- ordinarily; in normal times; in peacetime
- to impede; to hold sb back
- lawless; illegal; unlawful
- one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
- to push aside; to part; to brush away
- clouds and mist
- awful; dreadful; fearful; formidable; frightful; scary; hideous; horrible; terrible; terribly
- shameful; disgraceful; ignominious
- to harm; to jeopardize; to endanger; harmful effect; damage
- (idiom) corruption
- (bound form) to penetrate; to seep through; to tell secretly; to leak; thoroughly; through and through; to appear; to show
- to rot; to decay; to become corrupt
- robust; sound
- (lit. and fig.) to pollute; to contaminate
- (literary) (of a liquid or vapor etc) to permeate; to saturate; to suffuse; (literary) (fig.) to be steeped; to be immersed (in an environment, field of study, emotion etc)
- to degenerate; to deteriorate; (of food) to go bad; to go off; (geology) metamorphism
- can't stand it; to be unable to bear; to be unable to resist
- to obscure; to confuse; to mix up; to blur; to mislead
- (idiom) to do whatever one pleases
- cause of disease
- to put the blame on; to accuse
- taxpayer
- to apologize; to regret; deficient
- etiquette; ceremonial protocol
- light industry
- exchange rate
- American dollar; US dollar
- currency; monetary; money
- purchasing power
- section; paragraph; funds; CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4]; classifier for versions or models (of a product)
- to begin; to set in motion
- to cover
- to shift; to move
- in arrears; behind in payments; to default on one's debts
- cost; expenditure; expense; CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4]
- almost; nearly; practically
- opening providing access; the teaching of Confucius
- amount; sum of money; fixed number
- in deep water; difficult situation
- together
- good luck