- straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns
- colony
- resident; inhabitant
- would rather ... (than ...)
- to build; to construct; to establish; to develop; to institute
- organic
- life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:條|条[tiao2])
- to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave; CL:個|个[ge4]
- wall
- everyone; owner
- outward appearance; superficial; (philosophy, psychology) representation; idea; (math.) representation
- (mild insult) fool; idiot; (playful) silly person
- (idiom) crazy; bizarre; weird; fantastic; strange
- 蠢 chǔn: 蠢 chun3: stupid蠢 chǔn: 蠢 chun3: stupid; sluggish; clumsy; to wiggle (of worms); to move in a disorderly fashion
- easy; with no difficulty
- rule; regulation; regular; orderly; fixed
- which ones?; who?; what?
- (idiom) not knowing anything at all; completely ignorant
- well; carefully; nicely; properly
- to remember; to bear in mind; to learn by heart
- shoe; to tread on
- 怕 Pà: 怕 Pa4: surname Pa怕 pà: 怕 pa4: to be afraid; to fear; to dread; to be unable to endure; perhaps
- to poke; to jab; to give (sb) a nudge; to prod; to disclose; to reveal
- trouble; blunder
- strategic decision; decision-making; policy decision; to determine policy
- to help; to assist; to support; for sb (i.e. as a help); hired (as worker); side (of pail, boat etc); outer layer; upper (of a shoe); group; gang; clique; party; secret society
- head; chief
- personally; in person; oneself
- to supervise; to oversee; to inspect
- to implement; to carry out
- see 防患未然[fang2 huan4 wei4 ran2]
- to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start; to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run; to boil; to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc); (directional complement) away; off; carat (gold); abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2]; abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format
- green light (traffic signal); (fig.) permission to proceed
- to sigh; to exclaim
- one breath; in one breath; at a stretch
- 倒 dào: 倒 dao4: to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet倒 dǎo: 倒 dao3: to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit
- to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association
- recognition; to recognize
- urgent and important moment (idiom); critical juncture