- one's whole life; throughout one's life
- majority; most
- (idiom) bustling with activity
- to sublimate; sublimation (physics); to raise to a higher level; to refine; promotion
- police cordon; alert level
- right side; right, to the right
- inconvenient; inappropriate; unsuitable; short of cash
- lit. the eye cannot recognize the letter T (idiom); totally illiterate
- to hinder; to obstruct
- one's superior; one's elders and betters
- (idiom) willing to help others
- to skim (through a book); to read cursorily; to dip into
- to know how to count and do sums; numerate; numeracy
- skill; art
- compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues; mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical
- circumstances; situation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- legislation; statute
- 渐 jiàn: 渐 jian4: gradual; gradually渐 jiān: 渐 jian1: to imbue
- dried meat presented by pupils to their teacher at their first meeting (in ancient times); dried; withered
- to pay; to cover the costs
- refrigerator; (old) icebox
- to deposit; to store; to leave in sb's care
- assessment; evaluation
- unable to get anything to eat; to miss a meal
- princes and dukes; aristocrat
- handicapped
- to start; to begin; to initiate (an era, process, journey etc); (computing) to enable (a feature); (of a system or device) to start operating automatically; to self-initiate; to open (sth that has been sealed)
- child; the younger generation
- to learn to read; able to read; literate
- Prometheus, a Titan god of fire in Greek mythology
- tinder; source of a fire; inflammable material; (fig.) spark (of a revolution etc)
- to accept an applicant (prospective student, employee etc) who passes an entrance exam; to admit (a student); to hire (a job candidate)
- a thousand miles; a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers); a long distance
- sense of achievement
- thaler or taler (currency of various Germanic countries in 15th-19th centuries) (loanword)
- 布 bù: 布 bu4: to announce; to spread布 bù: 布 bu4: cloth; to declare; to announce; to spread; to make known
- to mumble; to mutter to oneself