- (of a turn of events) not too encouraging; far from good; anything but reassuring
- to support; to brace
- sb or sth detested by all; target of scorn; anathema; cf. 老鼠過街，人人喊打|老鼠过街，人人喊打[lao3 shu3 guo4 jie1 , ren2 ren2 han3 da3]
- fixed assets
- courtyard; compound
- to look after
- president of a club, committee etc
- grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document); careless; rough; CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]
- fox; (fig.) sly or crafty person
- rat; mouse (CL:隻|只[zhi1])
- lair; nest; den; hideout
- 黑 Hēi: 黑 Hei1: short name for Heilongjiang 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]黑 hēi: 黑 hei1: black; dark; sinister; secret; shady; illegal; to hide (sth) away; to vilify; (loanword) to hack (computing)
- (bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor
- north and south sides of the Yangtze River (idiom); (fig.) all over China
- intuition
- justly; impartially
- stage; degree (to which a situation has evolved); a (usu. bad) situation; leeway
- to feel sb's pulse
- excessive; undue; unduly; overly
- microphone; (telephone) receiver; handset; megaphone; (fig.) mouthpiece; spokesperson
- errant
- to attempt; to try; attempt; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- apathetic; indifferent; unsympathetic
- cannot help; unable to bear
- the end; an ending; to wind down; to conclude
- to gossip and meddle; to shoot one's mouth off; talkative
- lit. whoever hung the bell on the tiger's neck must untie it (idiom); fig. whoever started the trouble should end it
- hey
- subtle; shrewd; sophisticated
- treatment; pay; salary; status; rank
- layman
- to feel embarrassed or awkward; to make things difficult (for someone); to find things difficult (to do or manage)
- to ease (tension); to alleviate; to moderate; to allay; to make more mild
- half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
- (idiom) vicious; merciless