- I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint
- can't say for sure; maybe
- to propose the future marriage of two unborn babies on condition that one turns out to be a boy, and the other, a girl (idiom)
- womb
- bilateral; both sides; both parties involved
- usually; in many cases; more often than not
- to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon
- major turning point of lifelong import (esp. marriage)
- pleased; happy
- to inform; to notify
- to turn around in one's hands; to play with; to fiddle with
- unconsciously
- bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (CL:張|张[zhang1]); bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc); frame; chassis; classifier for blankets, quilts etc
- to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb
- back door; back gate; (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings; anus; (computing) backdoor
- to traverse
- to clean; to sweep
- clean; neat
- 公差 gōng chāi: 公差 gong1 chai1: official errand; bailiff in a yamen公差 gōng chā: 公差 gong1 cha1: tolerance (allowed error); common difference (of an arithmetic series)
- gargantuan; as big as the sky; enormous
- disaster; doom
- to lead directly to
- to crawl; to climb; to get up or sit up
- vestige; mark; trace
- all the more; even more; further
- with astonishment; with a shock; awe-inspiringly; impressively; furiously (angry)
- tool; device; utensil; equipment; instrument; talent; ability; to possess; to have; to provide; to furnish; to state; classifier for devices, coffins, dead bodies
- to wear (a garment)
- one of (sth); one out of a multitude; one (third, quarter, percent etc)
- a period of time; a while; for a short while; temporary; momentary; at the same time
- to serve; to attend upon
- to return; to go back
- to awaken; to wake sb up; to rouse
- to have second thoughts about sth; to think better of
- demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation; curious coincidence
- (indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened; (indicating that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly; contrarily; against reason; (indicating that sb or a group is singled out) precisely; only; of all people
- to meet by accident
- to summon one's courage
- to moan; to groan