- thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive; once you've seen one, you've seen them all
- monotonous
- tedious
- juncture; moment
- belief; to believe (in sth)
- to prevail over; to defeat; to surmount
- matter; substance; material; materialistic; CL:個|个[ge4]
- Mao Zedong Thought
- Marxism-Leninism
- economic crisis
- divine; hallow; holy; sacred
- big brother
- to become enemies; to become hostile towards each other
- to increase; to grow in number
- to be a little bit careless; to have a moment of inattentiveness; accidentally
- revisionism
- photo studio
- lit. (like) ten thousand horses galloping (idiom); fig. going full steam ahead
- to burn; to ignite; to light; fig. to spark off (hopes); to start (debate); to raise (hopes)
- sunset, the end of the road (idiom); in terminal decline; at a dead end
- to fight; to engage in combat; struggle; battle; CL:場|场[chang2],次[ci4]
- (idiom) to do whatever one pleases
- lit. the rise and fall of the terrain (idiom); fig. the whole sequence of events; causes and effects
- artillery shell; CL:枚[mei2]
- common ground
- to tame; tame; docile
- to keep quiet out of fear (idiom)
- self-respect; self-esteem; ego; pride
- stinking intellectual (contemptuous term for educated people during the Cultural Revolution)
- cowardly; weak
- to tuck one's tail between one's legs; fig. to back down; in a humiliating situation
- just; fair; equitable
- to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander
- not know where to start
- 较差 jiào chà: 较差 jiao4 cha4: mediocre; rather poor; not specially good较差 jiào chā: 较差 jiao4 cha1: range (the difference between the lowest and highest values)