- prefecture; (old) province; (old) administrative division; state (e.g. of US); oblast (Russia); canton (Switzerland)
- moist
- bewildered; amazed
- one's bosom (the seat of emotions); breast; broad-minded and open; to think about; to cherish
- to be ambitious
- to degrade; to degenerate; to become depraved; corrupt; a fall from grace
- by the end of the year; at the end of the year; shortly before New Year
- to follow; to adhere to; to abide by
- locus; orbit; trajectory; track
- heaven
- lit. burn your hand, feel the heat (idiom); fig. arrogance of the powerful; a mighty figure no-one dares approach; hot (exciting or in favor)
- too rich to be a good match (in marriage) (idiom)
- easy; simple; rashly; offhandedly
- to fawn on; to curry favor with; to make up to
- to fawn on; to flatter; to ingratiate oneself; flattery
- to plan; to intend; to calculate; plan; intention; calculation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- (of sb who ostensibly collaborated with the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945) to secretly work for the Nationalists or against the Communists
- a good thing doesn't last forever (idiom)
- to break the law
- to punish sb (for a crime)
- to sack; to remove from a position; to depose
- to investigate and handle (a criminal case)
- close; familiar; intimate; closely (related); to foster close ties; to pay close attention
- see 桂陽縣|桂阳县[Gui4 yang2 Xian4]
- government sub-prefect (old)
- lit. to return to office after living as a hermit on Mount Dongshan (idiom); fig. to make a comeback
- to pressure; to press; to force; to compel; to push; to coerce; to urge; to impel; to bully into; to be compelled
- background (academic and work); curriculum vitae; résumé
- see 四川省[Si4 chuan1 Sheng3]
- (provincial) department of education
- 熬 āo: 熬 ao1: to simmer; to boil slowly熬 áo: 熬 ao2: to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct; to endure
- (coll.) even if
- 啦 la: 啦 la5: sentence-final particle, contraction of 了啊, indicating exclamation; particle placed after each item in a list of examples啦 lā: 啦 la1: (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat
- to continue the struggle (idiom); to persist; unremitting efforts
- to seek; to strive for
- in mourning
- to have one's wish fulfilled
- to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差[chu1 chai1]); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家[chu1 jia1])