- to deconstruct
- to reconstruct; reconstruction; (computing) refactoring
- 团 tuán: 团 tuan2: round; lump; ball; to roll into a ball; to gather; regiment; group; society; classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke)团 tuán: 团 tuan2: dumpling
- reporter; journalist; CL:個|个[ge4]
- essential factor; key constituent
- overly conservative; old-fashioned; old fogey; a square
- Qian Xuesen (1911-2009), Chinese scientist and aeronautical engineer
- absurd; fantastic; presumptuous; rash
- relying on; on the basis of
- (idiom) to imagine the wildest thing; to indulge in fantasy
- Peng Zu (legendary figure of Taoism who lived 800 years)
- to make divine; apotheosis
- to become alienated; estranged; alienation; disaffection; set wide apart
- (linguistics) inverted sentence
- silent; to write from memory
- homework; assignment; task; classwork; lesson; study; CL:門|门[men2]
- to be weary of; to be fed up with; to be bored with
- tired; exhausted; worn out; to toil
- usual; common; ordinary
- to persevere; perseverance
- to touch; to meet with; to bump
- (idiom) just as in the past; as before; continuing as always
- hourly worker; hourly job
- weekly salary
- café; coffee shop; CL:家[jia1]
- to work a temporary or casual job; (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation
- monthly income (in kind)
- Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦[Hong2 lou2 Meng4]
- A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹[Cao2 Xue3 qin2], one of the four great novels
- fruit (produced by a plant); (fig.) fruits (of success etc); results; gains
- to repay a favor; to give back; feedback
- 个头 ge tóu: 个头 ge5 tou2: (coll.) my ass!; yeah, right! (used to mock a claim sb just made, as in 專家個頭|专家个头[zhuan1 jia1 ge5 tou2] "expert", my ass!)个头 gè tóu: 个头 ge4 tou2: size; height
- to say more than is necessary; to give unnecessary details
- tireless; untiring; indefatigable
- to ensure; to guarantee; to safeguard
- (literary) to change one's residence