- wordless and uncommunicative (idiom); without speaking; taciturn; not providing any news
- dusk; evening; nightfall
- sealed off; impenetrable
- organ failure; exhaustion; prostration (medicine)
- restless with anxiety; to feel unbearably painful or hot
- last third of the month
- see 淮安市[Huai2 an1 Shi4]; see 淮安區|淮安区[Huai2 an1 Qu1]
- see 鳳陽縣|凤阳县[Feng4 yang2 Xian4]
- disastrous situation; calamity
- desolate; shortage; scarce; out of practice; absurd; uncultivated; to neglect
- conforming with the norms of society
- natural calamities and man-made disasters (idiom)
- natural disaster
- to expand; to enlarge; to broaden one's scope
- disaster relief
- to mobilize; mobilization; CL:次[ci4]
- disaster area
- 米 Mǐ: 米 Mi3: surname Mi米 mǐ: 米 mi3: uncooked rice; meter (unit of length); (slang) Chinese yuan
- man-made disaster
- to overflow; to inundate; to flood; (fig.) to proliferate unchecked
- to relieve disaster; to help disaster victims
- to control; to accuse; to charge; to sue; to invert a container to empty it; (suffix) (slang) buff; enthusiast; devotee; -phile or -philia
- another province (relative to the local one)
- one falls, the next follows (idiom); stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades; advancing wave upon wave
- gorge; gulch; ravine; deep ditch
- victim (of a disaster)
- dregs of society; scum
- to focus solely on; to pay attention only to; to be preoccupied with
- the law; the law of the land; the law of a state (in former times); criterion
- (idiom) to abuse one's position for personal gain
- lit. small abacus; fig. selfish calculations; bean-counting
- (onom.) crackling of firecrackers; pitter-patter of rain; burst of applause
- for the past few years
- lit. to squander money like dirt (idiom); fig. to spend money like water; extravagant
- recent year(s)
- damaging storm; destructive typhoon
- in former years; in previous years
- to assess one's income and spend accordingly (idiom); to live within one's means; You can only spend what you earn.
- to lower; to decrease; to reduce; to subtract; to diminish