1 politics

2 political

1 root

2 basis

3 classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings

4 classifier: 条 tiáo

5 radical (chemistry)

1 according to

2 based on

3 basis

4 foundation

5 classifier: 个 gè

1 fundamental

2 basic

3 root

4 simply

5 absolutely (not)

6 (not) at all

7 classifier: 个 gè

1 to rule

2 to govern

3 to manage

4 to control

5 to harness (a river)

6 to treat (a disease)

7 to wipe out (a pest)

8 to punish

9 to research

1 to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game

2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine

1 to dig up roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth

1 lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch

2 to eradicate

1 lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth

1 political and military achievements (idiom)