- lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis
- endless; inexhaustible
- to be worried; to be distressed; worries
- syndrome
- strenuously; persistently; hard; painful
- (idiom) over the years; year after year
- balance; equilibrium
- (political) analyst
- disease; illness
- to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune; trouble; danger; worry
- an incompletely cured illness; an old complaint; the root cause of trouble
- It is hard to change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are.; Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23)
- to treat (an illness); medical treatment
- to repay; to reimburse
- to entrust to
- to pay in installments; payment in installments
- not in the least concerned (idiom); reckless; couldn't give a damn about it; unperturbed; couldn't care less; harum scarum
- to housekeep; to run one's household
- to decline (an appointment, invitation etc)
- to utilize; to put sth to use
- to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc)
- to control; to dominate; to allocate
- in hand; (a situation is) in sb's hands
- bill
- to work; to operate; to revolve; to turn around
- to fill or stuff; (of a form etc) to fill in
- to owe a debt; the sum owed
- lit. eating away next year's food in advance; fig. to dip into the next month's check; live now, pay later
- to have all to oneself; to monopolize
- responsible and diligent (idiom)
- to see, hear and obey (idiom); to take advice; to take sb at his word
- to share (a burden, a cost, a responsibility)
- 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
- to drain (by leading off water); to unburden oneself; to divulge; to leak a secret
- to rebel; to revolt; a rebel