- to treat unjustly; an injustice
- hesitation; misgivings; doubt
- branch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc
- official; scholar (old)
- to cover; to shield; to screen; to conceal
- turbid flow; muddy waters; fig. a contemptible person; fig. corrupt or disgraceful social trends
- 清流 Qīng líu: 清流 Qing1 liu2: see 清流縣|清流县[Qing1 liu2 Xian4]清流 qīng líu: 清流 qing1 liu2: clean flowing water; (fig.) (literary) honorable person, untainted by association with disreputable influences; scholars who (in former times) kept themselves aloof from the corrupting influence of those in power
- to fart; to break wind; to talk nonsense; Utter rubbish!
- bowed head and ears glued (idiom); docile and obedient; at sb's beck and call
- slave; fig. flunkey
- proprietor; owner
- in unbearable anguish; agonizing
- identical; same
- to liken to; to compare to
- to unite
- lit. to have no strategy to apply (idiom); fig. to be out of ideas; at one's wit's end
- annal; historical record; CL:筆|笔[bi3]
- sensible; wise; judicious; sagacious
- to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差[chu1 chai1]); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家[chu1 jia1])
- mission; long-term task to which one devotes oneself; a calling
- surpassing; excelling; preeminent; unique
- (of systems, facilities etc) comprehensive; well-developed; excellent; to refine; to improve
- robust; sound
- grasp it and victory is assured; to have success within one's grasp (idiom)
- fabricated
- to pull a long face; to wear a mournful expression
- generation; period of 30 years; one's whole lifetime; lifelong; age; era; times; the whole world; the First (of numbered European kings)
- tolerance
- to be treasured; praiseworthy
- to look upon; to regard
- good or bad; good and bad; standard; quality; (coll.) very bad
- to look into (a matter)
- special; specific; designated; particular
- ignorant and backward
- shallow opinion; humble opinion
- amidst the clouds and mist; (fig.) mystified; puzzled
- omniscient
- erudition; scholarly knowledge
- intentionally; deliberately; purposely; painstakingly; meticulously