1 grave

2 serious

3 severe

4 critical

1 to esteem

2 to respect

3 to honor

4 to value

5 eminent

6 serious

7 proper

1 way of thinking

2 opinion

3 notion

4 to think of a way (to do sth)

5 classifier: 个 gè

1 method

2 way

3 means

4 classifier: 个 gè

1 unable

2 incapable

1 each word carries weight

2 a promise must be kept (idiom)

1 lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things

2 naive

3 doesn't know who's who

4 no sense of priorities

1 to substitute one's words for the law (idiom); high-handedly putting one's orders above the law

1 to substitute one's words for the law and abuse power to crush it (idiom); completely lawless behavior

2 Might makes right.

1 to challenge the law (idiom)

2 to knowingly violate the law