to tie; to fasten; to hitch; to secure (trust, patronage of customers, etc.); to keep (an employee, someone's interest, etc.); to save (someone's life)
fall; tumble; spill; degradation; comedown; demotion
suddenly; in a flash; rapidly; attractive; distinguished; showy
to be ruined; to go under; to perish; to be destroyed
narrow; small; confined; narrow-minded; intolerant
conversion; diversion; changeover; commutation; switchover
opportunity; chance; good time (to do); trend; tendency; momentum
abstract or impracticable theory
to push aside; to overcome (e.g. difficulties); to align; to put in order; (arch.) to push open
not asking (about); letting go unquestioned; disregarding; ignoring; overlooking
the same rank; equality; apposition
to open (e.g. path); to clear (the way); to break up (e.g. land)
home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
great scholar; profound scholar
dictation; verbal statement
serialization; serialisation; serial story
cloth; bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
(arch.) three-legged metal pot or kettle (used in ancient China)
old family; old-established family; one's old home; one's childhood home
collection of books; (personal) library
storehouse with thick (earthen) walls; godown
three (long cylindrical things); three-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand)
hokora; small wayside shrine
what did you just say (to me)?; what's that?
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship
childlike mind; judgment as a child (judgement)
to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision
agalmatolite; pagodite; figure stone
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet
with a whiff; with a puff; suddenly; abruptly; without warning
off the top of one's head; from thin air; from memory
deep blue; bright blue; ghastly pale; pallid; white as a sheet
dozens; scores of; decades