- to hinder; to obstruct
- agriculture; farming
- to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child
- to encourage; to foster; to foment
- confused; chaotic; disorderly
- to accumulate; accumulation; cumulative; cumulatively
- luxurious; extravagant
- to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])
- indignant; furious
- ignorant; uneducated; ignorance
- pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on
- before; formerly; previous; ago
- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]
- to pray; prayer
- sacrifice for avoiding calamity
- 解 jiě: 解 jie3: to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection解 jiè: 解 jie4: to transport under guard解 xiè: 解 xie4: acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old)解 Xiè: 解 Xie4: surname Xie
- decreed by fate (idiom); destined; fated
- action; conduct; behavior; activity
- to decide; to determine; to make up one's mind; decision (CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4])
- ordinary people; the "person in the street"; CL:個|个[ge4]
- error; mistaken idea; falsehood
- to exert a gradual influence; to nurture; a corrupting influence
- don't tell me ...; could it be that...?
- happy; joyful
- 吗 má: 吗 ma2: (coll.) what?吗 mǎ: 吗 ma3: used in 嗎啡|吗啡[ma3 fei1]吗 ma: 吗 ma5: (question particle for "yes-no" questions)
- 没 mò: 没 mo4: drowned; to end; to die; to inundate没 méi: 没 mei2: (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not
- to issue; to proclaim; to enact (laws, decrees etc)
- prohibition; ban
- to restrict; to limit to; to constrain; restriction; constraint
- bureaucrat; official
- 向 Xiàng: 向 Xiang4: surname Xiang向 xiàng: 向 xiang4: towards; to face; to turn towards; direction; to support; to side with; shortly before; formerly; always; all along; (suffix) suitable for ...; oriented to ...向 xiàng: 向 xiang4: to tend toward; to guide向 xiàng: 向 xiang4: direction; orientation; to face; to turn toward; to; towards; shortly before; formerly
- they; them
- to state; to assert
- there still remain(s); there is (or are) still; in addition
- to violate (a law)
- in custody; to keep sb in detention
- if; in case; in the event that
- in private
- to continue; to proceed with; to go on with
- to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)
- culprit
- to be in (some state, position, or condition)
- (bound form) to regret; to repent
- there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late
- very; really; unusual; extraordinary
- to respect deeply; to revere; to esteem
- (literary) hard; firm; strong; exactly; precisely; barely; only just; just; only a short while ago