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imported article; imported goods

1

good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response

2

order; sequence; procedure

2

to flatter; to soft-soap; to sweet talk; to cajole; to instigate

1

self-indulgence; looseness; dissolution; licence; license

1

to fall into someone's hands; to place oneself in someone's power

3

to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon)

1

parched; dried-up; empty; hollow; rattling; clattering

1

land; shore

2

to be conspicuous; to attract public attention

1

suitable; proper; appropriate; perfunctory; half-minded; sloppy

1

parental love or affection

1

direct debit; account-to-account transfer

1

adult; grown-up

1

to be added to; to be appended; to join in (e.g. a group of friends); to participate; to increase (e.g. heat); to gain in (e.g. influence)

1

to burn; to roast; to broil; to heat; to heat up; to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake

3

to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size

1

pup; puppy; whelp

1

benefactor; patron

1

Quanzhou (China); Chinchew

2

by and by; before long

1

betrothal; wedding; marriage into a family; adoption

1

above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent

2

merit; virtuous deed; divine reward (for virtuous deeds); grace (of the buddhas and gods); merit; meritum

2

January; first month of the lunar calendar

4

one year; some time ago

1

tranquillity and peace; tranquility and peace; peaceful and uneventful

1

to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)

1

to study (in depth); to learn; to take lessons in

5

telepathy; tacit understanding; thought transference; non-verbal Zen Buddhist transmission to a disciple of the central tenets of Buddhism

1

hard work

1

midwinter; cold season; coldest days of the year

1

to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.); to fill the room (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. voice); to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)

2

intense cold

1

waterfall; cataract; cascade

1

blazing heat; scorching sun

1

to sit; to squat; to be implicated

2

century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time

1

to keep to oneself; to keep secret

1

secretly; in secret; unseen; unobserved; inwardly; in private

1

to set one's mind on doing; to get the idea of doing; to make up one's mind

1

efficacy; benefit; efficiency; effect; result; success

2

eager; earnest; strenuous; fervent; assiduous; with utmost effort

1

physical science; natural science; physics; lixue (Song-era Chinese philosophy); (arch.) philosophy

1

transcendental reason

2

scorn; disdain; contempt; slight

1

to succeed (someone); to take over from; to pick up the torch

1

in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

2

adaptation; accommodation; conforming; acclimatization; acclimatisation

1

to follow another's example

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