- (Buddhism) to be reincarnated; (fig.) to be lenient; to spare sb; to have more children than allowed under family planning policy
- to murder
- guilty of terrible crimes (idiom); reprehensible
- to be full of; to flood; to congest
- Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama)
- to break away from; to cast off (old ideas etc); to get rid of; to break away (from); to break out (of); to free oneself from; to extricate oneself
- death penalty; capital punishment
- to preach
- body weary, strength exhausted (idiom); extremely tired; spent
- steps; flight of steps; step (over obstacle); fig. way out of an embarrassing situation; bench (geology)
- to take a lot of trouble (over sb or sth); may I trouble you (to do sth)
- loud and clear; resonant
- to obey the Emperor's decree; at your Imperial majesty's command
- lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. follow a prescribed pattern to the letter; scrupulous attention to detail
- stable; calm; settled; to stabilize; Valium; diazepam
- predicament; plight
- fully content with one's achievements (idiom); complacent
- weak; frail; thin; flimsy
- pitiful; painful; heartrending
- summer; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to request leave of absence
- at this very moment
- wedding; marriage; CL:門|门[men2],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- to approach; to draw near; to be close to (in space or time)
- after getting married
- vertical; north-south (Taiwan pr. [zong1]); from front to back; longitudinal; lengthwise (Taiwan pr. [zong1]); military unit corresponding to an army corps (Taiwan pr. [zong1]); (bound form) to release (a captive); to indulge; to leap up; (literary) even if
- a day drags past like a year (idiom); time hangs heavy; time crawls when one is wretched
- to waste no time in (doing sth); to hurry up
- to hold between the thumb and fingers; to pinch; to mold (using the fingers); to hold (lit. in one's hand and fig.); to join together; to fabricate (a story, a report, etc)
- cadence; rhythm; rhyme scheme; meter (in verse); (linguistics) prosody
- moist
- to twitch
- to gather together, pool or collect; to happen by chance; to move close to; to exploit an opportunity
- ten lines at a glance (idiom); to read very rapidly