- to entreat piteously; to implore
- to help one another; to aid
- to worm one's way into being friends with sb (usually derogatory)
- to crack (seeds) between one's teeth
- high sounding and impractical; high flown nonsense
- place; seat
- to preserve; to save
- When the tree topples the monkeys scatter. (idiom); fig. an opportunist abandons an unfavorable cause; Rats leave a sinking ship.
- 戚 qī: 戚 qi1: grief; sorrow戚 qī: 戚 qi1: (bound form) relatives; kin; (bound form) grief; sorrow; (old) battle-axe戚 Qī: 戚 Qi1: surname Qi
- to have free rein (idiom)
- administrator; executive secretary
- to make painstaking efforts (idiom); after much trouble; to work hard at sth
- biological mother; real mom
- an unforeseen event; accident; misfortune
- to complicate; to become complicated
- aunt; wife of father's younger brother
- to advance; forward motion
- At the Crossroads, famous opera, based on a story from 水滸傳|水浒传[Shui3 hu3 Zhuan4]
- to hand over (responsibility for sth) to (sb); to leave it to (sb else to take charge of the next stage of a process)
- choice of person; candidate
- (bound form) rail; track; course; path
- old in years
- residual heat; surplus heat; waste heat; (fig.) capacity of retirees to continue to work
- to glint; to glitter; to sparkle; to radiate
- to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
- to admire
- to get a job; employment
- consider; estimate
- vocational secondary school; technical secondary school (abbr. for 中等專業學校|中等专业学校[zhong1 deng3 zhuan1 ye4 xue2 xiao4])
- construction; to carry out construction or large-scale repairs
- to hold a post; to take office
- scholarship; high-level study; to do scholarly research; to pursue a high level of study
- warrior; activist
- discussion
- wave; breaker; unrestrained; dissipated; to stroll; to ramble
- grounds (for an argument); contention; thesis