- chief of staff
- to go up
- a diplomatic note; letter of understanding or concern exchanged between governments
- explanation; to explain; to interpret; to resolve; CL:個|个[ge4]
- situation; existing state of affairs
- document; file; CL:份[fen4]
- 卡 qiǎ: 卡 qia3: to block; to be stuck; to be wedged; customs station; a clip; a fastener; a checkpost; Taiwan pr. [ka3]卡 kǎ: 卡 ka3: to stop; to block; (computing) (coll.) slow; (loanword) card; CL:張|张[zhang1],片[pian4]; truck (from "car"); calorie (abbr. for 卡路里[ka3 lu4 li3]); cassette
- to record; record (written account); note-taker; record (in sports etc); CL:個|个[ge4]
- point of view; viewpoint; standpoint; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
- true; real
- to transmit to lower levels; to issue (a command, decree etc)
- beforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now; (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
- to bear; to support; to inherit
- not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient; less than
- only when absolutely essential (idiom); as a last resort
- to judge; to determine; judgment
- rather than... (used in expressions of the form 與其|与其[yu3 qi2] + {verb1} + 不如[bu4 ru2] + {verb2} "rather than {verb1}, better to {verb2}")
- not equal to; not as good as; inferior to; it would be better to
- to signify; to mean; to imply
- extant; existent; in stock
- order; orderliness (in society, in the classroom, on the roads etc)
- end; conclusion; to come to an end; to terminate (sth)
- sign; mark; symbol; logo; to symbolize; to indicate; to mark
- huge; immense; enormous; gigantic
- bad luck; misfortune; adversity
- in short; in a word; in brief
- bad; spoiled; broken; to break down; (suffix) to the utmost
- to strive one's hardest; to spare no effort
- unfavorable; disadvantageous; harmful; detrimental
- wholeheartedly; (to devote oneself) heart and soul
- to throw into; to put into; to throw oneself into; to participate in; to invest in; absorbed; engrossed
- lit. to return to office after living as a hermit on Mount Dongshan (idiom); fig. to make a comeback
- to take back (forcibly); to recapture; to win back
- irrational; unreasonable
- to snatch away
- wise; brilliant
- (literary) to give; to accord; to render
- useful; beneficial; profitable
- long-time; long-term; lasting; enduring; permanent; for a long time
- now; the present time; current; contemporary; this (day, year etc)
- today
- necessary; must have
- one day; sometime in the future
- right (i.e. an entitlement to sth); (classical) power and wealth
- secret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret
- just; fair; equitable