Vocabulary: 南方与北方
- lit. to move one's hands and feet about (idiom); fig. to dance about; to express one's feelings in body language; to gesture animatedly; (TCM) involuntary movements of the limbs
- Chinese photinia (Photinia serratifolia)
- growing as a thicket; overgrown; breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc)
- wasteland; uncultivated land
- strong; powerful; robust
- the time after one's death; a place behind sb; (fig.) one's social background
- to blow; to play a wind instrument; to blast; to puff; to boast; to brag; to end in failure; to fall through
- dead leaves; to lose leaves (of plants); deciduous
- effortless; not expending the slightest effort
- zone; CL:個|个[ge4]
- forward; onward
- easy; straightforward; likely; liable to; apt to
- satisfied; pleased; contented
- to finish; to be over; whole; complete; entire
- study (room); studio; CL:間|间[jian1]
- alone; by oneself; on one's own
- to stop; to bar the way
- fifteen; 15
- 子 zi: 子 zi5: noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"子 zǐ: 子 zi3: son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- to while the time away; amusement; pastime; recreation; to make sport of
- resident; inhabitant
- day by day; more and more; increasingly; more and more with each passing day
- (of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time; a derivative version of sb (or sth) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet); to spare some time for a separate task; to cut a corpse into pieces; to pull a body apart by the four limbs; parturition
- to look upon as; to regard as
- to bear hardships
- normal; regular
- should; ought to
- to oppose; to be against; to object to
- (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official)
- to wear down; to sap; to whittle away; to while away; to idle away
- Wei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals; translation of metaphysics (also translated 形而上學|形而上学)
- books; works
- to return; to come back
- teacher
- teacher; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to recommend
- box; trunk; chest
- 书 Shū: 书 Shu1: abbr. for 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]书 shū: 书 shu1: book; letter; document; CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4]; to write
- there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late
- to clear away; to eliminate; to get rid of
- so that; so as to; in order to