- hard to say; can't guarantee; difficult to protect; difficult to preserve
- to keep; to maintain; to preserve
- (mechanics) cold treatment; to downplay; to handle in a low-key way
- on stage
- to seize; to clutch; to grab firmly and pull
- Malaysia
- to dash (run fast); to rush; to dart
- to see with one's own eyes; very soon
- just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that
- lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom); fig. to change the course of events; to turn things around
- to think too much of oneself; self-important; arrogant
- rainstorm; storm; tempest
- whirlpool; eddy; vortex; (fig.) maelstrom
- centralized power (history), e.g. under an Emperor or party
- assassin
- atmosphere; mood
- to float; to hover; also written 漂浮
- the skies above a certain place; (aviation) airspace; (Tw) topless
- to stand; standing; on one's feet
- to nurse; to look after; to watch over; (old) hospital nurse
- the clouds; cloud layer; cloud bank
- far away; a distant location
- to ease (tension); to relax; to cause sth to relax; to alleviate; relaxed; easy and unhurried; leisurely; soothing; mild (slope)
- to look in all directions (idiom); to glance around
- attire; clothes; dress
- the waist and lower back; (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food); the waist of trousers or a skirt; (metonym) money pouch; pocket; (bound form) the middle section of an upright object (mountain, bottle etc)
- (idiom) sneaky; secretive; furtive
- quick step
- to feel with the hand; to touch; to stroke; to grope; to steal; to abstract
- waist; small of the back
- to bow; to bend at the waist
- to arrest; to capture; to seize; to win (a set, a game etc)
- Imperial bodyguard
- the few are no match for the many; heavily outnumbered; facing impossible odds (idiom)