1 to die

2 impassable

3 uncrossable

4 inflexible

5 rigid

6 extremely

7 damned

1 life (as the characteristic of living beings)

2 living being

3 creature

4 classifier: 个 gè

5 classifier: 条 tiáo

1 human life

2 classifier: 条 tiáo

1 mission

2 long-term task to which one devotes oneself

3 a calling

1 to pay with one's life

1 to die (idiom)

2 to breathe one's last

3 to give up the ghost

1 lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom)

2 fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal

3 to keep going while some hope is left

1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)

2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle

3 it's either him or me

1 to act recklessly (idiom)

1 don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)

2 there's more than one way to skin a cat