Vocabulary
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| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 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)? | |
| 师母 師母 | term of respect for a teacher's wife | |
| 娘家 孃家 | wife's family (before marriage) | |
| 洗浴中心 洗浴中心 | bathing and recreation center | |
| 饶了 饒了 | to spare; to forgive | |
| 狡辩 狡辯 | to deflect blame from oneself with a dishonest story; to make excuses | |
| 入股 入股 | to invest | |
| 炒股票 炒股票 | to speculate in stocks | |
| 头功 頭功 | first class merit | |
| 增值税 增值稅 | value-added tax (VAT) | |
| 法律制裁 法律制裁 | legal sanction; prescribed punishment; punishable by law | |
| 利害关系 利害關係 | stake; vital interest; concern | |
| 公私 公私 | public and private (interests, initiative etc) | |
| 颠倒过来 顛倒過來 | to invert | |
| 摊牌 攤牌 | to lay one's cards on the table | |
| 分清 分清 | to distinguish (between different things); to make distinctions clear | |
| 利弊 利弊 | pros and cons; merits and drawbacks; advantages and disadvantages | |
| 祸根 禍根 | root of the trouble; cause of the ruin | |
| 差异化 差異化 | differentiation (of a product from its competitors etc) | |
| 好端端 好端端 | perfectly all right; without rhyme or reason | |
| 再犯 再犯 | to re-offend; repeat offender; recidivist | |
| 字斟句酌 字斟句酌 | weighing every word | |
| 割舍 割捨 | to give up; to part with | |
| 有惊无险 有驚無險 | to be more scared than hurt (idiom); to get through a daunting experience without mishap | |
| 干枯 乾枯 | withered; shriveled; dried-up | |
| 不觉 不覺 | unconsciously | |
| 踏踏实实 踏踏實實 | steady; steadfast | |
| 拧成一股绳 擰成一股繩 | to twist (strands) together to form a rope; (fig.) to unite; to work together | |
| 欠债 欠債 | to owe a debt; the sum owed | |
| 还账 還賬 | to settle and account | |
| 心地善良 心地善良 | kindhearted; good-natured | |
| 贪玩 貪玩 | to only want to have a good time; to just want to have fun, and to shy away from self-discipline | |
| 凑齐 湊齊 | to collect all the bits to make a whole | |
| 磨叽 磨嘰 | (dialect) to dawdle; to waste time; also written | |
| 顾全 顧全 | to give careful consideration to; to display thoughtfulness towards | |
| 靠谱 靠譜 | reliable; reasonable; probable | |
| 上进心 上進心 | motivation; ambition | |
| 多元化 多元化 | diversification; pluralism; to diversify | |
| 长假 長假 | long vacation | |
| 觉悟 覺悟 | to come to understand; to realize; consciousness; awareness; Buddhist enlightenment (Sanskrit: cittotpāda) | |
| 往后 往後 | from now on; in the future; time to come | |
| 追究 追究 | to investigate; to look into | |
| 师父 師父 | used for 师傅 (in Taiwan); master; qualified worker | |
| 强势 強勢 | strong; powerful; (linguistics) emphatic; intensive | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 应急 應急 | to respond to an emergency; to meet a contingency; (attributive) emergency | |
| 不仅仅 不僅僅 | not only; not just | |
| 上市 上市 | to hit the market (of a new product); to float (a company on the stock market) | |
| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that |