- lucrative post
- cushy job; pleasant task
- shortage of money
- to be greedy in getting money
- to have one's ambitions elsewhere (idiom)
- unreconciled to; not resigned to; unwilling
- mediocre
- lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time; making every second count
- to practice; field work; to intern; internship
- having high fighting spirit
- building; construction; civil engineering
- 堡 bǔ: 堡 bu3: village (used in place names)堡 pù: 堡 pu4: used in place names堡 bǎo: 堡 bao3: (bound form) fortress; stronghold; (often used to transliterate -berg, -burg etc in place names); (bound form) burger (abbr. for 漢堡|汉堡[han4 bao3])
- to keep quiet out of fear (idiom)
- to witness; to see at first hand; to see with one's own eyes
- boundless; vast and obscure
- deeply; heavily
- angry; indignant; wrath; ire
- wording; way of expressing something; turn of phrase; diction
- to rest with; to lie in; to be due to (a certain attribute); (of a matter) to be determined by; to be up to (sb)
- 托 tūo: 托 tuo1: to hold up in one's hand; to support with one's palm; sth serving as a support: a prop, a rest (e.g. arm rest); (bound form) a shill; torr (unit of pressure)托 tūo: 托 tuo1: to trust; to entrust; to be entrusted with; to act as trustee
- cautious; careful; prudent
- mature; experienced; sophisticated
- name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people
- inside; inner; internal; within; interior
- to hope; to admire
- to love; to pamper; to spoil; to favor
- to inhibit; to keep down; to suppress
- grand duke; impartial
- honest; upright
- timid; cowardly; chicken-hearted
- to continue the same old routine; to carry on just as before; to procrastinate
- literal-minded; pedantic; doctrinaire; longwinded; circuitous
- to put forward a suggestion (to sb in a senior position); to offer a word of advice
- fickle and impatient; restless; giddy; scatterbrained
- to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander; news; (coll.) to delay; to dilly-dally
- (literary) devastated
- laws and discipline of imperial court
- lacking in vitality; depressed (market, spirits etc)
- a person with knowledge and experience (idiom)
- bitter and hateful (idiom); to grieve and lament (over sth)
- (in) the past few days; recently; (within) the next few days
- border area; frontier
- to be alert