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- to guard against
- to exhort
- to admonish or warn
- to give up or stop doing sth
- Buddhist monastic discipline
- ring (for a finger)
- to go against the rules (of a religious order)
- to break a ban (e.g. medical)
Trad. 齋戒
- to observe a religious fast; to abstain from food or certain activities before a ritual
- to force sb to give up (a drug)
- to enforce abstinence
- to break drug dependence
Trad. 開戒
- to end abstinence
- to resume (drinking) after a break
- to break (a taboo)
- Buddhist or Taoist ordination certificate issued by monastic authorities
Trad. 豬八戒
- Zhu Bajie, character in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记, with pig-like characteristics and armed with a muckrake
- Pigsy in Arthur Waley's translation
Trad. 戒嚴區
- restricted area
- zone of application of the martial law
Trad. 戒驕戒躁
- to guard against pride and impatience (idiom); to remain modest and keep cool
Trad. 引以為戒
- to take sth as a warning (idiom)
- to draw a lesson from a case where things turned out badly
Trad. 戒奢崇儉
- (idiom) to refrain from extravagance and cherish frugality
Trad. 言者無罪，聞者足戒
- don't blame the speaker, take note of his warning (idiom); an exhortation to speak one's mind without fear of reprisals, and with the expectation of being taken seriously