- reward and punishment
- married woman
- swamp
- countryside; rural area; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to play (as children do); to amuse oneself
- to realize; to be aware of; to feel that; to be conscious of (sth relating to oneself); responsible; predisposed to do the right thing; considerate of others
- to go boating
- (idiom) pigheaded
- enthusiastic; ardent; zealous
- to show clearly; to designate; to indicate
- obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom); willful; one's own way; dogmatic
- opposite; antonym; the opposite side (in a conflict)
- to threaten; to menace
- battered and exhausted; stuck in a dilemma
- to gasp for breath; to take a breather
- to meet; to rendezvous; to merge; to link up; meeting; confluence
- first half of one's life
- lit. the Big Dipper 北斗星[Bei3 dou3 xing1] has turned and the stars have moved; time flies; also written 星移斗轉|星移斗转[xing1 yi2 Dou3 zhuan3]
- dramatic
- to fall ill and die; to die of illness
- epitaph
- to conspire with sb; to plot; a conspirator; a partner in crime; an accomplice
- to enjoin; to grant (a title)
- to extract; to excerpt; an excerpt
- Grand Scribe, the title by which Sima Qian 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1] refers to himself in Records of the Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4]
- you (in a formal letter)
- to lean on; to rely upon
- 注 zhù: 注 zhu4: (bound form) to pour into; to flow into; to inject; (bound form) to focus (one's spirit, gaze etc) on a single point; to concentrate; (bound form) stake (in gambling); classifier for stakes, sums of money, transactions or beams of light注 zhù: 注 zhu4: to annotate; to provide explanatory notes on a written text; an annotation; an explanatory note; (bound form) to put on record; to register
- grand scribe (official position in many Chinese states up to the Han)
- resources; capital; to provide; to supply; to support; money; expense
- honest; upright
- to comment; to talk about; to discuss; discussion; CL:個|个[ge4]
- unit of area equal to 100 畝|亩[mu3] or 6.67 hectares; a short while; a little while ago; circa. (for approximate dates)
- bustling; to create trouble; to disturb
- to control; to accuse; to charge; to sue; to invert a container to empty it; (suffix) (slang) buff; enthusiast; devotee; -phile or -philia
- to drive; to manage; to control
- 予 yú: 予 yu2: (archaic) I; me予 yǔ: 予 yu3: (literary) to give
- long-term strategy