- to write an article
- amazed; astonished; to surprise; amazing; astonishment; awe
- style of conversation
- to fawn (as flatterer)
- to be engaged in politics (esp. as a government official)
- to discuss; to comment; to criticize; to judge; to choose (by public appraisal)
- a stallion; to rise; to arrange; to stabilize; to differentiate; to judge
- political and government circles
- many years; for many years; longstanding
- political circles
- to manage by painstaking effort (idiom)
- to look forward to; to await; expectation
- Song dynasty (960-1279)
- to draw a parallel
- many times; repeatedly
- to satirize; to mock; to recite; Taiwan pr. [feng4]
- to advise; to urge; to try to persuade; to exhort; to console; to soothe
- as soon as possible; at the first opportunity; the sooner the better; before it's too late
- to return to port
- lead; leading; to lead; leadership; leader; CL:位[wei4],個|个[ge4]
- 土 Tǔ: 土 Tu3: surname Tu; Tu ethnic group土 tǔ: 土 tu3: earth; dust; clay; local; indigenous; crude opium; unsophisticated; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
- personal friendship
- to grieve; to mourn; deep sorrow; grief
- 吊 diào: 吊 diao4: to suspend; to hang up; to hang a person吊 diào: 吊 diao4: a string of 100 cash (arch.); to lament; to condole with
- intimate friend; close friend
- calamitous turn of events; (of one's complexion) to change markedly due to shock, illness etc; to turn deathly pale
- bottom of the heart (fig.)
- to esteem; to think highly of; to accord importance to; to revere
- heavy; hard; serious; critical
- regret (sense of loss or dissatisfaction)
- what kind?; how, what; somewhat
- similar; same type; alike
- to be full of admiration
- A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹[Cao2 Xue3 qin2], one of the four great novels
- 段 duàn: 段 duan4: paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc段 Duàn: 段 Duan4: surname Duan
- 大意 dà yi: 大意 da4 yi5: careless大意 dà yì: 大意 da4 yi4: general idea; main idea
- (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal
- demonic; iniquitous; nefarious; evil; unhealthy influences that cause disease (Chinese medicine); (coll.) strange; abnormal
- to wash; to squander; to sweep away; to move; to shake; dissolute; pond
- to overflow; (literary) excessive
- the full light of day (idiom); fig. peace and prosperity; in broad daylight
- to condense; to solidify; to coagulate; clot (of blood)
- congestion; to block; to congest; to crowd; to choke; to cram; to fill up; to stuff; to take up all the space