Vocabulary
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| 消 消 | to diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time); (after 不 or 只 or 何 etc) to need; to require; to take | |
| 保姆 保姆 | nanny; housekeeper | |
| 担 擔 | to undertake; to carry; to shoulder; to take responsibility | |
| 规矩 規矩 | lit. compass and set square; fig. established standard; rule; customs; practices; fig. upright and honest; well-behaved | |
| 倒霉 倒霉 | to have bad luck; to be out of luck | |
| 指望 指望 | to count on; to hope for; prospect; hope | |
| 亲戚 親戚 | a relative (i.e. family relation) | |
| 提议 提議 | proposal; suggestion; to propose; to suggest | |
| 有意 有意 | to intend; intentionally; interested in | |
| 弥补 彌補 | to complement; to make up for a deficiency | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 独 獨 | alone; independent; single; sole; only | |
| 原本 原本 | originally; original | |
| 眼神 眼神 | expression or emotion showing in one's eyes; meaningful glance; wink; eyesight (dialect) | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 供 供 | to provide; to supply | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 省吃俭用 省吃儉用 | to live frugally | Idiom |
| 啃老 啃老 | (coll.) to live with and depend on one's parents even upon reaching adulthood | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 账本 賬本 | account book | |
| 记账 記賬 | to keep accounts; bookkeeping; to charge to an account | |
| 消气 消氣 | to cool one's temper | |
| 宅子 宅子 | house; residence | |
| 大嫂 大嫂 | older brother's wife; sister-in-law; elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) | |
| 有道理 有道理 | to make sense; reasonable | |
| 不觉 不覺 | unconsciously | |
| 掰扯 掰扯 | to debate; to dispute; to wrangle (dialect) | |
| 坑爹 坑爹 | to get one's father involved in a difficult situation; (vulgar) (of sth that makes one feel misled or let down etc) to be a big disappointment | |
| 儿媳妇 兒媳婦 | daughter-in-law | |
| 顺延 順延 | to be postponed accordingly (e.g. due to weather or other stated factors) | |
| 哼唧 哼唧 | whisper | |
| 靠谱 靠譜 | reliable; reasonable; probable | |
| 轮番 輪番 | in turn; one after another | |
| 花销 花銷 | to spend (money); expenses | |
| 持家 持家 | to housekeep; to run one's household | |
| 俭学 儉學 | to be frugal so that one can pay for one's education | |
| 嚷嚷 嚷嚷 | to argue noisily; to shout; to make widely known; to reproach | |
| 落埋怨 落埋怨 | to get blamed | |
| 牙缝 牙縫 | gap between teeth | |
| 偏心 偏心 | partial; biased; prejudiced; eccentric | |
| 糊涂账 糊塗賬 | muddled accounts; a mess of bookkeeping | |
| 女中豪杰 女中豪傑 | 女: woman, girl; feminine; rad. 38 · 中: central; center, middle; in the midst of; hit (target); attain · 豪: brave, heroic, chivalrous · 杰: hero; heroic, outstanding | |
| 还清 還清 | to pay back in full; to redeem a debt | |
| 离谱 離譜 | inappropriate; improper; out of place | |
| 砍死 砍死 | to hack to death; to kill with an ax | |
| 耍无赖 耍無賴 | to act shamelessly; to behave in a way that leaves others tut-tutting and shaking their heads in disapproval | |
| 糖葫芦 糖葫蘆 | sugar-coated Chinese hawthorn or other fruit on a bamboo skewer; tanghulu |