Vocabulary: 繁花
- to injure sb
- life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:條|条[tiao2])
- to lie low (until the fuss dies down)
- complaint
- woman from a respectable family; respectable woman
- (lit. quantity of spirit); moral character; degree of forbearance; broad-mindedness or otherwise; tolerance; magnanimity
- to advance bravely
- wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas; the whole wide world; chatting about everything under the sun
- a manly man; a man of character
- rather die than submit (idiom)
- can bow and submit, or can stand tall (idiom, from Book of Changes); ready to give and take; flexible
- in broad daylight
- mutual affection; friendship
- to rub against; to walk slowly; (coll.) to freeload
- (historical) privately hired legal or administrative advisor to a government official; teacher's teacher (in academic lineage)
- to be able to endure (exertion, fatigue etc); to be able to afford
- lit. a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying); fig. even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood
- the pavilion closest to the water enjoys moonlight first (idiom); to benefit from intimacy with an influential person
- to organize; to put together; to edit
- shadowboxing or Taiji, T'aichi or T'aichichuan; traditional form of physical exercise or relaxation; a martial art
- to poison; (fig.) to spread vicious rumors
- taboo; to avoid as taboo; to abstain from
- three-shift system (work rostering)
- personal considerations; love affair
- to observe; to watch; to survey
- accurate; precise
- harsh; severe; demanding
- (idiom) people coming and going; bustling with activity
- to pardon; to forgive; to show tolerance; to contain; to hold; inclusive
- to collapse (of building); to topple over
- grandma (paternal) (Tw); (dialect) mother; nurse; amah; (Manchu) father
- wife's family (before marriage)
- to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc); burden
- to walk quietly on tiptoe (idiom)