- potential
- anxiety; distress
- (government) cabinet
- trite; clichéd; empty and trite; banality; platitude
- officialdom; bureaucracy
- in the dark; in secret; on the sly; surreptitiously
- cynicism
- secret; hidden
- to kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson
- shameless
- swindle; abduct
- cold-hearted; unfeeling; callous
- flattering and fawning (idiom); sweet-talking
- breaking faith and abandoning right (idiom); to betray; treachery; perfidy
- to frame sb; to cook up imaginary charges against sb
- to kill to the last one (idiom); to exterminate; to eradicate; ruthless
- ugly; repulsive
- (political) left; left wing; leftist
- group of people; camp; faction; sides in a dispute
- (political) right; right wing; rightist
- the outside world; external
- corruption; to corrupt; to rot; rotten
- disciple; follower
- to be present
- high official
- as if relieved from a burden (idiom); to have a weight off one's mind
- so pleased as to lose one's sense of measure; beside oneself with joy
- tranquilizer; sth that sets one's mind at ease
- ruler; those in power; the authorities
- the present time; (old) (in reference to the reigning monarch) His Majesty
- trickery; tactics
- strength
- to fight; fight; war; battle
- 屈 Qū: 屈 Qu1: surname Qu屈 qū: 屈 qu1: bent; to feel wronged
- qualifications; seniority
- to tussle; to contend; to contest
- (used to describe sb or sth that makes a very strong impression, whether favorable or unfavorable) terrible; intense; severe; devastating; amazing; awesome; outstanding; (of a person) stern; strict; harsh; shrewd; tough; (of an animal) fierce; (of a resemblance) striking; (of liquor or chili pepper) strong; (of bacteria) virulent
- seasoned; experienced
- art of politics; political tricks (often derog.); power play; to play at politics; underhand trickery
- attack (esp. surprise attack); raid; to attack
- head of a (government etc) department; section chief; section head; secretary; minister; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- intestines
- 肚 dǔ: 肚 du3: tripe肚 dù: 肚 du4: belly
- casualty; victim (of an accident); wounded person