molecular biology

psychoanalysis

comparative literature

causing further loss when already failing to bring any benefit; backfiring

oneself / first-person pronoun: I, me (often shows the speaker's lower position in a hierarchy than the addressee) / (Kansai) you

text, original text

Literary Chinese; Classical Chinese

to write a composition

wording (esp. of written text); words / Classical Chinese; classical Chinese literary style; traditional written Chinese

a half / half