- the wider world; diverse aspects of society
- hard to avoid; difficult to escape from; will inevitably
- to fall; to drop; to land (of projectile)
- tear; teardrop; CL:滴[di1]
- to guide; to lead
- seat of government; government repository (archive); official residence; mansion; presidential palace; (honorific) Your home; prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
- bureaucrat; official
- to kneel
- then; after that; afterwards
- to leave for; to proceed towards; to go to
- temporary imperial residence
- to advance; forward motion
- to retrieve
- (haven't done sth) for a long time; a long time since we last met
- to attach importance to sth; to value
- (idiom) situated high; aloft; (idiom) (fig.) aloof and remote; situated above the masses and out of touch with reality
- to hold or offer with both hands; to sing the praises of; classifier for what can be held in both hands
- feeling; impression; sensation; to feel; to perceive
- to reinstate; to resume; to restore; to recover; to regain; to rehabilitate
- in the past; formerly
- air of arrogance; haughtiness
- 哪里 nǎ lǐ: 哪里 na3 li3: where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪裡|哪里哪里 nǎ lǐ: 哪里 na3 li3: where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment
- 呢 ne: 呢 ne5: (sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?"); (sentence-final particle) indicating that a state or situation still holds; (discourse particle) used to mark a slight pause or emphasis in speech呢 ní: 呢 ni2: dense wool fabric (used for coats and jackets)
- original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out
- since (a time); ever since
- (literary) (of an emperor while traveling) to stop over; to lodge temporarily en route
- since (used after a specified time or event)
- straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through
- affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- to worry; to fret
- because; owing to; on account of
- 省 shěng: 省 sheng3: to save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out; province; provincial capital; a ministry (of the Japanese government)省 xǐng: 省 xing3: (bound form) to scrutinize; (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct); (bound form) to come to realize; (bound form) to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders)
- inside; interior; also pr. [li3 mian5]
- public finance; government finance
- in short supply; dire; tense; critical; hard-pressed; important
- plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that
- there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late
- to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to
- to decide; to determine; to make up one's mind; decision (CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4])
- yamen, government office in dynastic China
- governor-general; viceroy; governor
- whole; all
- one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be
- but; however
- to construct; to build