- sweat; perspiration
- goblin; witch; devil; bewitching; enchanting; monster; phantom; demon
- to swagger off; to walk off (or drive off etc) without a second thought for those left behind
- sitting posture
- to meet with; meeting
- to remain silent; to have nothing to say
- soul brothers; friends in spirit who have never met; to commune with
- Confucian study of ethics; study of Daoism; school for Daoism in Tang and Song times; Daoist magic; another name for 理學|理学, rational learning of Song dynasty neo-Confucianism
- cannot be done; not feasible; impossible to accomplish
- pure; unadulterated; purely; completely
- ready-made; readily available
- to continue in one's own way (idiom)
- content with one's lot; knowing one's place
- sensationalism; vulgar claptrap to please the crowds; playing to the gallery; demagogy
- late Ming and early Qing; around the middle of the 17th century
- Huang Zongxi (1610-1695), scholar and writer of the Ming-Qing transition
- cupidity
- often; frequently
- to market; to sell
- psychologist
- (literary) (lit.) to fix one's gaze on; (fig.) to show interest in; (favorable) attention; favor
- to identify clearly; to make sure of; to believe firmly
- to order the arrest of sb as criminal; to list as wanted
- (idiom) (to disappear) without a trace
- to be furious; to fly into a terrible rage
- to arrest; to seize
- lucky star in the ascendant (idiom); a lucky sign
- (anatomy) costal cartilage; (fig.) weak spot; weak link; vulnerability
- (coll.) very painful
- doom; death; desperately
- to beat up; to come to blows; battery (law)
- sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion; everything turned on its head
- to transform; to change
- stupid and ignorant (idiom)
- to have water get in (one's ear, shoes etc); to get flooded; inflow of water