- 怔 zhèng: 怔 zheng4: (dialect) to stare blankly; to be in a daze; Taiwan pr. [leng4]怔 zhēng: 怔 zheng1: (bound form) startled; terrified; panic-stricken
- accurate; exact; precise
- 说 shūo: 说 shuo1: to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine说 shùi: 说 shui4: to persuade
- 将 jiàng: 将 jiang4: (bound form) a general; (literary) to command; to lead; (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)将 jiāng: 将 jiang1: will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])将 qiāng: 将 qiang1: to desire; to invite; to request
- (of a nation) to join an alliance; (of an athlete) to join a sports team; (of an entrepreneur) to join a franchise; (of an actor) to join the cast of a movie; (of a recording artist) to sign with a label
- republic
- (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 彈指之間|弹指之间[tan2 zhi3 zhi1 jian1])
- to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution; revolutionary; to revolt (against sb or sth); to revolutionize (sth); (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命); CL:次[ci4]
- nowadays; now
- these
- lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom); fig. to be annihilated; to vanish in a puff of smoke
- people
- to doubt (sth); to be skeptical of; to have one's doubts; to harbor suspicions; to suspect that
- now; at present; (anatomy) subocular
- road; path; way; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- whether or not; can it or can't it; is it possible?
- communism
- each; every
- independent; independence; to stand alone
- a shout; fig. opinion or demand, esp. expressed by a group
- at the same time; simultaneously
- economy; economic
- to worsen
- armed forces; troops; CL:支[zhi1]
- to furnish; to provide; supply (as in supply and demand)
- insufficient; lacking; deficiency; not enough; inadequate; not worth; cannot; should not
- factory; CL:家[jia1],座[zuo4]
- to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation); to start a construction job
- powerless; lacking strength
- to transfer (personnel or material)
- goods; supplies
- 远 yuǎn: 远 yuan3: far; distant; remote; (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc)远 yuàn: 远 yuan4: to distance oneself from (classical)
- 边 biān: 边 bian1: side; edge; margin; border; boundary; CL:個|个[ge4]; simultaneously边 bian: 边 bian5: suffix of a noun of locality
- to break up into components; to disintegrate; to collapse; to crumble
- to support; to prop up; to push or move with a pole; to maintain; to open or unfurl; to fill to bursting point; brace; stay; support
- to sigh; to exclaim
- tone of voice; the way one speaks; manner of expression; tone
- although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是[ke3 shi4] or 但是[dan4 shi4] etc)
- to have a premonition; premonition
- political situation
- (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation
- didn't expect
- to emerge (from a comparison); to come out as; to be competent or equal to
- rapid; quick; speed; rate; soon; almost; to make haste; clever; sharp (of knives or wits); forthright; plainspoken; gratified; pleased; pleasant
- indeed; really (very much so)
- the outside world; external
- connection; contact; relation; to get in touch with; to integrate; to link; to touch