1 to lose

1 to be defeated

2 to lose

3 to fail (e.g. experiments)

4 failure

5 defeat

6 classifier: 次 cì

1 disappointed

2 to lose hope

3 to despair

1 to suffer from insomnia

1 to die

2 impassable

3 uncrossable

4 inflexible

5 rigid

6 extremely

7 damned

1 a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)

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