Vocabulary
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| 事务 事務 | (political, economic etc) affairs; work; transaction (as in a computer database) | |
| 应付 應付 | to deal with; to cope | |
| 都会 都會 | city; metropolis | |
| 兼 兼 | double; twice; simultaneous; holding two or more (official) posts at the same time | |
| 秩序 秩序 | order (orderly); order (sequence); social order; the state (of society) | |
| 瞎 瞎 | blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 损伤 損傷 | to harm; to damage; to injure; impairment; loss; disability | |
| 财务 財務 | financial affairs | |
| 独 獨 | alone; independent; single; sole; only | |
| 豪华 豪華 | luxurious | |
| 董事会 董事會 | board of directors | |
| 老大 老大 | old age; very; eldest child in a family; leader of a group; boss; captain of a boat; leader of a criminal gang | |
| 醒来 醒來 | to waken | |
| 产 產 | to give birth; to reproduce; to produce; product; resource; estate; property | |
| 斗 斗 | abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 星 | |
| 家族 家族 | family; clan | |
| 拨 撥 | to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch | |
| 探 探 | to explore; to search out; to scout; to visit; to stretch forward | |
| 供 供 | to provide; to supply | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 未 未 | not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
| 及 及 | and; to reach; up to; in time for | |
| 以 㕥 | to use; by means of; according to; in order to; because of; at (a certain date or place) | |
| 争权夺利 爭權奪利 | scramble for power and profit (idiom); power struggle | Idiom |
| 以防万一 以防萬一 | to guard against the unexpected (idiom); just in case; prepared for any eventualities | Idiom |
| 趁火打劫 趁火打劫 | lit. to loot a burning house (idiom); fig. to take advantage of sb's misfortune | Idiom |
| 杂七杂八 雜七雜八 | an assortment; a bit of everything; lots of different (skills) | Idiom |
| 千古罪人 千古罪人 | sb condemned by history (idiom) | Idiom |
| 木已成舟 木已成舟 | lit. the timber has been turned into a boat already (idiom); fig. what is done cannot be undone | Idiom |
| 浑水摸鱼 渾水摸魚 | to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain | Idiom |
| 无依无靠 無依無靠 | (idiom) having nothing to rely on; on one's own | Idiom |
| 浮想联翩 浮想聯翩 | to let one's imagination roam | Idiom |
| 装腔作势 裝腔作勢 | posturing; pretentious; affected | Xiehouyu |
| 撒手不管 撒手不管 | to stand aside and do nothing (idiom); to take no part in | Xiehouyu |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 表面上 表面上 | outwardly; superficially; on the face of it | |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 檄文 檄文 | (old, now used figuratively) official call to arms; official denunciation | |
| 还清 還清 | to pay back in full; to redeem a debt | |
| 扣去 扣去 | to deduct (points etc) | |
| 人渣 人渣 | dregs of society; scum | |
| 师母 師母 | term of respect for a teacher's wife | |
| 主厨 主廚 | chef; to be the chef | |
| 打理 打理 | to take care of; to sort out; to manage; to put in order | |
| 生死未卜 生死未卜 | one's fate (life or death) is uncertain (idiom); whereabouts/survival unknown | |
| 账目 賬目 | an item in accounts; an entry | |
| 大嫂 大嫂 | older brother's wife; sister-in-law; elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) |