- outside; outdoors
- newly rich; parvenu; upstart
- extremely hot (weather); blazing (sun); (fig.) burning (enthusiasm)
- old man; I (an old man referring to himself)
- beyond the topmost clouds (idiom); unimaginably far away
- to lose face
- without any sense of shame; unembarrassed; shameless
- from beginning to end; in its entirety; in accord with fact; literal
- goods; (derog.) stuff; trash
- to boil; to roll; to take a hike; Get lost!
- sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas); yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus); (TCM) digua fig (Ficus tikoua Bur.)
- remote; desolate; far from the city
- small town; village
- sinecure; position with practically no obligations
- more or less
- immortal
- (literary) dog; Kangxi radical 94
- as one wishes; according to one's wishes; at will; voluntary; conscious
- to run amok (idiom); to commit outrages
- lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life; to have great hopes for one's offspring; to give one's child the best education as a career investment
- excuse me (i.e. let me through, please); reflected glory; to benefit from sb else's prestige
- lit. the fox exploits the tiger's might (idiom); fig. to use powerful connections to intimidate people
- veiled criticism
- to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly; to long for sth
- character; nature; quality; plain; to pawn; pledge; hostage; to question; Taiwan pr. [zhi2]
- flavor; taste; (fig.) feeling (of ...); sense (of ...); hint (of ...); (fig.) interest; delight; (dialect) smell; odor
- eyelid
- the location below sth; afterwards
- to restrict; to limit to; to constrain; restriction; constraint
- lit. the whip cannot reach (idiom); beyond one's influence; too far to be able to help
- to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants; to toady; boot-licking
- bossy and domineering; throwing one's weight about
- the earth
- what one acquires; one's gains
- (of sb who ostensibly collaborated with the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945) to secretly work for the Nationalists or against the Communists
- to arrest
- residence; dwelling
- to cultivate one's moral character; (fashion) slim-fit; body-hugging
- skill; art; kung fu; labor; effort
- making an all-out effort (idiom); to try one's heart out; to do one's utmost
- post horse; relay station