- after the event; in hindsight; in retrospect
- critical opportunity
- dissident; dissenting; dissent
- rare commodity worth hoarding; object for profiteering
- to rain
- eaves; ledge or brim
- 帘 lián: 帘 lian2: flag used as a shop sign帘 lián: 帘 lian2: hanging screen or curtain
- murmur; babble (sound of water)
- flourishing blossom; a mass of flowers; luxuriant flowers
- ruins
- (idiom) to put on an act
- broomcorn millet; glutinous millet
- exceptionally good
- location; place
- not only; far from; more than
- hard to say; can't guarantee; difficult to protect; difficult to preserve
- to reappear
- Southern Dynasties (420-589)
- (dialect) balcony; terrace; (literary) high building; tower; (old) stage for theatrical performance
- misty rain; drizzle
- to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate
- 30 catties; great; your (honorific)
- itinerary; route; political line (e.g. right revisionist road); CL:條|条[tiao2]
- Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青[Jiang1 Qing1], Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋|张春桥[Zhang1 Chun1 qiao2], Yao Wenyuan 姚文元[Yao2 Wen2 yuan2], Wang Hongwen 王洪文[Wang2 Hong2 wen2], who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution
- to adopt a simplified approach; to keep things simple
- quietly; noiselessly
- see 貴溪市|贵溪市[Gui4 xi1 Shi4]
- unafraid; to defy
- to have a few drinks; to drink to one's heart's content
- friendship between gentlemen, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3])
- to moor a boat or ship
- (archaic) wooden or metal token of authority; (fig.) decree; directive; (computing) token
- to cut off (a length); to stop; to intercept; section; chunk; length
- secret police
- to whine about hardships; to complain of one's bitter lot; to complain; to grumble
- to dismount from a horse; (fig.) to abandon (a project)
- everywhere; all over
- (idiom) to find a way to survive when everything seems hopeless