Vocabulary

self-support

desperation; despair; self-abandonment

rudeness; impoliteness; disrespect; impertinence

pitch-black; jet-black

gale; strong wind; swift wind; fresh breeze (Beaufort scale)

letter of credit

sleeping face

spirit (e.g. human spirit); soul

profound; deep; unfathomable; esoteric

abyss; ravine

posture; attitude

to step forward; to volunteer

shyness; fear of strangers; stranger anxiety

jinku; lively Japanese folk song or dance tune

daffodil (esp. Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis); narcissus

The Water Margin (classic of Chinese literature); Outlaws of the Marsh; All Men are Brothers

attaining enlightenment; becoming a Buddha; entering Nirvana

legal wife (of a noble) (as opposed to a concubine)

complete cure; radical cure; complete recovery

stronghold; citadel

deep blue; azure

demotion; relegation; reduction in rank; degradation; downward move

to insert; to put in; to thrust in; to plug in

inquiry; enquiry; hearing

sandstone

defrauding; swindle

having a wife; marrying (a woman); marriage

to deify; to enshrine

to arrive; to come to pass

last night

becoming complicated; becoming involved; being intricate; becoming entangled; becoming jumbled; becoming mixed up

threefold; folded in three

leaflet; flyer; handbill

to be scattered about; to disperse; to be littered (with)

to embezzle; to misappropriate; to peculate

patrol

bibliography (list of books by an author or on a subject)

to help each other; to cooperate

heartbreak; grief; sorrow

excerpt; abridgment; abridgement; book of selections