- firm and persistent; unswerving determination
- spacious; wide; lenient
- to criticize harshly; to excoriate
- to overflow; brimming with
- to choose; to pick; to sort out; to pick up
- the opposite sex; of the opposite sex; heterosexual; different in nature
- to constantly have (sb or sth) on one's mind
- to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical
- reason; sense
- to consider (a cogent point) (usu. used as an imperative – "Think about it: ...")
- harsh; severe; demanding
- ivory tower
- honey
- white arsenic; arsenic trioxide As2O3
- refined; elegant
- 潘 pān: 潘 pan1: (archaic) water in which rice has been washed; (Tw) kitchen waste; food scraps (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [phun])潘 Pān: 潘 Pan1: surname Pan; Pan (Greek god)
- to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch
- to show off; to make a display of
- grand niece
- lit. the difference between heaven and earth (idiom); fig. night and day difference; a world of difference; a far cry (from)
- to concoct; to invent; to fabricate; to produce; to process; processing and curing (Chinese medicine)
- spearhead; barb; an attack or criticism
- to be bereaved of one's wife
- high-sounding speech; bombast; high-profile
- (coll.) to hold; to grip; to grasp
- boyfriend
- palm (of one's hand); control (extended meaning from having something in the palm of one's hand)
- critic; detractor
- to sneer at; to ridicule; to taunt
- tuberculosis; TB
- doctor's orders
- to tease; to poke fun at
- presumably; probably; in all likelihood; surely
- to pass by or through
- to be indebted (to sb)
- favorable criticism; positive evaluation