- career; life (way in which sb lives); period of one's life
- lit. their number cannot be counted (idiom); fig. countless; innumerable
- barrier; obstruction; hindrance; impediment; obstacle
- difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation
- setback; reverse; check; defeat; frustration; disappointment; to frustrate; to discourage; to set sb back; to blunt; to subdue
- to make better; to improve
- 非 Fēi: 非 Fei1: abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa非 fēi: 非 fei1: to not be; not; wrong; incorrect; non-; un-; in-; de-; to reproach; to blame; (coll.) to insist on; simply must
- all one's life; throughout one's life
- to have no regrets
- to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative
- to neglect; to overlook; to disregard; to ignore
- 将 jiāng: 将 jiang1: will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])将 qiāng: 将 qiang1: to desire; to invite; to request将 jiàng: 将 jiang4: (bound form) a general; (literary) to command; to lead; (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
- more (than sth else); even more
- barren; infertile; poor
- to escape; to evade; to avoid; to shirk
- to change; to alter; to transform
- maybe; perhaps; might; possibly; or
- constant; unvarying; (math.) invariant
- to put out; to issue
- virtue; morality; ethics; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- but; however
- pertaining to; concerning; with regard to; about; a matter of
- some kind (of)
- model (example worthy of being imitated); template
- hard to avoid; difficult to escape from; will inevitably
- different; distinct; not the same; not alike
- oneself; (attributive) one's own
- to imagine; to envision; imagination
- 成 chéng: 成 cheng2: to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth成 Chéng: 成 Cheng2: surname Cheng; short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]
- saint
- action; conduct; behavior; activity
- to idealize
- although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是[ke3 shi4] or 但是[dan4 shi4] etc)
- really isn't
- deliberately; on purpose
- usually; in many cases; more often than not
- to be obsessive; to persist obstinately
- cognition; cognitive; understanding; perception; awareness; to be cognizant of; to recognize; to realize
- the truth about sth; the actual facts
- down to; up to; to the extent that...
- surrounding; nearby
- even; so much so that
- (of people or relationships) close; intimate; to draw close to; to engage with; to become familiar with (nature, places, ideas, art etc)
- goodwill; benevolence; kindness
- an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved (idiom)
- to comment on; to discuss; comment; commentary; CL:篇[pian1]
- (idiom) to turn a blind eye to; to ignore