- (it) hurts; sore; to love dearly
- don't!; must not
- mood; frame of mind
- free; unimpeded; smooth; at ease; free from worry; fluent
- moist; wet
- just now; a moment ago
- indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc)
- half of the day; a long time; quite a while
- unfit for anything; no good; useless; (of a sick person) beyond hope
- battle of wits
- several days
- grieved; distressed
- 逼 bī: 逼 bi1: to compel; to pressure逼 bī: 逼 bi1: to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on
- in the end; after all; eventually
- clean; neat
- 延 Yán: 延 Yan2: surname Yan延 yán: 延 yan2: to prolong; to extend; to delay
- several years; many years
- one's whole life; throughout one's life
- (idiom) ruined in a short time (esp. of sth that took a long time or great effort to achieve)
- dregs; draff; pickled in wine; rotten; messy; ruined
- see 老頭子|老头子[lao3 tou2 zi5]
- the least bit
- skill; art; kung fu; labor; effort
- heart; intention; one's inclination; state of mind; to have the heart for sth; mood
- to warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather); heat; fervent
- when things come to a head (idiom)
- to take things philosophically
- won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?
- to stop; to pause; to arrange; to lay out; to kowtow; to stamp (one's foot); at once; classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
- serious; solemn; earnest; conscientious
- to have no alternative (idiom); compelled by circumstances; forced into sth
- to seek; to look for; to request; to demand; to beseech
- difficult; hard; challenging
- to disobey; to violate; to separate; to go against
- natural instincts; nature; inherent quality
- cannot; must not; should not
- to take upon oneself; to assume
- tone of voice; the way one speaks; manner of expression; tone
- master and disciple