| 欲加之罪，何患无辞 |
yù jiā zhī zuì , hé huàn wú cí |
If you want to condemn sb, don't worry about the pretext (idiom, from Zuozhuan 左传); one can always trump up a charge against sb / Give a dog a bad name, then hang him. |
| 欲 |
yù |
desire / appetite / passion / lust / greed |
| 欲 |
yù |
to wish for / to desire / variant of 欲 |
| 加 |
Jiā |
Canada (abbr. for 加拿大) / surname Jia |
| 加 |
jiā |
to add / (math.) plus / to increase; to augment / (used before a disyllabic verb, often after an adverb like 不, 大, 稍 etc, to indicate that the action applies to sth previously mentioned, as in 稍加改良 "make some minor improvements to (it)") |
| 加之 |
jiā zhī |
moreover; in addition to that |
| 之 |
zhī |
(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的) / him / her / it |
| 罪 |
zuì |
guilt / crime / fault / blame / sin |
| 罪 |
zuì |
variant of 罪, crime |
| 何 |
Hé |
surname He |
| 何 |
hé |
what / how / why / which / carry |
| 患 |
huàn |
to suffer (from illness) / to contract (a disease) / misfortune / trouble / danger / worry |
| 无 |
mó |
used in 南无 |
| 无 |
wú |
not to have / no / none / not / to lack / un- / -less |
| 辞 |
cí |
old variant of 辞 |
| 辞 |
cí |
to resign / to dismiss / to decline / (literary) to take leave / (archaic poetic genre) ballad / variant of 词 |