- common problem; common failing
- Star Wars
- quality goods; premium product; fine work (of art)
- to build (housing); to construct; to make
- origin; to originate; to come from
- omnipresent
- sense; sense organ
- to sense; to perceive; to become aware of; to detect
- common; ordinary; general; average
- word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases); term (e.g. technical term); expression
- convenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy; having money to spare; (euphemism) to relieve oneself
- (idiom) just passable; barely satisfactory
- how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things?
- after all; to investigate; to study carefully; Taiwan pr. [jiu4]
- to chat
- to hit a wall; (fig.) to hit a brick wall; to hit a snag; to have the door slammed in one's face
- unemployment; to lose one's job
- to accept; to adopt
- alarmed; anxious
- so as not to; so as to avoid
- everything
- at home wherever one is (idiom); ready to adapt; flexible; to accept circumstances with good will
- to think critically; (philosophy) to reason; to speculate
- Gongsun Long (c. 325-250 BC), leading thinker of the School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
- to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist
- meaning (implicit in a phrase); implied meaning; hidden meaning; hint; connotation
- to mention; to raise (a subject); to bring to sb's attention
- the time; the right time; weather conditions; destiny; course of time; heaven's natural order
- favorable location; in the right place; productivity of land
- Xunzi, (c. 310-237 BC), Confucian philosopher; the Xunzi, a collection of philosophical writings attributed to Xunzi
- doctrine (esp. religious); argumentation (in a speech or essay)
- interlinked; connected; communicating; in communication; accommodating
- supreme; paramount; unsurpassed
- inextricably linked (idiom); inseparable
- both of them; the two of them