- to prevent; to take precautions against; to protect; to guard against; precautionary; prophylactic
- breath; smell; odor; flavor
- to frighten; to horrify; to terrify
- middle age
- distant place
- is precisely
- dispute
- to lack; to be short of
- common sense; general knowledge
- from this, it can be seen that...
- no more; no longer
- to understand; to pay attention to; to take notice of
- disturbance; uproar; CL:陣|阵[zhen4]; to become restless
- to immerse oneself in; engrossed in sth; to lower the head (e.g. to avoid rain); countersunk (of screws, rivets etc)
- to involve; to implicate; to be interrelated
- (of wind etc) to subside; to die down; to quell; to smooth over (a dispute etc); to suppress (a rebellion etc)
- everyone
- 段 duàn: 段 duan4: paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc段 Duàn: 段 Duan4: surname Duan
- to revive; (lit. and fig.) to come back to life; (religion) resurrection
- conspicuous; eye-catching; glamorous
- strange thing; curious occurrence
- open; overt; public; to make public; to release
- unusual; abnormal; extremely; exceptionally
- (of colors) bright; fresh and clear; clear-cut; distinct
- unexpected; accident; mishap; CL:個|个[ge4]
- according to; in accordance with; on the basis of
- to answer; to respond
- to fall into
- pitfall; snare; trap
- in a word; in short; in brief
- odd; queer; strange; fishy
- wonderful; marvelous; intriguing; mysterious; strange
- idiocy; idiot
- to hope; a hope; a wish
- subject (of a talk or conversation); topic
- honest; forthcoming; to confess
- strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
- see 事到如今[shi4 dao4 ru2 jin1]
- to rush (to do sth urgent); to try to be the first; to forestall
- to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for