- to fight; to combat; to seize; (of heart) to beat
- oneself and one's family; family background; pedigree; one's property; one's total assets
- to summarize; to generalize; briefly; in broad outline
- to bet; to make a bet; a wager
- poor and with low expectations; poverty stunts ambition
- to pretend; to feign; to act a part
- culinary delicacy; fine food; gourmet food
- good wine; fine liquor
- etiquette
- Greek literature
- (coll.) very; really
- Winter Olympics
- silver medal; CL:枚[mei2]
- suit; Western-style clothes (historical usage)
- to pretend to be (asleep etc); to disguise oneself as; pretense; disguise; (military) to camouflage; camouflage
- merit; benefit; strong point; advantage; CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4]
- not always; not entirely; not necessarily so; not entirely correct
- sth that people like to chat about; topic of idle conversation
- Himalayas
- sweetheart; one's beloved
- opposing force (in war games); hypothetical enemy (in strategic studies)
- Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900
- to invade; invasion
- to sign up; to enter one's name; to apply; to register; to enroll; to enlist
- to join the army; (official title in imperial China) military adviser; aide-de-camp
- close-fitting; closest (translation)
- tyrant; despot
- as things really are; realistic
- to one's taste; to one's liking
- to change (appearance); to change shape
- 呗 bài: 呗 bai4: (bound form) to chant (from Sanskrit "pāṭhaka")呗 bei: 呗 bei5: modal particle indicating lack of enthusiasm; modal particle indicating that things should only or can only be done a certain way
- child; kid (used to refer to a child, or by an adult to address a child, or, in Taiwan, to refer to sb's own child)
- elder brother (often used self-referentially); (form of address between male friends) old chap; buddy
- (Tw) syndrome
- to talk big; to brag; to shoot off one's mouth; (dialect) to chat idly
- newly rich; parvenu; upstart
- football played with oval-shaped ball (rugby, American football, Australian rules etc)
- bruise; bump
- to make reprisals; to retaliate; revenge; retaliation
- friendly match; friendly competition