有期徒刑 | yǒu qī tú xíng | limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment) | |
歹徒 | dǎi tú | evildoer; malefactor; gangster; hoodlum | |
信徒 | xìn tú | believer | |
徒弟 | tú dì | apprentice; disciple | |
叛徒 | pàn tú | traitor; turncoat; rebel; renegade; insurgent |
1 | While there are evil people who simply set out to commit frauds, few frauds of the nature we are seeing in China start out that way. | |
2 | For those who stay in the city, rising rent only adds pressure. | |
3 | They are my children' s godparents, the people to whom I' ve been able to turn in times of trouble, people who have been kind enough not to sue me when I took their names for Death Eaters. | |
4 | Maybe we drag ourselves to the local bar to hang out with some friends and eat, drink, and watch the news on TV - which adds its own layer of stress - hoping our feelings will just disappear. | |
5 | In the example above, Sam' s assignment was late (a fact,) but her thought that "I'm a procrastinator" would only cause stress if she believed it. |