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1 to enjoy watching a bustling scene

2 to go where the crowds are

1 to swim

1 half-awake

2 half-asleep

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

1 specialized middle school

1 glad and diligent

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

1 vassal

2 dependent

3 subordinate

4 subservient

5 appendage

1 Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), Italian economist

1 (fruit) peel

1 Michael Wong (1970-), Malaysian Chinese singer and composer

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

1 (literary) palanquin

2 sedan chair

3 to ride in a palanquin

1 Wichita (city in Kansas)

1 Avoirdupois Weight, a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains)

1 supplied with water (of a house)

1 to ask for

2 to demand

1 snail

2 Taiwan pr. [gua1 niu2]

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)

1 bad reputation

2 stigma