- to choose (literary)
- Thomas (male name)
- alive
- to lean against or on; to stand by the side of; to come near to; to depend on; to trust; to fuck (vulgar); traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old)
- to believe in (a religion); firm belief; conviction
- (used for abstract things) a good deal, a lot of
- to argue; to debate; to contend; argument; contention; controversy; debate; CL:次[ci4],場|场[chang3]
- objection; dissent
- need not; does not have to; not necessarily
- (idiom) to think deeply; to rack one's brains
- to quarrel; dispute
- sense of satisfaction
- time; era; period of time
- 孙子 sūn zi: 孙子 sun1 zi5: grandson; son's son孙子 Sūn zǐ: 孙子 Sun1 zi3: Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武[Sun1 Wu3] (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1]
- great-grandson
- religion
- to separate
- favorable circumstances
- adversity; predicament
- to view as; to see as; to consider to be; to deem
- to laugh happily; a belly-laugh
- to pray; to say a prayer
- to tumble; to fall; fig. to suffer a reverse (in politics or business)
- sense of security
- incomparable
- rich; plentiful
- old-fashioned; old-school
- to go out of control
- already fixed; set; established
- rule; regulation; regular; orderly; fixed
- to release; to set free; to liberate (a prisoner); to discharge
- lapse; mistake; to make a mistake; fault; service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc)
- therefore; as a result; thus; and as a result, ...
- to contribute to; to promote
- humble
- playboy
- lit. to tear down the east wall to repair the west wall (saying); fig. to rob Peter to pay Paul
- grave consequence; serious repercussion
- (banking) to overdraw; to take out an overdraft; an overdraft; to overspend (i.e. expenditure in excess of revenue); (old) to draw one's wage in advance; (fig.) to exhaust (one's enthusiasm, energy etc); to damage a natural resource through overuse
- limitations; (medicine) localized
- to be absent
- steel
- difficult problem