- to trade; to carry out commercial activities; in business
- to understand; to comprehend
- every time; on each occasion; whenever
- personal integrity
- to grasp (often fig.); to control; to seize (initiative, opportunity, destiny); to master; to know well; to understand sth well and know how to use it; fluency
- machine; machinery; mechanical; (old) cunning; scheming
- for the first time; first (meeting, attempt etc)
- inevitable; certain; necessity
- 逼 bī: 逼 bi1: to compel; to pressure逼 bī: 逼 bi1: to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on
- to lay down; to put down; to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside; to lower (the blinds etc)
- book (chiefly used to refer to a plurality of books or books in general)
- to indulge oneself
- to read; to study
- to raise one's head; to look up; (fig.) to begin to emerge; to show signs of growth; (commerce) account name, or space for writing the name on checks, bills etc
- 嗯 en: 嗯 en5: interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement嗯 ēn: 嗯 en1: (a groaning sound)嗯 èn: 嗯 en4: (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?
- opposite polarities attract; (fig.) opposite sexes attract; opposites attract
- to excel; to surpass
- Zhuge Liang (181–234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4] during the Three Kingdoms period; the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4], where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius; (fig.) a mastermind
- ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc
- just; exactly; to happen to be
- if
- to walk past; to pass by
- same; equal; similar; similarly; also; too
- to die; to pass away
- not long ago; not long before
- Happy birthday
- divergent; difference (of opinion, position); disagreement; (math.) bifurcation
- stick; club; cudgel; smart; capable; strong; wonderful; classifier for legs of a relay race
- to be called; to be known as
- to call; to be called
- one by one; one after another
- to explain; to illustrate; to indicate; to show; to prove; explanation; directions; caption; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to believe firmly; without any doubt
- potential; latent capacity
- partner; associate
- lit. use others' strengths to make up for one's weak points (idiom from Mencius); to use this in place of that; what you lose on the swings, you win on the roundabouts
- each other; mutually; mutual
- to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)