Vocabulary: 订书匠
- to cut out
- to draw a circle; cliques; circles
- willow twig; osier; wicker
- to make; to manufacture
- hard lump in the abdomen (in Chinese medicine); crux of an issue; main point in an argument; sticking point; deadlock in negotiations
- fame follows merit (idiom)
- dirt; filth; grime
- to belittle; to disparage; to play down; to demean; to degrade; to devalue
- (literary) to blaspheme; to desecrate; to profane
- faint; dim; dull; insipid; unenthusiastic; indifferent
- to employ; to hire
- to focus; to concentrate; to give one's full attention
- 徒 tú: 徒 tu2: (bound form) disciple; apprentice; believer; (derog.) wrongdoer (as in 騙徒|骗徒[pian4 tu2] "swindler" or 叛徒[pan4 tu2] "traitor" etc); (bound form) on foot; (bound form) bare; empty; (bound form) to no avail; in vain; (bound form) merely; just; only; (bound form) prison sentence徒 Tú: 徒 Tu2: surname Tu
- ear; handle (archaeology); and that is all (Classical Chinese)
- (of a liquid) to boil; (of sentiments etc) to boil over; to flare up; to be impassioned
- if only it were so; I hope so (idiom)
- unfeeling; callous
- picture frame
- nail; snag; saboteur
- to correct; to rectify (e.g. a physical defect such as hearing or vision); to cure; rectification; correction; to straighten
- angle; (fig.) point of view
- in fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto
- next week
- Lord (UK hereditary nobility); UK life peer
- agent
- to treat sb with due respect (idiom)
- always (previously)
- at a glance; (in book titles) overview
- magnificent
- ability; competence
- conveniently; in passing; without much extra effort
- direction in which sb or sth has gone; whereabouts
- potential; hidden capability
- to grow; to cultivate; to train; to educate; to patronize
- to seek one's livelihood; to work to support oneself; to earn a living
- eve; the day before
- terrifying; shocking; dreadful
- (of a law, contract, agreement, ban etc) to come into force; to go into effect; to become operative
- 谜 mèi: 谜 mei4: see 謎兒|谜儿[mei4 r5], riddle谜 mí: 谜 mi2: riddle