- paternal aunt; husband's sister; husband's mother (old); nun; for the time being (literary)
- mother's sister; aunt
- adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
- adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
- (coll.) mother's sister; maternal aunt
- to quarrel; to make a noise; noisy; to disturb by making a noise
- to coach; to train; instructor; sports coach; trainer (CL:位[wei4],名[ming2])
- quaint; odd and picturesque; weird and wonderful
- to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it
- so angry it's unbearable; bitter about unbearable grievances
- wife and child
- method; way; technique; procedure
- to swarm around; flocking (to see)
- to take revenge and wipe out a grudge (idiom)
- puzzle; mystery
- light-years (apart); a million miles (apart); (i.e. indicates a huge difference or a huge distance)
- to confiscate; to seize
- civil official
- to catch (a disease); to get (a bad habit)
- plague; a blight
- see 河北省[He2 bei3 Sheng3]
- typhoid
- dysentery
- foot-and-mouth disease (FMD); aphthous fever
- animals used for their physical strength (mules, oxen etc); beast of burden
- to search everywhere; to search high and low; to comb
- sixty; 60
- old woman (at times contemptuous)
- profound; abstruse; recondite; profoundly
- to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander