- to take down (in writing); notes; a type of literature consisting mainly of short sketches; CL:本[ben3]
- portrait; to describe sth accurately
- astute; perspicacious; farsighted
- to sign (a contract, treaty etc)
- treaty; pact; CL:個|个[ge4]
- Indian Ocean
- the tropics; tropical
- starry sky; the star-studded heavens
- to spill; to overflow (of water, crowds); to crowd (into a space)
- phantom; mirage
- graceful; lithe; light and graceful; lighthearted; relaxed
- bright; resplendent
- to put pen to paper; to start to write or draw
- to ache dully
- tender and lovely; fragile; delicate
- to suppose; to presume; to assume; supposing that ...; if; hypothesis; conjecture
- to write; to do the actual writing
- old dreams
- blood relationship; genetic relationship; consanguinity
- mournful; sad; grieved; sorry
- to freeze (water etc); (fig.) to freeze (assets, prices etc)
- (of a wound) to heal
- exceedingly; hundred percent; everything and more
- to appear in the news; in the papers
- to make inquiries; to try to find out; to pry
- mother; young lady; (coll.) effeminate
- to escape; to flee; to run for one's life
- bitter; painful; deeply distressed
- calm; cool
- cannot conceal (a matter) from (sb)
- conciliation; mediation; to mollify; to propitiate; to reconcile
- let alone; to say nothing of; besides; what's more
- from now on; henceforward
- to look upon; to regard