Vocabulary
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| 指望 指望 | to count on; to hope for; prospect; hope | |
| 撤 撤 | to remove; to take away | |
| 提名 提名 | to nominate | |
| 亲戚 親戚 | a relative (i.e. family relation) | |
| 粒 粒 | grain; granule; classifier for small round things (peas, bullets, peanuts, pills, grains etc) | |
| 烫 燙 | to scald; to burn (by scalding); to blanch (cooking); to heat (sth) up in hot water; to perm; to iron; scalding hot | |
| 爹 爹 | dad | |
| 拍卖 拍賣 | to auction; auction sale; to sell at a reduced price | |
| 熬 熬 | to boil; to simmer | |
| 都会 都會 | city; metropolis | |
| 兼 兼 | double; twice; simultaneous; holding two or more (official) posts at the same time | |
| 实话 實話 | truth | |
| 坑 坑 | pit; depression; hollow; tunnel; hole in the ground; (archaic) to bury alive; to hoodwink; to cheat (sb) | |
| 瞎 瞎 | blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 贼 賊 | thief; traitor; wily; deceitful; evil; extremely | |
| 娶 娶 | to take a wife; to marry (a woman) | |
| 创 創 | a wound; cut; injury; trauma | |
| 盯 盯 | to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 砸 砸 | to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 经 經 | classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 | |
| 同志 同志 | comrade; (slang) homosexual | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 破釜沉舟 破釜沉舟 | lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat; to burn one's boats | Idiom |
| 忘恩负义 忘恩負義 | to forget favors and violate justice (idiom); ingratitude to a friend; to kick a benefactor in the teeth | Idiom |
| 尽心竭力 盡心竭力 | to spare no effort (idiom); to do one's utmost | Idiom |
| 幸灾乐祸 幸災樂禍 | lit. to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom); fig. to rejoice in other people's misfortune; Schadenfreude | Idiom |
| 有余 有餘 | to have an abundance | Xiehouyu |
| 乱哄哄 亂哄哄 | noisy and in disarray; in an uproar | Xiehouyu |
| 拍马屁 拍馬屁 | to flatter; to fawn on; to butter sb up; toadying; bootlicking | Xiehouyu |
| 耍滑头 耍滑頭 | to resort to tricks; to act in a slippery way; to try to evade (work, responsibility) | Xiehouyu |
| 整治 整治 | to bring under control; to regulate; to restore to good condition; (coll.) to fix (a person); to prepare (a meal etc) | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 雷 雷 | thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 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)? | |
| 添麻烦 添麻煩 | to cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience | |
| 我儿 我兒 | my child | |
| 讲理 講理 | to argue; to reason with sb; to talk sense; to be reasonable | |
| 副书记 副書記 | deputy secretary | |
| 离谱 離譜 | inappropriate; improper; out of place | |
| 撕烂 撕爛 | to tear up; to tear to pieces | |
| 陈年 陳年 | (of wine) aged; (of debts etc) old; longstanding | |
| 重托 重託 | great trust | |
| 掀开 掀開 | to lift open; to tear open |