Vocabulary
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| 每 每 | each; every | |
| 总 總 | general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc | |
| 内 內 | inside; inner; internal; within; interior | |
| 关系 關係 | relation; relationship; to concern; to affect; to have to do with; guanxi | |
| 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 | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 继续 繼續 | to continue; to proceed with; to go on with | |
| 情况 情況 | circumstances; state of affairs; situation | |
| 世界 世界 | world | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 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 | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 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}) | |
| 网开一面 網開一面 | open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly; to give one's opponent a way out; lenient treatment | Idiom |
| 说来话长 說來話長 | start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly | Idiom |
| 数一数二 數一數二 | (idiom) reckoned to be best or second best; one of the very best; (idiom) to list one by one | Idiom |
| 海市蜃楼 海市蜃樓 | (idiom) (lit. and fig.) mirage | Idiom |
| 千千万万 千千萬萬 | lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers; innumerable; thousands upon thousands | Idiom |
| 女大十八变 女大十八變 | lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom); fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was | Idiom |
| 千里迢迢 千里迢迢 | (idiom) from a great distance; (to come) from afar | Idiom |
| 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 |
| 万水千山 萬水千山 | ten thousand crags and torrents (idiom); the trials and tribulations of a long journey; a long and difficult road | Idiom |
| 三天两头 三天兩頭 | lit. twice every three days (idiom); practically every day; frequently | Idiom |
| 三教九流 三教九流 | the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists); fig. people from all trades (often derog.) | Idiom |
| 风吹草动 風吹草動 | lit. grass stirring in the wind (idiom); fig. the slightest whiff of trouble | Idiom |
| 白头偕老 白頭偕老 | (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss; until death do us part | Idiom |
| 小题大做 小題大做 | to make a big fuss over a minor issue (idiom) | Idiom |
| 不知轻重 不知輕重 | lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things; naive; doesn't know who's who; no sense of priorities | Idiom |
| 变生肘腋 變生肘腋 | lit. calamity in one's armpit (idiom); a major coup happening on one's doorstep; trouble or danger in one's own backyard | Idiom |
| 颐养天年 頤養天年 | lit. to nurture one's years (idiom); fig. to enjoy one's later years | Idiom |
| 天下太平 天下太平 | the whole world at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity | Idiom |
| 焕然一新 煥然一新 | to look completely new (idiom); brand new; changed beyond recognition | Idiom |
| 红杏出墙 紅杏出牆 | lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom); fig. a wife having an illicit lover | Idiom |
| 一日千里 一日千里 | lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress | Idiom |
| 满天飞 滿天飛 | to rush around everywhere; always active | Idiom |
| 闻名遐迩 聞名遐邇 | (idiom) to be famous far and wide | Idiom |
| 动辄得咎 動輒得咎 | faulted at every turn (idiom); can't get anything right | Idiom |
| 行云流水 行雲流水 | lit. moving clouds and flowing water (idiom); fig. very natural and flowing style of calligraphy, writing, etc; natural and unforced | Idiom |
| 山高水长 山高水長 | high as the mountain and long as the river (idiom); fig. noble and far-reaching | Idiom |