1 variant: 念 niàn

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1 -ly

2 structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct

1 landlord

2 landowner

3 host

1 address

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 region

2 regional (away from the central administration)

3 local

1 to live miles apart (idiom)

1 failed and wiped over the floor (idiom); to fail utterly

2 a crushing defeat

3 beaten and in a hopeless position

1 to lump different matters together (idiom)

1 lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom)

2 fig. to go to great lengths

3 to search heaven and earth

1 lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)

2 fig. to be at the end of one's rope

3 to be trapped in a hopeless situation