- interior; inside (part, section); internal
- person who sticks to old ways; a diehard; a conservative
- lit. target of a multitude of arrows (idiom); the butt of public criticism; attacked on all sides
- dilemma; quandary; to face a difficult choice
- to choose (literary)
- October; tenth month (of the lunar year)
- to give an order; to issue an order
- forty-third year C7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1966 or 2026
- unified examination
- 岁 sùi: 岁 sui4: years old岁 sùi: 岁 sui4: classifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests)
- to take an exam; exam; CL:次[ci4]
- same; identical; uniformly; all; without exception
- to stop; to halt; to cease
- very long; endless
- to continue; to persist; to last; sustainable; preservation
- slow; unhurried; sluggish
- undoubtedly; without doubt; for sure
- politics; political
- great; important; major; significant
- to push the wave and add to the billows (idiom); to add momentum; to encourage sth to get bigger; to add fuel to the fire
- New York Times (newspaper)
- reporter; journalist; CL:個|个[ge4]
- Thomas (male name)
- 米 mǐ: 米 mi3: uncooked rice; meter (unit of length); (slang) Chinese yuan米 Mǐ: 米 Mi3: surname Mi
- rad (unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation) (loanword)
- current situation
- to have expectations; to earnestly hope; expectation; hope
- Great Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- (formal) to apply; to carry out; to take action to (do sth) (used before a disyllabic verb, indicating that the action is directed at sth previously mentioned, e.g. 加以說明|加以说明[jia1 yi3 shuo1 ming2]); to apply (restrictions etc); to give (support, consideration etc); (literary) moreover; in addition
- nevertheless; actually; the fact is ...
- 起来 qǐ lai: 起来 qi3 lai5: to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qi3lai2]起来 qi lai: 起来 qi5 lai5: (after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state; indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]); indicating completion; (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment; also pr. [qi3lai5]
- easy; straightforward; likely; liable to; apt to
- 难 nán: 难 nan2: difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good难 nàn: 难 nan4: disaster; distress; to scold
- 它 tā: 它 ta1: it它 tā: 它 ta1: it (pronoun for an animal)
- to involve; to drag in
- to overthrow
- to be in effect; in force; current
- system; organization
- some; certain (things)
- to exist; to be; existence
- twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky; knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties
- closely; tightly
- to interweave