- engagement; wedding contract
- to tear up; to rip up; too shred
- lit. until the seas dry up and stones go soft (idiom); fig. forever; until the end of time
- miserable; wretched
- to change into
- muffler; scarf
- sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences
- firm; steady; staunch; resolute
- contrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down; to reverse; to return; to oppose; opposite; against; anti-; to rebel; to use analogy; instead; abbr. for 反切[fan3 qie4] phonetic system
- to talk irresponsibly; to talk nonsense
- condition; circumstance; term; factor; requirement; prerequisite; qualification; situation; state; condition; CL:個|个[ge4]
- walking corpse (idiom); zombie; person who lives only on the material level
- docile and obedient; all obedience
- (idiom) (of a woman) bewitching; charming
- (drawing and painting) perspective; (medicine) to perform fluoroscopy; to examine by X-ray; (fig.) to take a penetrating look at sth; to gain insight
- pure white
- bud
- 哗 huá: 哗 hua2: clamor; noise; (bound form) sound used to call cats哗 huā: 哗 hua1: (onom.) bang; clang; sound of gurgling, splashing or flowing water; (interjection expressing surprise) wow
- to take the bait
- to raise one's head; to perk up
- (idiom) to treat sth as no big deal; to downplay; to understate
- to braise in soy sauce until reddish-brown
- god; spirit; demon; occult or supernatural entities in general
- lit. eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom); fig. arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive
- 雨 yǔ: 雨 yu3: rain; CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2]雨 yù: 雨 yu4: (literary) to rain; (of rain, snow etc) to fall; to precipitate; to wet
- to collide; jerking motion; to impinge; to offend; to provoke
- shining clean; bright (moonlight)
- to stare blankly; to look on helplessly; to look on unfeelingly
- lifelike; true to life; distinctly; clearly
- sound of snoring
- to give special approval
- branch of study; administrative section; division; field; branch; stage directions; family (taxonomy); rules; laws; to mete out (punishment); to levy (taxes etc); to fine sb; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to be transferred to another post; to post away