stimulus; impetus; incentive; encouragement; motivation; provocation
stimulus; impetus; incentive; encouragement; motivation; provocation
to raise; to lift; to boost; to enhance
motive power; driving force
main part; complete subject; grammatical subject
to remove; to eliminate; to eradicate; to exclude; to except
last (i.e. immediately preceding); previous; pre- (e.g. premodern); before; before; earlier
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
good person; virtuous person
bad person; villain; scoundrel; wrongdoer; wicked person
to become weak; to decline; to wear; to abate; to decay; to wither
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
handling (e.g. knife, reins); control; use; dealing with (e.g. customers); management; disposal (esp. sale of goods)
rampancy; prevalence; domination
to scoff; to laugh at; to make fun of; to ridicule; to jeer at
to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport
pointing out; identification
unfairness; injustice; partiality
selfless (pious, righteous) man
inevitability of punishment
reality; real state of affairs; true state of affairs; true form of all things as they are; ultimate reality
profanation; defiling something precious
as a matter of fact; by the way; to tell you the truth; to be honest; frankly
error; mistake; slip; bug
to join together; to sum up; to combine; to unite; to mix; to agree with
centre; center; pivot; central nervous system
to take out; to get out; to put out; to reveal; to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in; to publish
zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)
concealment (of one's vices); veil; cover; overturning; toppling
shoe; shoes; boots; footwear; footgear
burst of laughter; roar of laughter
describing; comparing; form; figure; personal appearance; one's face and figure
used item; secondhand item; old; used; previous
pillar; post; support; prop; counter for buddhas, gods, nobles, etc.
to shake; to waver; to tremble