- Czech Republic
- University of Pennsylvania
- lasting until; up till (the present)
- town councilor; city councilor; alderman
- inclined; slanting; oblique; tilting
- equal; equally; equivalent
- round; circular
- ticket; ballot; banknote; CL:張|张[zhang1]; person held for ransom; amateur performance of Chinese opera; classifier for groups, batches, business transactions
- to throw into; to put into; to throw oneself into; to participate in; to invest in; absorbed; engrossed
- same principle
- pharmacy; drugstore
- suzerain state; mother country (of a colony)
- head office; general office; central office
- Harvard
- to officially launch (a policy, program etc); to appear on stage; to appear publicly; (of a bar girl) to leave with a client
- to give a present
- brother's son; nephew
- centralized state power
- to act as one thinks fit; to have one's own way
- direction; trend; to incline
- trend; tendency
- essay
- Bari (Puglia, Italy)
- simplification; to simplify
- strong; powerful; (linguistics) emphatic; intensive
- on end; in a row; in succession
- political situation
- 氏 shì: 氏 shi4: (bound form) family name; surname (as in 王氏[Wang2 shi4] "the Wang clan"); (bound form) maiden name; née (as in 李王氏[Li3 Wang2 shi4] "Mrs. Li, née Wang"); (bound form) honorific suffix added to the surname or full name of a notable person, esp. historical or scholarly figures氏 zhī: 氏 zhi1: used in 月氏[Yue4 zhi1]; used in 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1]
- incident; event
- as different as can be (idiom); poles apart
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616), Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, author of Don Quixote 堂吉訶德|堂吉诃德[Tang2 ji2 he1 de2]
- Don Quixote
- to go out and come in; entrance and exit; expenditure and income; discrepancy; inconsistent
- to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult
- charter
- sovereignty; dominion; dominance