new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date
to change; to alter; to transform; to reform; to revise; to amend
hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit
to mend; to patch up; to fix (hair, clothes, appearance, etc.); to adjust; to keep up appearances; to cover up (e.g. a mistake)
to continue; to keep up; to keep on
appearance; (outward) looks; exterior appearance
honourable poverty; honorable poverty
to go through; to pierce; to run through (e.g. a river through a city); to pass through; to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out
virtue; benevolence; profit; benefit
fame; reputation; popularity; rumour (rumor); talk
bad influence; negative influence
to be oversized (overloud, etc.)
disliked; hated; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination
Xianbei (ancient nomadic tribe of northern Asia)
Wuhuan (proto-Mongolic nomadic people)
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
one's wife and mistress(es)
far away; far off; nowhere near; far cry
beautiful; pretty; lovely; sweet; pure (heart, friendship, etc.)
to decorate gaudily; to overdecorate; to deck out; to embellish
to put on clothes; to wear clothes; to be the personification of
gorgeous; gaudy; dazzling; gay; resplendent
tool; means; ingredients (added to soup, rice, etc.); counter for sets of armor, utensils, furniture, etc.
whole (body); full-length (e.g. portrait); systemic
luxury; extravagance; to live in luxury; to indulge oneself; lavish (use of something); abundant
(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances
seeming; pose; show; pretense; sham; mock
to doubt; to distrust; to be suspicious of; to suspect
to be (in contrast to something that is not the case)
at any rate; in any event; either way; anyway
isolation; being alone; being friendless
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
suspicion (of others); jealousy
to hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
the north; northward; northern direction; northern part (e.g. of a country); northern district
state of things; state of affairs; condition; situation; circumstances
to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)