- to convert; to turn into (sth else); to adapt (a story to another medium)
- famous piece of writing
- border town; remote town
- to reveal outstanding talent (idiom); to stand out as conspicuously brilliant
- quiet; making little or no noise; surreptitious; stealthy; anxious; worried; Taiwan pr. [qiao3qiao3]
- property; belongings
- sweetened bean paste
- empty; vacuous; nothing; vacant; in vain; all for nothing; air-to-air (missile)
- brocade
- Guo Moruo (1892-1978), writer, communist party intellectual and cultural apparatchik
- Hong Kong, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC (short name 港[Gang3])
- written slogan; placard; CL:幅[fu2],張|张[zhang1],條|条[tiao2]
- to be frightened; fear; dread
- to come down with; to be afflicted with (an illness)
- (psychology) depression
- to fall behind; to lag (in technology etc); backward; to retrogress
- to impede; to obstruct; to hold back
- to collapse; to crumble; to fall apart
- to have three meals a day
- lit. to send charcoal in snowy weather (idiom); fig. to provide help in sb's hour of need
- to be able to withstand; to be able to endure
- to tag along (with sb); (in combination with 與|与[yu3] or 和[he2]) to accompany (sb); (fig.) (of one situation) to go hand in hand (with another)
- to act as go-between (between prospective marriage partners etc)
- to bury the hatchet; to become reconciled
- to talk about often; to reminisce about; to keep repeating; to keep harping on; to discuss
- of the same generation
- blanket
- (idiom) to show concern about sb's well-being
- postnatal
- to encourage; to cut; to strain
- to feel very apologetic
- in common usage
- (idiom) to have never met; to be complete strangers
- to estimate; to select
- blue and white porcelain
- (idiom) penniless; completely broke