代替人或事物him, her or it

• 求之不得

  just what one wishes for

• 取之不尽

  inexhaustible

• 操之过急

  act with undue haste

无所指subordinate particle

• 久而久之

  as time passes

• 不觉手之舞之，足之蹈之

  involuntarily wave one's hands and stamp one's feet

这；那this; that

往<书>to go to

• 由京之沪

  go from Beijing to Shanghai

表示领属关系used to express the possessive

• 钟鼓之声

  sound of drums and bells

• 彼之父母

  their parents

• 奉指挥员之命

  receive a commander's orders

表示修饰关系particle used between an attribute and the word it modifies

• 光荣之家

  honourable family

• 无价之宝

  priceless treasure

• 千里之外

  thousands of miles away

• 缓兵之计

  stalling tactics

• 丧家之犬

  outcast; dog with no home to go to(literal)

• 这是意料之中的事。

  This is to be expected.

• 原因之一

  one of the reasons

• 十分之九

  nine tenths

• 当前亟待解决之问题

  a current pressing problem

用在主谓结构之间used in predicate structures

• 中国之大

  the sheer size of China

• 战争之所以胜利，在于民心所向。

  The war was won due to the will of the people.

• 哭泣之哀

  the sorrow of the cries

• 一钱之微

  the smallness of the sum

• 战斗之烈

  the fierceness of battle

• 运动发展之快，规模之大，来势之猛，都是空前的。

  The speed of the movement's development, as well as its scale and fierce momentum, are all unprecedented.