Vocabulary: 南方与北方
- pickax
- to hook; to sew; to crochet; hook; check mark or tick; window catch
- (bound form) sickle
- flail
- currently existing; currently available
- practiced; proficient; skilled; skillful
- manpower; staff; human hand
- to grasp; to hold; to operate; to manage; to control; to steer; to exercise; to drill (practice); to play; to speak (a language)
- farm implements; farm tools
- hardships; arduous; difficult
- rich; full; substantial; to enrich; to augment; to substantiate (an argument)
- skill; art
- to lock; to lock up; a lock (CL:把[ba3])
- to refute; to debunk; to deny; to denounce
- to weigh down; to trouble; to implicate (sb); tied down (by affairs)
- lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis
- lit. belly full of complaints (idiom); discontent; always moaning and complaining
- stammeringly
- nature; innate tendency
- abstract; abstraction; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- eternal; everlasting; fig. to pass into eternity (i.e. to die)
- mercy
- 汪 Wāng: 汪 Wang1: surname Wang汪 wāng: 汪 wang1: expanse of water; ooze; (onom.) bark; classifier for liquids: pool, puddle
- desperate straits
- to hurl abuse; to deride; to call sb names
- to recall; to revoke; to retract
- hostile; enemy (factions); combative
- army; main forces
- narrow; cramped
- to capture; to restrain; to constrain; to adhere rigidly to; inflexible
- speed; rate; velocity; (music) tempo
- more than half; greater part; most; probably; most likely
- fatalism; fatalistic
- fascinating; enchanting; charming; tempting
- active; lively; excited; to enliven; to brighten up
- to indulge in; to wallow in
- self-sufficient; satisfied with oneself
- to draw up a plan; to map out a program; a plan; a program
- (idiom) muddleheaded
- brotherly affection
- inferior quality; substandard; low-grade