- sour; tart; sick at heart; grieved; sore; aching; pedantic; impractical; to make sarcastic remarks about sb; an acid
- gas; air; smell; weather; to make angry; to annoy; to get angry; vital energy; qi
- stinking pretension; to give oneself airs and offend others; hateful arrogance
- plain; simple; guileless; down-to-earth; sincere and honest
- diligent and attentive; assiduous; sincere
- serviceman; soldier; military personnel
- early morning; also pr. [zao3chen5]
- personally; in person; oneself
- to drill; to exercise; to go outdoors for physical exercise
- see 苦差[ku3 chai1]
- original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course
- to get out of bed; to get up
- to raise; to increase
- good opinion; favorable impression
- capable; competent
- hard to come by; rare
- apparently; it seems that
- not long (after); before too long; soon; soon after
- Zhili, a province from Ming times until 1928, roughly corresponding to present-day Hebei
- thereupon; subsequently; accordingly
- to handle; to transact; to conduct
- crash (course); accelerated (process); quick (fix); instant (success); to achieve in a short time
- forerunner; predecessor; precursor; previous incarnation (Buddhism); jacket front
- graduate
- to expand; to extend; to broaden (client base, outlook, territory etc); (computing) to scale up; to increase system capacity
- undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- domain; territory
- sense; meaning; significance; importance; CL:個|个[ge4]
- (idiom) it goes without saying; it is self-evident
- to help; to assist; to support; for sb (i.e. as a help); hired (as worker); side (of pail, boat etc); outer layer; upper (of a shoe); group; gang; clique; party; secret society
- to enroll new students; to get students
- proposition (logic, math.); to assign an essay topic
- to proctor (an exam); to invigilate
- to grade exam papers; to review case files
- to draw up a plan; to map out a program; a plan; a program
- none lacking; none missing; everything is there; everyone without exception
- to establish; to set up; to be tenable; to hold water
- first class; grade A
- clerk of a law court