Vocabulary: 订书匠
- can it be possible that; could it be
- course of events; process
- to ensure; to guarantee
- as for; as to; to go so far as to
- to penetrate deeply; thorough
- outstanding; surpassing; distinguished; splendid
- to solve; to resolve; to settle (a problem); to eliminate; to wipe out (an enemy, bandits etc)
- difficult problem
- female servant; maid
- regret; to regret; to be sorry that
- (bound form) at first; initially; (bound form) first; early; (bound form) (in lunar calendar dates, before numerals 1–10) days 1 to 10 of a month, as in 初三[chu1 san1] "the third"
- rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- qualifications; experience; seniority
- superficial
- future; tomorrow; CL:個|个[ge4]; approaching; coming; pending
- to learn through experience; experience; practiced; experienced
- to live away from home
- eaves; roof (i.e. home)
- to toast sb (with wine etc); to drink a toast
- to drink a toast
- to drop and break
- pottery and porcelain; ceramics
- chip; fragment; splinter; tatter
- not to allow; must not; can't
- to talk back; to answer back
- needed; to come in useful
- scattered and fragmentary; scraps; odds and ends
- to fold; collapsible; folding (bicycle, antenna, bed etc)
- shaver; razor
- comb; CL:把[ba3]
- as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft; to have nothing; vacuous; hollow; empty (argument, head etc)
- purse; wallet
- couple; pair
- stick; club; cudgel; smart; capable; strong; wonderful; classifier for legs of a relay race
- to bend; to curve around; curved; crooked; to wind; to warp
- magnifying glass
- scissors; CL:把[ba3]
- cobbler
- to spread out; vendor's stand
- (idiom) very few
- to sell off
- for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past
- to steal; to pilfer
- bag
- 立 lì: 立 li4: to stand; to set up; to establish; to lay down; to draw up; at once; immediately立 Lì: 立 Li4: surname Li