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1 to do whatever one pleases

1 lit. teacher for one day, father for ever (idiom)

1 If everything else fails, retreat. (idiom)

2 三十六計，走為上策|三十六计，走为上策[sān shí liù jì

3 zǒu wéi shàng cè]

1 to regard as

2 to treat as

1 to stop at nothing (idiom)

2 to dare to do anything

1 the benevolent man cannot be rich (idiom, from Mencius). It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:24).

1 Better broken jade than intact tile.

2 Death is preferable to dishonor. (idiom)

1 to call it...

2 known as...

1 to consider sth regrettable (idiom)

1 God became man

1 not a slave to the bottle

2 able to enjoy alcohol in moderation

3 able to hold one's drink

1 to take sth to be true

1 mutually related karma (idiom); fates are intertwined

2 interdependent

1 to stop at this point

2 to end here

3 to call it a day

1 to do one's best

2 to shape up

3 to behave

4 to fend for oneself

5 you're on your own

1 to reverse cause and effect

2 to put the horse before the cart

1 to form a cohesive whole

2 to fuse together

1 Take what you hear to be false, only believe it when you see it (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself.

2 It ain't necessarily so.

1 to believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself.

2 It ain't necessarily so.

1 Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898