- to narrate; to recount; narrative
- local
- difficult; hard; hardship
- to hate; to regret
- depressed; resentful; discontented; indignant; perturbed
- innate sense of right and wrong; conscience; bosom friend
- to some extent; more or less
- 吐 tǔ: 吐 tu3: to spit; to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc); to say; to pour out (one's grievances)吐 tù: 吐 tu4: to vomit; to throw up
- to be out of (political) office; to be out of power
- League of Nations (1920-1946), based in Geneva, precursor of the UN
- wasted effort
- mood; state of mind; moodiness; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- to sink into despondency; (of morale, willpower etc) to diminish; to plummet
- all day long
- to go abroad; to leave the country
- 打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]
- to deceive others and to deceive oneself; to believe one's own lies
- to continue; to follow after; to go on with; to succeed; to inherit; then; afterwards
- to cross; to pass through; to ferry
- strong current; CL:股[gu3]
- river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]); (bound form) the Yellow River; (bound form) the Milky Way; (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉[he2 fen3]
- to combine; to join; unite; alliance
- to write a letter (to the authorities); to present a petition
- to complete; to accomplish
- to accept; to adopt
- to appoint; (job) appointment; CL:紙|纸[zhi3]
- head of a committee
- to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task; CL:個|个[ge4],份[fen4],項|项[xiang4]
- labor; laborer
- draft (legislation, proposal etc)
- to prevent; to take precautions against; to protect; to guard against; precautionary; prophylactic
- drastic; extreme; aggressive
- socialism
- each country; every country; various countries
- 20th century
- guarantee; to guarantee; to ensure; to safeguard; to pledge; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to overflow; to inundate; to flood; (fig.) to proliferate unchecked
- still; as before; yet
- to anticipate; to expect; expectations
- in the past; formerly
- to announce; to make public; to publish
- to shelve; to set aside
- lit. flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in the lake (idiom); fig. an unrealistic rosy view; viewing things through rose-tinted spectacles; also written 水月鏡花|水月镜花