Vocabulary
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| 步 步 | a step; a pace; walk; march; stages in a process; situation | |
| 自然 自然 | nature; natural; naturally | |
| 某 某 | some; a certain; sb or sth indefinite; such-and-such | |
| 城 城 | city walls; city; town | |
| 至少 至少 | at least; (to say the) least | |
| 发展 發展 | development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand | |
| 力 力 | power; force; strength; ability; strenuously | |
| 下去 下去 | to go down; to descend; to go on; to continue; (of a servant) to withdraw | |
| 金 金 | gold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals; money; golden; highly respected; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 音 | |
| 约 約 | to weigh in a balance or on a scale | |
| 设计 設計 | to design; to plan; design; plan | |
| 技术 技術 | technology; technique; skill | |
| 曾经 曾經 | once; already; former; previously; ever; (past tense marker used before verb or clause) | |
| 台 檯 | desk; table; counter | |
| 线 線 | thread; string; wire; line; (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city) | |
| 里面 裡面 | inside; interior; also pr. [lǐ mian] | |
| 总是 總是 | always | |
| 区 區 | area; region; district; small; distinguish | |
| 下来 下來 | to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders) | |
| 目前 目前 | at the present time; currently | |
| 城市 城市 | city; town | |
| 整个 整個 | whole; entire; total | |
| 活 活 | to live; alive; living; work; workmanship | |
| 转 轉 | see 转文 | |
| 解决 解決 | to solve; to resolve; to settle (a problem); to eliminate; to wipe out (an enemy, bandits etc) | |
| 部 部 | ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc | |
| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 使 使 | to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger | |
| 受 受 | to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker) | |
| 只有 只有 | only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才) it is only if one ... (that one can ...) (Example: 只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only ... (who ...) (Example: 要 "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to indicate that one has no alternative) one can only (do a certain thing) (Example: 服 "the only thing you can do is give in") | |
| 由 由 | to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ... | |
| 内 內 | inside; inner; internal; within; interior | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 已 已 | already; to stop; then; afterwards | |
| 继续 繼續 | to continue; to proceed with; to go on with | |
| 世界 世界 | world | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 所 所 | actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive | |
| 并 並 | and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to merge | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 十万八千里 十萬八千里 | light-years (apart); a million miles (apart); (i.e. indicates a huge difference or a huge distance) | Idiom |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 江苏 江蘇 | Jiangsu Province, capital Nanjing | Proper Noun |
| 太湖 太湖 | Lake Tai near Wuxi City, bordering on Jiangsu and Zhejiang, one of China's largest freshwater lakes | Proper Noun |