don't tell me ... / could it be that...?

difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good

disaster / distress / to scold

road / path / CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3] / principle / truth / morality / reason / skill / method / Dao (of Daoism) / to say / to speak / to talk / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division)

you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2])

to persuade

to speak / to say / to explain / to scold / to tell off / a theory (typically the last character in a compound, as in 日心說|日心说 heliocentric theory)

variant of 說|说[shuo1]

to speak; to talk; to say / to explain; to comment / to scold; to tell off / (bound form) theory; doctrine

(completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) / (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)

to finish / to achieve / variant of 瞭|了[liao3] / to understand clearly

(of eyes) bright / clear-sighted / to understand clearly

unofficial variant of 瞭[liao4]

to not calculate / to not count / to not be considered (as) / to have no weight

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

to regard as / to figure / to calculate / to compute

(coll.) what?

used in 嗎啡|吗啡[ma3 fei1]

(question particle for "yes-no" questions)