- to renounce; to abandon; to give up
- kind and honest; generous; sincere
- unfit for anything; no good; useless; (of a sick person) beyond hope
- originally; the original; original copy; original version
- to think highly of oneself
- to exhaust; to use up; to deplete; to drain
- mental and physical efforts
- to fall ill; to be stricken with an illness
- should; ought to; probably; must be; to deserve; to owe; to be sb's turn to do sth; that; the above-mentioned
- proud of oneself; pleased with oneself; complacent
- fruit
- to know that one is in the wrong (idiom)
- to gain nothing; to end up empty-handed
- to use as an excuse; excuse; pretext
- experience; to go through; to experience
- thing; object
- one by one; one after another
- to observe; to watch; to survey
- (idiom) to integrate knowledge from various sources into a deep and coherent understanding of a subject
- to fix; to fasten; to set rigidly in place; fixed; set; regular
- to get there in one step (idiom); easily done; success at a stroke; to get results overnight
- to accomplish the whole task at one stroke (idiom)
- fully aware; to recognize fully
- romantic
- history of philosophy
- to be defeated; to lose; to fail (e.g. experiments); failure; defeat; CL:次[ci4]
- 逼 bī: 逼 bi1: to compel; to pressure逼 bī: 逼 bi1: to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on
- T-shaped
- crossing; intersection (of roads)
- to seek; to look for; to request; to demand; to beseech
- posthumous writing; testament; suicide note; ancient literature
- imperial examinations (in former times)
- whole; all
- energy
- 承 Chéng: 承 Cheng2: surname Cheng; Cheng (c. 2000 BC), third of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God承 chéng: 承 cheng2: to bear; to carry; to hold; to continue; to undertake; to take charge; owing to; due to; to receive
- 令 líng: 令 ling2: used in 脊令[ji2 ling2]; used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])令 lǐng: 令 ling3: classifier for a ream of paper令 lìng: 令 ling4: to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make sth happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poem
- dispirited; dejected; dismayed
- confidence; faith (in sb or sth); CL:個|个[ge4]
- to sway; to waver; to rock; to rattle; to destabilize; to pose a challenge to
- setback; reverse; check; defeat; frustration; disappointment; to frustrate; to discourage; to set sb back; to blunt; to subdue
- down to; up to; to such an extent as to ...; also written 以至於|以至于[yi3 zhi4 yu2]
- to turn around; to look back; (fig.) to recall the past
- to study the underlying principles, esp. in neo-Confucian rational learning 理學|理学[li3 xue2]; word for Western natural sciences during late Qing
- depressed; sulky; moody; unhappy