- idle; lazy
- (idiom) to act on one's own; to decide for oneself
- high-pitched and penetrating (musical instrument, voice etc); high-spirited; fever-pitched (atmosphere)
- gongs and drums; Chinese percussion instruments
- dauntless; to summon up courage and determination; using extreme force of will
- to avoid (esp. responsibility); to shift (the blame); to pass the buck
- script; screenplay; scenario; libretto
- hot potato; problem; trouble; headache
- 啦 la: 啦 la5: sentence-final particle, contraction of 了啊, indicating exclamation; particle placed after each item in a list of examples啦 lā: 啦 la1: (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat
- to be related; to entail; to involve; joint (liability etc)
- to cross; to intersect; to overlap
- military strategy
- signboard; plaque; plate; tablet (CL:塊|块[kuai4]); brand; trademark; mahjong tile; domino; playing card (CL:張|张[zhang1]); (bound form) fixed pattern for lyrics or set melody in classical poetry or music (used in 詞牌|词牌[ci2 pai2] and 曲牌[qu3 pai2])
- academism (art)
- not knowing which course to follow (idiom); at a loss what to do
- underlayer; lower class; lower strata; substrate
- to lodge a complaint
- cavalier; offhand; reckless
- groundless; baseless
- phenomenon; CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]; appearance
- to neglect one's duty; dereliction of duty; malpractice
- alarm bell
- happy and excited (idiom); in high spirits; in great delight
- to penalize; to punish
- to report (malefactors to the police); to denounce
- (idiom) to escape unscathed; to get through in one piece
- (of a person) to return to the fray after a period of inactivity; to jump back into the thick of things; (of sth that was once popular) to be resurrected; to make a comeback
- sternly; strictly; harshly; stringently; rigorously
- to shrink back; to cower
- conflict of interest
- greatly disappointed
- hotbed; breeding ground; fig. breeding ground for crimes or sedition
- between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning; connotations
- forehead; horizontal tablet or inscribed board; specified number or amount
- old-fashioned; out of date; to be later than the time stipulated or agreed upon