- lit. robust years; prime of life; summer; able-bodied (fit for military service); mature (talent, garden etc)
- with great prospects for the future (idiom); well worth doing
- 屠 Tú: 屠 Tu2: surname Tu屠 tú: 屠 tu2: to slaughter (animals for food); to massacre
- French (language)
- not to have access; beyond one's authority or capability; sth one has no way of doing
- loyal advice jars on the ears (idiom)
- obedient; to comply; to submit; to defer
- to disobey; to defy an edict; to violate; to go against; to run counter to
- 转头 zhuǎn tóu: 转头 zhuan3 tou2: to turn one's head; to change direction; U-turn; volte face; to repent转头 zhuàn tóu: 转头 zhuan4 tou2: nutation (plants turning to face the sun)
- outward devotion but inner opposition (idiom); to pay lip service; to agree overtly, but oppose in secret
- grade 2; second class; category B
- to receive
- to absorb; to draw (a lesson, insight etc); to assimilate
- next time
- not valid; ineffective; in vain
- refined; profound
- to browse; to look over (books)
- Ye Ting (1896-1946), communist military leader
- New Fourth Army Incident of 1940, involving fighting between the Nationalists and Communists
- prison
- to surrender; to succumb; to yield; (as a transitive verb) to defeat; to prevail over
- relative superiority (better or worse, stronger or weaker, above or below etc)
- to pit oneself against sb; to compete with sb; contest; battle; to haggle; to quibble
- art of war; military strategy and tactics
- scribe; court recorder; historian; historiographer
- two-character surname Taishi
- to die suddenly
- to behead
- to succeed sb in a job; successor
- younger brother; junior male; I (modest word in letter)
- stubborn; obstinate; unbending
- outside the door
- writing brush; writing implement (pen, pencil etc) (CL:支[zhi1],枝[zhi1]); brushstroke; stroke (in painting or calligraphy); (bound form) style of writing; literary manner; technique of brushwork; (classifier) stroke of a Chinese character; (classifier) sum of money; financial transaction; piece of business; (literary) to write (with a brush or pen)
- a book; a volume
- brave; heroic
- fountainhead; well-spring; water source; fig. origin
- science fiction novel
- outer space