Vocabulary: 南方与北方
- hard to take; embarrassed
- unsuitable; improper; inappropriate
- sophisticated; advanced (technology etc); meritorious; exemplary (deeds etc)
- Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)
- system; organization
- to know from experience; to learn through experience; to realize; understanding; experience
- complete; intact
- heart's blood; expenditure (for some project); meticulous care
- ingrained; entrenched; deep-rooted
- fountainhead; well-spring; water source; fig. origin
- prologue of play; opening remarks; preamble (of speeches, articles etc)
- jointly (signed, declared, sponsored)
- before leaving; on departure
- grieved; sorrowful
- this lifetime
- warm; genial
- (idiom) standoffish; indifferent
- investment; to invest
- land price
- to rent; to lease
- unable to make sense of (sth)
- to keep an appointment; to keep one's word
- starting point
- half of a lifetime
- negligible; insignificant
- accounts; financial records; accounting entry
- list of items
- first draft; to draw up (a first version)
- zero; nought; zero sign; fractional; fragmentary; odd (of numbers); (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one); fraction; (in mathematics) remainder (after division); extra; to wither and fall; to wither
- bank; CL:家[jia1],個|个[ge4]
- interest (on a loan); CL:筆|笔[bi3]
- a loan; CL:筆|笔[bi3]; to provide a loan (e.g. bank); to raise a loan (from e.g. a bank)