monitor; to keep a close watch over; surveillance
- name and reality; how sth is portrayed and what it is actually like
- inconsistent; not in agreement with; not agree or tally with; not conform to
- bitter cold; severe winter
- to expend a great deal of effort
- to spiral; to circle; to go around; to hover; to orbit
- to stay for a time; to stop over; to lodge; to sink down (into soft ground); leftovers
- to talk about often; to reminisce about; to keep repeating; to keep harping on; to discuss
- weary old body (colloquial term, used jocularly or irreverently)
- to put up with; to endure
- to change; to alter; to modify
- to stoop
- eyesight; strength of vision; the ability to make discerning judgments
- to freeze
- to wait; to wait for
- to stamp one's feet
- to transform; to morph; to degenerate; metamorphosis; transmutation; transformation; decay; degeneration
- (idiom) to gain the initiative by striking first; to preempt
- to pay a formal visit; to call to pay respects; to meet one's senior or superior
- to hold a sinecure (idiom)
- to recover one's youthful vigor; to feel rejuvenated (idiom)
- son of an official; son of nobility; your son (honorific)
- to appear; present; now; existing; current
- to retire from a government post (old)
- hostility; animosity
- willing (to do sth); to take pleasure in
- solitary and impoverished (idiom)
- thus
- to stroll; to saunter
- suddenly; abruptly
- clay figurine
- courtesy name of Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云[Zhao4 Yun2], general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- A-dou, nickname of Liu Shan 劉禪|刘禅[Liu2 Shan4] (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263; (fig.) weak and inept person
- to flee for one's life