- a period of time in the recent past; (indicating a period of time up to the present) all along; the whole time
- to advocate; to stand for; view; position; stand; proposition; viewpoint; assertion; CL:個|个[ge4]
- merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however
- cause; reason; because
- servant; to employ sb for a job; to manage people; to be in need of staff
- (bound form) (of women) gentle; kind; lovely; admirable; (used in given names); Taiwan pr. [shu2]
- ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only; (emphatic, esp. in contrast or correction) really; actually
- ending up as; leading to; resulting in; in total
- like this; so; such
- aspect; phase; situation
- at last; in the end; finally; eventually
- to admit; to concede; to recognize; recognition (diplomatic, artistic etc); to acknowledge
- mistaken; false; wrong; error; mistake; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to believe; to think; to consider; to feel
- still (as before); had better; unexpectedly; or
- can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good
- influence; effect; to influence; to affect (usually adversely); to disturb; CL:股[gu3]
- thereupon; as a result; consequently; thus; hence
- to raise (an issue); to propose; to put forward; to suggest; to post (on a website); to withdraw (cash)
- to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])
- to satisfy; to meet (the needs of); satisfied; content
- to request; to require; requirement; to stake a claim; to ask; to demand; CL:點|点[dian3]
- talent; ability; capacity
- to let off; to let slip by; to let sb get away with sth
- to pass; to go through; process; course; CL:個|个[ge4]
- just now; a moment ago
- no more; no longer
- incoherent speech; to talk without rhyme or reason (idiom)
- to pretend; to feign
- calm; unperturbed; cool
- 地 dì: 地 di4: earth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]地 de: 地 de5: -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- attentive; careful
- to speak; to explain; to negotiate; to emphasize; to be particular about; as far as sth is concerned; speech; lecture
- to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
- this matter
- to consult; to talk over; to discuss
- margin; leeway
- 出来 chu lai: 出来 chu5 lai5: (after a verb, indicates coming out, completion of an action, or ability to discern or detect)出来 chū lái: 出来 chu1 lai2: to come out; to appear; to arise
- first of all; in the first place
- not to allow; must not; can't
- common people
- to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force
- to lighten; to ease; to alleviate
- taxation; in former times, esp. land tax
- next; secondly
- 要 yāo: 要 yao1: (bound form) to demand; to coerce要 yào: 要 yao4: to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) important
- to appoint; (job) appointment; CL:紙|纸[zhi3]