- wide expanse; large area; vast stretch; extending widely; blockbuster movie
- reason; cause
- to collate and examine critically (texts etc)
- (idiom) top priority job; a matter of the greatest urgency
- to shed tears
- to search; to seek; to explore
- toxicity
- valley; gully; mountain region
- deep valley; ravine
- to worry; anxiety (about)
- to ponder; to speculate; to consider; to guess
- provoke, incite; stir up; arouse (attention)
- to be worried; to be distressed; worries
- to say clearly; to argue clearly; to pronounce; pronounced
- to fight, esp. with hands; wrestling (as a sport); to wrestle; to wrestle (against fate, with a problem etc); to capture prey
- lit. to proclaim oneself hegemon; to take a leading role; to build a personal fiefdom
- slightly; roughly; briefly; very generally
- the greater part; the majority; most
- to rely mainly on; to attach most importance to
- 好处 hǎo chǔ: 好处 hao3 chu3: easy to get along with好处 hǎo chu: 好处 hao3 chu5: benefit; advantage; merit; gain; profit; also pr. [hao3chu4]
- to immerse oneself in; engrossed in sth; to lower the head (e.g. to avoid rain); countersunk (of screws, rivets etc)
- to train hard; to practice diligently; hard work; blood, sweat, and tears
- small and exquisite; delicate; fine (features); compact; nifty
- to move; to shift; to move out of the way; to divert (money etc) to a different purpose
- lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. follow a prescribed pattern to the letter; scrupulous attention to detail
- firm and substantial; solid
- to keep fit and healthy
- camel (CL:峰[feng1],匹[pi3],頭|头[tou2]); (coll.) blockhead; ninny
- 壮 zhuàng: 壮 zhuang4: to strengthen; strong; robust壮 Zhuàng: 壮 Zhuang4: Zhuang ethnic group, the largest ethnic minority in China
- to supervise and urge completion of a task; to urge on
- untiring; unremitting; indefatigable
- I have been enlightened by your teaching (humble)
- to lose heart; to be discouraged
- disciple; apprentice
- to have a prior engagement
- to give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished
- skillful in; proficient in; adept at
- to calculate; to compute; to consider; to think over; to plot; to scheme