- telephone; CL:部[bu4]; phone call; CL:通[tong1]; phone number
- thread; string; wire; line; CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3],根[gen1]; (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)
- radio; wireless (i.e. the technology used in radio telecommunication); a radio
- to understand; to realize; to find out
- to read newspapers
- newspaper; newsprint; CL:份[fen4],期[qi1],張|张[zhang1]
- therefore; as a result; so; the reason why
- to lag behind
- fully; no less than; as much as; extremely
- before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand
- to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true
- difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation
- to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking
- indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc)
- Shakespeare (name); William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright
- 写 xiè: 写 xie4: used in 寫意|写意[xie4 yi4]写 xiě: 写 xie3: to write
- tragedy; CL:齣|出[chu1]
- to handle; to take care of; to punish
- wealth; riches
- to divide up; to partition; to differentiate
- to comprise; to include; to involve; to incorporate; to consist of
- fighter (aircraft)
- aircraft carrier (CL:艘[sou1]); (fig.) juggernaut
- nuclear weapon
- ordained or appointed to a post; to benefit from counsel
- to check; to make inventory
- property; assets; estate; CL:筆|笔[bi3]
- to value; to appraise; to be valued at; estimate; valuation
- perhaps; maybe
- first of all; in the first place
- 弄 lòng: 弄 long4: lane; alley弄 nòng: 弄 nong4: to do; to manage; to handle; to play with; to fool with; to mess with; to fix; to toy with
- what are you doing?; what's he up to?
- mysterious; mystery
- expense; cost; to spend (time or money); expenditure
- a huge sum; an enormous amount (of money)
- funds; capital
- but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though
- department; branch; section; division; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5]
- use; application
- taciturn; uncommunicative; silent
- then; after that; afterwards
- to laugh; to smile; to laugh at
- map; CL:張|张[zhang1],本[ben3]
- to find
- clear; distinct; to understand thoroughly; to be clear about
- boss; superior
- surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled; a certain ...; a given ...