(idiom, from the Analects) (usu. of a passer-by who comes across a critical situation) to step in and help / to take brave or selfless action
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(idiom) to quote out of context
opportunism / pragmatism
to uphold justice / to be loyal (to one's friends) / to stick by
surrealism
the meaning of sth / an explanation of the meaning of words or phrases / definition / an interpretation (of doctrine) / religious doctrine
lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom) / fig. right and proper / right and unalterable / a matter of course
democracy (as an ideology)
commendatory sense / positive connotation
ill-gotten wealth or gains
pragmatism
teaching materials
ambiguity / several possible meanings
antonym
affection / comradeship
nationalism / national self-determination / principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers) / racism
nihilism
the essentials
traffic auxiliary police (Tw)
righteous man
courageous in fighting for a just cause
volunteer army
conscript / draftee
volunteer / voluntary worker
compulsory education
the Boxer uprising
potter's field / pauper's grave
high-minded and righteous person / patriot / loyalist
(Tw) spaghetti / pasta
adopted daughter
adopted son
free school (old)
righteous anger
righteous indignation / moral indignation
righteous indignation fills one's breast (idiom) / to feel indignant at injustice
righteous indignation fills one's breast (idiom) / to feel indignant at injustice
(idiom) to speak forcibly out of a sense of righteousness
adoptive mother
adoptive father
adoptive parents
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