- convention (i.e. international agreement)
- protocol; treaty
- amendment; revised draft
- to prohibit; to forbid; to ban
- to deprive; to expropriate; to strip (sb of his property)
- in former times; the olden days
- Roman Empire
- currency; monetary; money
- short story
- 舒 Shū: 舒 Shu1: surname Shu舒 shū: 舒 shu1: to stretch; to unfold; to relax; leisurely
- Barth or Barthes (name); Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French critic and semiotician
- to critique; to voice concerns about; ancient form of acupuncture using sharp stones as needles
- character; script; writing; written language; writing style; phraseology; CL:個|个[ge4]
- repeatedly; time and again
- to go to jail; to be sent to prison
- to overlook; to miss; to omit
- 子 zǐ: 子 zi3: son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-子 zi: 子 zi5: noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
- to revolve around; to center on (an issue)
- empress
- Mary (biblical name)
- bud
- 莎 shā: 莎 sha1: katydid (family Tettigoniidae); phonetic "sha" used in transliteration莎 sūo: 莎 suo1: used in 莎草[suo1 cao3]
- qualifications; seniority
- to inherit; to succeed to (the throne etc); to carry on (a tradition etc)
- to claim; to state; to proclaim; to assert
- Silesia
- to obtain (sth) in exchange; to exchange (sth) for (sth else)
- right of inheritance
- to refuse; to decline; to reject
- to send troops
- to invade and occupy (territory)
- to target; to focus on; to be aimed at or against; in response to
- illness; CL:場|场[chang2]; disease; to fall ill; defect
- to bring relief; to alleviate (a crisis); to dull (a pain)
- symptom (of an illness)
- to rely mainly on; to attach most importance to
- an incompletely cured illness; an old complaint; the root cause of trouble
- related by marriage; to connect by marriage (families, work units)
- throne
- band of mounted bandits in Manchuria (archaic)
- 巴 bā: 巴 ba1: to long for; to wish; to cling to; to stick to; sth that sticks; close to; next to; spread open; informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4]; bar (unit of pressure); nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail巴 Bā: 巴 Ba1: Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan); the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality; surname Ba; (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1 ji1 si1 tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1 xi1] (Brazil)