- knowledge; CL:門|门[men2]; intellectual
- number; amount
- connection; contact; relation; to get in touch with; to integrate; to link; to touch
- difference; to distinguish; to discriminate; to make a distinction; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to strive for; to vie for; to argue or debate; deficient or lacking (dialect); how or what (literary)
- to begin; to start; then; only then
- to flatter; to laud sb's accomplishments; adulation
- famous school; noted school of thought
- sentence
- Live as long as the Zhongnan Mountains! (idiom); Long may you live!
- barely; only; merely; only (this and nothing more)
- official rank and salary
- clear; distinct; obvious
- case; (for) instance; example; CL:個|个[ge4]
- homeless and miserable (idiom); to wander about in a desperate plight; to drift
- to work as a teacher; to teach (in a school)
- to scrape a meager living; to get by with difficulty
- later generation
- regret; to regret; to be sorry that
- raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever
- need not; does not have to; not necessarily
- sedan chair; palanquin; litter
- lit. a brick as a door knocker (idiom); fig. a temporary expedient; to use sb as a stepping stone to fortune
- magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower; all the King's horses and all the King's men
- single-log bridge; (fig.) difficult path
- unlikely to go so far as to; not as bad as
- to pick out; to select; to elect
- (idiom) to be bent solely on profit; to put profit before everything else
- dregs of society; scum
- scum of a community; degenerate
- toy; plaything; thing; act; trick (in a performance, stage show, acrobatics etc)
- or; either one or the other
- one's mind
- flower vase; (fig.) female employee considered to be just a pretty face (attractive but not very competent)
- obstinate; stubborn; to fixate on; to cling to
- to hold fast to; to stick to