争讼 爭訟 zhēng sòng dispute involving litigation / legal dispute 争议 爭議 zhēng yì controversy / dispute / to dispute syn 争端解决法 dispute resolution / alternative dispute resolution 联合国争议法庭 聯合國爭議法庭 lián hé guó zhēng yì fǎ tíng United Nations Dispute Tribunal / Dispute Tribunal 争议法庭 爭議法庭 zhēng yì fǎ tíng United Nations Dispute Tribunal / Dispute Tribunal 和解费 和解費 hé jiě fèi money settlement (fine or payment to end a legal dispute) 土地事务法律援助和争端解决总统办公室 土地事務法律援助和爭端解決總統辦公室 Presidential Unit for Legal Assistance and Dispute Settlement in Land Matters 解决土地争端法律援助总统办公室 解決土地爭端法律援助總統辦公室 Presidential Office for Legal Assistance and Dispute Settlement in Land Matters 长期 長期 cháng qī long term / long time / long range (of a forecast) syn 长久 長久 cháng jiǔ long-time / long-term / lasting / enduring / permanent / for a long time syn 常委 cháng wěi standing committee (abbr. for 常務委員會|常务委员会[chang2wu4 wei3yuan2hui4]) / member of the standing committee (abbr. for 常務委員|常务委员[chang2wu4 wei3yuan2]) 常备军 常備軍 standing force / standing army / permanent force 战后和灾后重建与恢复机构间常设委员会 戰後和災後重建與恢複機構間常設委員會 Inter-Agency Standing Committee on Post-War and Disaster Reconstruction and Rehabilitation / Inter-Agency Standing Committee 机构间常设委员会 機構間常設委員會 Inter-Agency Standing Committee on Post-War and Disaster Reconstruction and Rehabilitation / Inter-Agency Standing Committee 法律援助 fǎ lǜ yuán zhù legal assistance / legal aid 法制晚报 法製晚報 fǎ zhì wǎn bào Legal Evening News, a Beijing-based legal affairs newspaper launched in 2004 and shut down in 2019 主管法律事务副秘书长、法律顾问 主管法律事務副秘書長、法律顧問 Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs / The Legal Counsel 联合国法律顾问网 lián hé guó fǎ lǜ gù wèn wǎng United Nations Legal Advisers Network / Legal Advisers Network 公设辩护律师、法律援助和法律培训处 公設辯護律師、法律援助和法律培訓處 Public Defense, Legal Aid and Legal Training Service 法外处决 法外處決 extra-legal execution / extrajudicial execution / extra-legal killing / extrajudicial killing 法律干事 法律幹事 legal officer / legal affairs officer 政法委 zhèng fǎ wěi Political and Legal Affairs Commission (may refer to the national-level Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, responsible for overseeing law enforcement, judicial affairs and domestic security, or a corresponding body at a lower administrative level) 法务 法務 fǎ wù legal affairs / in-house legal counsel 大宗 dà zōng large amount / staple / influential family of long standing syn 老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough / unicode compatibility variant of 老 syn 苦大仇深 kǔ dà chóu shēn great bitterness, deep hatred (idiom) / deeply ingrained long-standing resentment syn 夙敌 夙敵 sù dí old foe / long-standing enemy syn 夙嫌 sù xián old grudge / long-standing resentment syn 夙诺 夙諾 sù nuò old promise / long-standing commitment 宿债 宿債 sù zhài long-standing debt syn 宿弊 sù bì long-standing abuse / continuing fraud syn 立定跳远 立定跳遠 lì dìng tiào yuǎn standing long jump 苦大仇深 kǔ dà - chóu shēn (idiom) great bitterness and deep hatred / deeply ingrained long-standing resentment syn 刑网 刑網 xíng wǎng legal net / the long arm of the law 早已 zǎo yǐ for a long time / long since / (dialect) in the past syn 远程 遠程 yuǎn chéng remote / long distance / long range syn 不久 bù jiǔ not long (after) / before too long / soon / soon after syn 多久 duō jiǔ (of time) how long? / (not) a long time 长远 長遠 cháng yuǎn long-term / long-range syn 前不久 qián bù jiǔ not long ago / not long before syn 多头 多頭 duō tóu many-headed / many-layered (authority) / devolved (as opposed to centralized) / pluralistic / (as classifier) number of animals / long term (finance) / long (investment) syn 久违 久違 jiǔ wéi (haven't done sth) for a long time / a long time since we last met syn 长廊 長廊 cháng láng promenade / long hallway / Long Corridor in the Summer Palace, Beijing 北京頤和園|北京颐和园[Bei3 jing1 Yi2 he2 yuan2] 远景 遠景 yuǎn jǐng scenery in the distance / long-term prospects / (photography) long shot 长夜 長夜 cháng yè long dark night / fig. long period of misery and oppression 长袖 長袖 cháng xiù long sleeves / long-sleeved shirt 长毛 長毛 cháng máo long-wool (sheep etc) / long-haired (dog etc) 长龙 長龍 cháng lóng long queue / long line (of cars, people etc) 任重道远 任重道遠 rèn zhòng dào yuǎn a heavy load and a long road / fig. to bear heavy responsibilities through a long struggle (cf Confucian Analects, 8.7) syn 万水千山 萬水千山 wàn shuǐ qiān shān ten thousand crags and torrents (idiom) / the trials and tribulations of a long journey / a long and difficult road syn 久已 jiǔ yǐ long ago / a long time since syn 远虑 遠慮 yuǎn lǜ long-term considerations / to take the long view 夙 sù morning / early / long-held / long-cherished syn 寿比南山 壽比南山 shòu bǐ nán shān Live as long as the Zhongnan Mountains! (idiom) / Long may you live! syn 放长线钓大鱼 放長線釣大魚 fàng cháng xiàn diào dà yú use a long line to catch a big fish (idiom) / a long-term plan for major returns 宿见 宿見 sù jiàn long-held opinion / long-cherished view 异地恋 異地戀 yì dì liàn long-distance romance / long-distance relationship 蟏蛸 蠨蛸 xiāo shāo long-jawed orb weaver, aka long-jawed spider (family Tetragnathidae) 远劳 遠勞 yuǎn láo (courteous expression) you have made a long and exhausting journey / you will be making a long trip (when asking a favor that involves going to a faraway place) 长久以来 長久以來 cháng jiǔ yǐ lái for a long time now / long since 远途 遠途 yuǎn tú long-distance / long-haul 长臂吊车 long-reach crane / long-reach boom 长期任职的工作人员 long-service staff / long-serving staff 国家远景研究 guó jiā yuàn jǐng yán jiū National Long-term Perspective Studies programme / National Long-term Perspective Studies 水下远程导弹系统 水下遠程導彈系統 undersea long-range missile system / underwater long-range missile system 分久必合，合久必分 fēn jiǔ bì hé , hé jiǔ bì fēn lit. that which is long divided must unify, and that which is long unified must divide (idiom, from 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4]) / fig. things are constantly changing 豅 lóng long and wide valley 兔子尾巴长不了 兔子尾巴長不了 tù zi wěi ba cháng bu liǎo rabbits don't have long tails (idiom) / its days are numbered / won't last long syn 一起 yī qǐ (in) the same place / together / in company (with) / altogether / in total / an instance of / a case of (murder, accident, dispute etc) syn 纠纷 糾紛 jiū fēn dispute syn 教案 jiào àn lesson plan / teaching plan / a "missionary case" (a dispute over Christian missionaries during the late Qing) 各方 gè fāng all parties (in a dispute etc) / all sides / all directions syn 争吵 爭吵 zhēng chǎo to quarrel / dispute syn 阵营 陣營 zhèn yíng group of people / camp / faction / sides in a dispute syn 争执 爭執 zhēng zhí to dispute / to disagree / to argue opinionatedly / to wrangle syn 第三者 dì sān zhě sb who is romantically involved with sb already in a committed relationship / the other woman / the other man / third person / third party (in dispute) / disinterested party / number three in a list syn 平息 píng xī (of wind etc) to subside / to die down / to quell / to smooth over (a dispute etc) / to suppress (a rebellion etc) syn 和解 hé jiě to settle (a dispute out of court) / to reconcile / settlement / conciliation / to become reconciled syn 纷争 紛爭 fēn zhēng to dispute 争端 爭端 zhēng duān dispute / controversy / conflict syn 校方 xiào fāng the school (as a party in a contract, dispute etc) / the school authorities 纠葛 糾葛 jiū gé entanglement / dispute syn 争辩 爭辯 zhēng biàn a dispute / to wrangle syn 打官司 dǎ guān si to file a lawsuit / to sue / to dispute syn 口舌 kǒu shé dispute or misunderstanding caused by gossip / to talk sb round syn 辩驳 辯駁 biàn bó to dispute / to refute syn 事主 shì zhǔ victim (of a criminal) / party involved (in a dispute etc) / main instigator syn 辩称 辯稱 biàn chēng to argue (that) / to allege / to dispute / to plead (e.g. not guilty) 方 fāng square / power or involution (math.) / upright / honest / fair and square / direction / side / party (to a contract, dispute etc) / place / method / prescription (medicine) / just when / only or just / classifier for square things / abbr. for square or cubic meter syn 打圆场 打圓場 dǎ yuán chǎng to help to resolve a dispute / to smooth things over syn 滋事 zī shì to cause trouble / to provoke a dispute syn 劝架 勸架 quàn jià to mediate in a quarrel / to intervene in a dispute and try to calm things down syn 滋扰 滋擾 zī rǎo to cause trouble / to provoke a dispute 口水仗 kǒu shuǐ zhàng dispute / spat / shouting match 坐收渔利 坐收漁利 zuò shōu yú lì benefit from others' dispute (idiom) syn 较 較 jiào (bound form) to compare / (literary) to dispute / compared to / (before an adjective) relatively / comparatively / rather / also pr. [jiao3] syn 骑墙 騎牆 qí qiáng to sit on the fence (in a dispute) 解劝 解勸 jiě quàn to soothe / to pacify / to mollify / to mediate (in a dispute etc) syn 小冲突 小衝突 xiǎo chōng tū skirmish / clash / dispute / brush 