American Dreams in China 2013
中国合伙人
Three Chinese friends build a successful English language school to help Chinese teenagers fulfil their dreams.
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Vocabulary
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| 了解 了解 | to understand; to realize; to find out | |
| 之后 之後 | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then | |
| 却 卻 | but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 缺钱 缺錢 | shortage of money | Xiehouyu |
| 毛病 毛病 | fault; defect; shortcomings; ailment | Xiehouyu |
| 痛苦 痛苦 | pain; suffering; painful | Xiehouyu |
| 土鳖 土鱉 | ground beetle; (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a, has never studied overseas; (dialect) country bumpkin | Colloquialism |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | Colloquialism |
| 输 輸 | to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) | Colloquialism |
| 整 整 | exactly; in good order; whole; complete; entire; in order; orderly; to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb | Colloquialism |
| 血 血 | blood; colloquial pr. [xiě] | Colloquialism |
| 管 筦 | to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards | Colloquialism |
| 中国日报 中國日報 | China Daily (an English language newspaper) | Proper Noun |
| 星期五 星期五 | Friday | Proper Noun |
| 美的 美的 | Midea (brand) | Proper Noun |
| 萨马兰奇 薩馬蘭奇 | Juan Antonio Samaranch (1920-2010), Spanish Olympic official, president of International Olympic Committee 1980-2001 | Proper Noun |
| 某人 某人 | someone; a certain person; some people; I (self-address after one's surname) | Proper Noun |
| 和美 和美 | Hemei or Homei Town in Changhua County, Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 北京晚报 北京晚報 | Beijing Evening News | Proper Noun |
| 美语 美語 | American English | Proper Noun |
| 明朝 明朝 | Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) | Proper Noun |
| 万历 萬曆 | reign name of Ming emperor (1573-1619) | Proper Noun |
| 沈阳 瀋陽 | Shenyang, sub-provincial city and capital of Liaoning Province | Proper Noun |
| 市中心 市中心 | city center; downtown | Proper Noun |
| 阳 陽 | positive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism); Yang, opposite: | |
| 诺 諾 | promise; assent, approve | |
| 版权 版權 | copyright | |
| 录像机 錄像機 | video recorder; VCR | |
| 生物学 生物學 | biology | |
| 饿死 餓死 | to starve to death; to be very hungry | |
| 深爱 深愛 | to love dearly | |
| 登上 登上 | to climb over; to ascend onto; to mount | |
| 周刊 週刊 | weekly publication; weekly | |
| 另一 另一 | another; the other | |
| 总有 總有 | inevitably there will be | |
| 空子 空子 | gap; unoccupied space or time; fig. gap; loophole | |
| 没法 沒法 | at a loss; unable to do anything about it; to have no choice | |
| 倒时差 倒時差 | to adjust to a different time zone | |
| 校区 校區 | campus | |
| 破发 破發 | (of a stock) to fall below the issue price; (of a tennis player) to break serve | |
| 一般人 一般人 | average person | |
| 张嘴 張嘴 | to open one's mouth (to speak, esp. to make a request); to gape | |
| 留步 留步 | (said by departing guest) no need to see me out | |
| 相会 相會 | to meet together | |
| 每个人 每個人 | everybody; everyone | |
| 各类 各類 | all categories | |
| 理想主义 理想主義 | idealism | |
| 按下 按下 | to press down; to press a button | |
| 世道 世道 | the ways of the world; the morals of the time |