- imperial order
- to provide relief; to aid
- libation cup
- to disturb; to create confusion; to make a din
- nouveau riche; upstart; new appointee
- to turn over (when lying); (fig.) to free oneself; to emancipate oneself; to bring about a change of one's fortunes
- serf
- newly rich; parvenu; upstart
- for fear that; lest; also written 惟恐
- (idiom) to glare at
- sb or sth detested by all; target of scorn; anathema; cf. 老鼠過街，人人喊打|老鼠过街，人人喊打[lao3 shu3 guo4 jie1 , ren2 ren2 han3 da3]
- (idiom) surreptitious; sneaky
- to guard against; to beware of
- soar
- to collect and summarize; to aggregate (data, reports etc)
- to draw up; to draft; to formulate
- to start and finish work
- date
- to assemble; to gather
- fist; (of a product, service, project etc) flagship; key; core
- to show understanding; to excuse; to presume; to expect
- to leak (information, secrets etc); to smuggle and evade tax; to suffer shrinkage (partial loss of goods due to theft etc)
- gangster; hooligan; problem youth; at-risk youth
- call in (one's subordinates); summon (an envoy of a foreign country) to an interview
- members of the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院, employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards
- long-cherished wish
- to contend on strong grounds; to argue strongly for what is right
- rude and unreasonable
- bareheaded (in a photo)
- (literary) handwritten instruction from a superior or elder
- to swirl in the air (of thickly falling snowflakes, flower petals etc); to flutter about