Vocabulary: 订书匠
- to be patient; patience
- to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association
- to assemble; to put together
- title page; flyleaf; end paper
- 削 xiāo: 削 xiao1: to peel with a knife; to pare; to cut (a ball at tennis etc)削 xuē: 削 xue1: to pare; to reduce; to remove; Taiwan pr. [xue4]
- (printing) to stamp with gold foil; to bronze
- arts and crafts; industrial arts
- clumsy; awkward; stupid
- disappointed; to lose hope; to despair
- to glue; to paste; to adhere; to stick to
- to punch a hole
- cowhide; leather; fig. flexible and tough; boasting; big talk
- 孔 Kǒng: 孔 Kong3: surname Kong孔 kǒng: 孔 kong3: hole; CL:個|个[ge4]; classifier for cave dwellings
- occasionally; once in a while; sometimes
- to throw away; to throw out
- to practice; exercise; drill; practice; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to take a walk; to go for a walk
- to list; to make a list
- post office; CL:家[jia1],個|个[ge4]
- (purchase) order
- to prepare a meal; to cook
- attractive; alluring; captivating
- to share (a burden, a cost, a responsibility)
- household duties; housework
- morning
- to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work; to make an all-out effort; up to the neck in work
- to leave (a room etc); to go out through (a door etc)
- 劈 pī: 劈 pi1: to hack; to chop; to split open; (of lightning) to strike劈 pǐ: 劈 pi3: to split in two; to divide
- 劈柴 pī chái: 劈柴 pi1 chai2: to chop firewood; to split logs劈柴 pǐ chai: 劈柴 pi3 chai5: chopped wood; firewood
- to cast or found metals
- copper coin; copper plate; copper clappers (a kind of percussion instrument); (Tw) coin
- 累 lěi: 累 lei3: to accumulate; to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lei4]); continuous; repeated累 lèi: 累 lei4: tired; weary; to strain; to wear out; to work hard累 léi: 累 lei2: rope; to bind together; to twist around
- rest; to rest
- to comprise; to include; to involve; to incorporate; to consist of
- (raw) material; data; (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job
- to process; processing; working (of machinery)
- 写 xiè: 写 xie4: used in 寫意|写意[xie4 yi4]写 xiě: 写 xie3: to write
- complete; intact
- in the evening; when night falls; towards evening; at night fall; at dusk
- in case (sth happens); if; once (sth happens, then...); when; in a short time; in one day
- to finish work; to complete a project
- how; what way; what