- to throw the dice
- tie; link; bond
- one's mind
- to inhibit; to keep down; to suppress
- to resist; to make a stand and fight (against)
- to blame; to reprove; to reprimand; to expel; to oust; to reconnoiter; (of territory) to expand; saline marsh
- naive; innocent; artless
- to play tricks on; to make fun of; to tease
- monkey; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- to be transformed; to metamorphose; transformation; metamorphosis
- to live without dignity; to barely sustain oneself
- lit. to submit to having one's hands tied and being taken prisoner (idiom); fig. to surrender without a fight
- pistol; CL:把[ba3]
- to run into; to come upon; to meet
- attempting nothing and accomplishing nothing (idiom); without any initiative or drive; feckless
- to taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once
- to force; to compel; to coerce
- not count as
- nameless; obscure
- to merge together (idiom); to unify disparate elements into one whole
- to flash
- one's conduct and deeds
- (idiom) to complement one another
- to rebuild; to reconstruct; to reestablish
- to be alarmed; to be frightened
- to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely
- to dissolve; to disband
- judicial; (administration of) justice
- heavy curtain
- to do something at one go; to flow smoothly
- synopsis; outline; program; leading principles
- to lay a foundation (also fig.); to make a first sketch; to eat sth before drinking; to apply an undercoat
- branch line; side road; spur; fig. secondary plot (in a story)
- to proceed in parallel; side by side (of two processes, developments, thoughts etc)
- mutually related; interconnected
- Abe (short form for Abraham); Abel, a figure of Jewish, Christian and Muslim mythologies
- should; ought to
- story line; plot; drama (genre)
- spouse (PRC); lover (non-PRC); CL:個|个[ge4]
- brief (statement, summary etc); briefly; brevity
- clause
- to snatch away