- superiority; dominance; advantage
- to drill; to practice
- (bound form) to confer; to give; (bound form) to teach; to instruct; (literary) to appoint
- handle or shaft (of an axe etc); (of a flower, leaf or fruit) stem; sth that affords an advantage to an opponent; classifier for knives or blades
- candid; direct and to the point; simply; just; might as well
- critic; detractor
- fierce; violent; vigorous; intense
- disciple
- (literary) to pass away; to die; to depart from this world
- no good
- to carp; nitpicking; petty criticism
- at a loss; unable to do anything about it; to have no choice
- follower; adherent; following
- (idiom) to put on makeup; (idiom) to prettify
- lit. to erect a stele and write a biography (idiom); to monumentalize; to glorify; to sing the praises of
- psychology; mentality
- compound interest (esp. in loans, snowballing debt)
- lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper; right and unalterable; a matter of course
- in a spurt of energy
- to continue the struggle (idiom); to persist; unremitting efforts
- (idiom) to keep on the right side of everyone (often at the expense of principle)
- protective step; protective measure
- to dispute; to disagree; to argue opinionatedly; to wrangle
- margin; leeway
- mutual trust
- to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc); burden
- to be suspicious and jealous of
- to burst; to rupture; (of a relationship etc) to break down
- to sever; to break off
- public courtroom accusation (idiom); legal confrontation; to take sb to court; to sue
- to get married and start a career (idiom); to settle down; to establish oneself
- 机制 jī zhì: 机制 ji1 zhi4: mechanism机制 jī zhì: 机制 ji1 zhi4: machine-processed; machine-made
- profitable
- to entrust; to trust; to commission
- effect; result