- whole; entire; total
- similar to; like
- human body
- the four limbs of the body
- harm; to damage; to impair
- inevitably
- lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect; to stress the incidental over the fundamental; to put the cart before the horse
- scapegoat
- to tear open; to tear down; to tear apart; to open
- (coll.) to cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience
- (literary) pen; fold (for livestock); prison; jail; firm; secure; fast
- to review (a lesson etc)
- Zuo Zhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo's Annals or Mr Zuo's commentary on 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明[Zuo3 Qiu1 ming2]
- much hardships may awaken a nation (idiom); calamity that prompts renewal
- (of a group of people or a convoy of vehicles) to set off
- to fall behind; to lag (in technology etc); backward; to retrogress
- impoverished; backward both economically and culturally
- to run a school
- to stop; to pause; to arrange; to lay out; to kowtow; to stamp (one's foot); at once; classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
- to recall fondly; to remember with emotion
- kindergarten; nursery school
- (literary) deeply worried
- to urge sb on
- from beginning to end; all along
- to collect material
- veiled criticism
- to lead astray
- rather than... (used in expressions of the form 與其|与其[yu3 qi2] + {verb1} + 不如[bu4 ru2] + {verb2} "rather than {verb1}, better to {verb2}")
- hooligan; rogue; a good-for-nothing
- hesitation; misgivings; doubt
- to meet; to see each other; CL:次[ci4]
- to meet; to encounter; to come across
- to exchange conventional greetings; to exchange pleasantries
- to go straight to; to make a beeline for
- to speak frankly with assurance
- Mei Lanfang (1894-1961), famous master of Beijing opera, specialist in female roles
- a short time; a little while
- apparently right but actually wrong; specious (idiom)
- to digest (food); (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process
- next day; the morrow