Kamus Bahasa Mandarin

lit. to shake one's body; refers to abrupt transformation; same as 搖身一變|摇身一变

bar (place to buy drinks); CL:家[jia1]

inductance; inductor

Iron Curtain (1945-1991) (In Taiwan, the word was used to refer to both the Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain.)

to skin; to flay; to peel; (fig.) (coll.) to haul (sb) over the coals; also pr. [bo1pi2]

fatalism; fatalistic

constantly in turmoil; crisis after crisis

Yunnan and Tibet

Nirvana (in Buddhist scripture); Lord Brahma (the Hindu Creator)

to scatter; to disperse; to evacuate; scattered; sparse

croquette

rotor sluice gate

see 興仁市|兴仁市[Xing1 ren2 Shi4]

to make tea

Qibin, a district of Hebi City 鶴壁市|鹤壁市[He4 bi4 Shi4], Henan

to seize

extremely daring (idiom); foolhardy

paratyphoid fever

to come together; to assemble

Haydn (name); Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Austrian classical composer

to howl; to bellow; to yell

to pour cold water on; (fig.) to dampen sb's enthusiasm

abbr. for 全國運動會|全国运动会[Quan2 guo2 Yun4 dong4 hui4]

to increase efforts; to make extra efforts