- to exclude; not including sth (when counting or listing); except for
- consistent; constant; from start to finish; all along; persistent
- to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely
- lit. from head to tail (idiom); thoroughgoing; through and through; out and out; from top to bottom
- 节 jiē: 节 jie1: see 節骨眼|节骨眼[jie1 gu5 yan3]节 jié: 节 jie2: joint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar); seasonal festival; (bound form) to economize; to save; (bound form) moral integrity; chastity; classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc; knot (nautical miles per hour)
- misconception; fallacy
- distance; CL:個|个[ge4]; to be apart from
- close range
- clearly; evidently; obviously
- to hold a sinecure (idiom)
- 待 dāi: 待 dai1: to stay; to remain待 dài: 待 dai4: to wait; to treat; to deal with; to need; going to (do sth); about to; intending to
- nothing can surpass
- to lose; to throw away; to discard; to cast away
- rice bowl; fig. livelihood; job; way of making a living
- for example
- to accept a job offer; to apply for an advertised position
- secretary
- 打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")
- immediately; at once; right away
- to lose
- position; post; job
- to reach a set standard
- (of a batter) to be put out (in baseball); to be dismissed (in cricket); (of a player or team) to be eliminated from a competition; (fig.) to be weeded out; to get the chop (in a competitive environment)
- to dismiss an employee; to sack
- to substitute for; to replace; to supersede
- (purchase) order
- unaccomplished; mediocre; feckless
- to get away with it; to slip through; to bluff one's way out; Taiwan pr. [meng1 hun4 guo4 guan1]
- to defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent); to fail; to wither
- elephant; CL:隻|只[zhi1]; shape; form; appearance; to imitate
- repeatedly; over and over; to upend; unstable; to come and go; (of an illness) to return
- vague; unclear; ambiguous
- to resign; to dismiss; to decline; (literary) to take leave; (archaic poetic genre) ballad
- to shirk responsibility; to blame others; to pass the buck
- to carry out one's duties perfunctorily; to fulfill one's responsibility
- beforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now; (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
- to shoot; to launch; to allude to; radio- (chemistry)
- arrow; CL:支[zhi1]
- hasty; hurried
- 落 lùo: 落 luo4: to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out; to lower; to decline or sink; to lag or fall behind; to fall onto; to rest with; to get or receive; to write down; whereabouts; settlement落 là: 落 la4: to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind落 lào: 落 lao4: colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds
- additional; in addition; besides; separate; other; moreover; furthermore
- basic level; grassroots unit; basement layer
- 机制 jī zhì: 机制 ji1 zhi4: mechanism机制 jī zhì: 机制 ji1 zhi4: machine-processed; machine-made
- to guide; to lead