- vestibule; small inner room (opening to others); suite; apartment
- agreement; pact; protocol; CL:項|项[xiang4]
- soon
- unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that
- if (coming after a conditional clause)
- to play tricks; to maneuver
- classifier for affairs, events etc
- to grow up
- grace; graceful
- plain and simple; unadorned; simple living; not frivolous
- to sew; to make (clothes, bedding)
- all year round; for years on end; average year
- to meet; to hold a meeting
- to serve as; to act as; to play the role of
- to totally stop doing something; to reform one's ways
- to flaunt; to advertise; to parade; boost; excessive praise
- eccentric; peculiar; mystifying
- special assignment (military); special agent; operative; spy
- lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom); fig. to act in the nick of time
- to absorb; to draw (a lesson, insight etc); to assimilate
- misgivings; apprehensions; to worry about; to be concerned about
- to get rich
- big-bellied (idiom); paunchy
- an unemployed person
- (math.) numerical answer; solution
- to become rich
- to take a wife; to marry (a woman)
- to evade; to dodge (out of the way)
- to want to say sth but then hesitate
- laissez-faire
- to tolerate or condone wrongdoing; to allow (sb) to engage in bad behavior
- to lay down a family fortune; to get rich; to become prosperous
- to bury
- coup d'état
- head of a (government etc) department; section chief; section head; secretary; minister; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- to gossip and meddle; to shoot one's mouth off; talkative
- a dispute; to wrangle
- to get back on the right path; to mend one's ways
- to lift sth up; to elevate sb; to honor sb (with compliments, gifts, promotions etc); to show great regard; to speak highly; Taiwan pr. [tai2 ju3]
- position; post; job
- (idiom) to be a yes-man