- crafty plots and machinations (idiom)
- incorporeal; virtual; formless; invisible (assets); intangible
- power; momentum; tendency; impetus; situation; the look of things
- to have a high temperature; feverish; unable to think calmly; to emit heat
- polite and modest
- insignificant; trifling; merely
- (idiom) barren; devoid of vegetation
- just as if
- Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet
- Yellow River or Huang He
- edge of the water; waterside; shore (of sea, lake or river)
- sound of sobbing
- shoes and socks
- to bruise; to hurt (something)
- (of skin) satiny
- 扛 káng: 扛 kang2: to carry on one's shoulder; (fig.) to take on (a burden, duty etc)扛 gāng: 扛 gang1: to raise aloft with both hands; (of two or more people) to carry sth together
- 下水 xià shui: 下水 xia4 shui5: offal; viscera; tripe下水 xià shǔi: 下水 xia4 shui3: downstream; to go into the water; to put into water; to launch (a ship); fig. to fall into bad ways; to lead astray; to go to pot
- to fall; to drop; to weigh down
- mainstay; cornerstone; tower of strength
- huge rock; boulder; monolith
- 蓬蓬 péng péng: 蓬蓬 peng2 peng2: luxuriant; abundant; (onom.) booming sound of wind蓬蓬 péng peng: 蓬蓬 peng2 peng5: overgrown; unkempt (of hair)
- to tumble
- abyss
- echo; reply; turn (ornament in music)
- to flow at great speed; to pour; racing current
- 吊 diào: 吊 diao4: to suspend; to hang up; to hang a person吊 diào: 吊 diao4: a string of 100 cash (arch.); to lament; to condole with
- to run away; to escape
- to attack; to batter; (of waves) to pound against; shock; impact