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看热闹 | 看熱鬧
- 1 to enjoy watching a bustling scene
- 2 to go where the crowds are
泅水
- 1 to swim
半梦半醒 | 半夢半醒
- 1 half-awake
- 2 half-asleep
介之推
- 1 Jie Zhitui (7th century BC), legendary selfless subject of Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公|晋文公, in whose honor the Qingming festival 清明 (Pure brightness or tomb-sweeping festival) is said to have been initiated
中等专业学校 | 中等專業學校
- 1 specialized middle school
颠颠 | 顛顛
- 1 glad and diligent
新五代史
- 1 Later History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), nineteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Èr shí sì Shǐ], compiled under Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ōu yáng Xiū] in 1053 during Northern Song Dynasty, 74 scrolls
附庸
- 1 vassal
- 2 dependent
- 3 subordinate
- 4 subservient
- 5 appendage
帕累托
- 1 Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), Italian economist
果皮
- 1 (fruit) peel
王光良
- 1 Michael Wong (1970-), Malaysian Chinese singer and composer
受聘
- 1 hired (for employment)
- 2 invited (e.g. to lecture)
- 3 engaged (for a task)
- 4 (in olden times) betrothal gift from the groom's family
步辇 | 步輦
- 1 (literary) palanquin
- 2 sedan chair
- 3 to ride in a palanquin
威奇托
- 1 Wichita (city in Kansas)
常衡制
- 1 Avoirdupois Weight, a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains)
有水
- 1 supplied with water (of a house)
讨取 | 討取
- 1 to ask for
- 2 to demand
蜗牛 | 蝸牛
- 1 snail
- 2 Taiwan pr. [gua1 niu2]
庄 | 莊
- 1 farmstead
- 2 village
- 3 manor
- 4 place of business
- 5 banker (in a gambling game)
- 6 grave or solemn
- 7 holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)
污名
- 1 bad reputation
- 2 stigma