1 element

2 element of a set

3 chemical element

1 element

2 factor

3 classifier: 个 gè

1 beef

1 raw silk

2 white

3 plain, unadorned

4 vegetarian (food)

5 essence

6 nature

7 element

8 constituent

9 usually

10 always

11 ever

1 inner quality

2 basic essence

1 lit. to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom)

2 fig. to be at sb's mercy

1 hardworking, thrifty, plain, and simple (idiom)

1 a book is not judged by its cover (idiom)

1 to hold a sinecure (idiom)

1 lit. the weak are prey to the strong (idiom); fig. predatory behavior

2 the law of the jungle