Vocabulary
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| 牵累 牽累 | to weigh down; to trouble; to implicate (sb); tied down (by affairs) | |
| 吃席 吃席 | to attend a banquet (funeral, wedding etc); (neologism c. 2020) (slang) (jocular) lit. to attend sb's funeral banquet (used to imply that things are going to go badly for sb) | |
| 串联 串聯 | to establish ties; to contact; (electricity) to connect (components) in series | |
| 谷子 穀子 | millet; (ACG) collectible merch (loanword from "goods", via Japanese "guzzu") | |
| 稀饭 稀飯 | porridge; gruel; congee | |
| 贬官 貶官 | to demote an official; a demoted official | |
| 撕破脸 撕破臉 | to have an acrimonious falling-out; to shed all pretense of cordiality; to tear into each other | |
| 事理 事理 | reason; logic | |
| 势利 勢利 | snobbish | |
| 西服 西服 | suit; Western-style clothes (historical usage) | |
| 一夜之间 一夜之間 | (lit. and fig.) overnight | |
| 嚷嚷 嚷嚷 | to argue noisily; to shout; to make widely known; to reproach | |
| 老伴 老伴 | (of an elderly couple) husband or wife | |
| 横竖 橫豎 | anyway | |
| 记账 記賬 | to keep accounts; bookkeeping; to charge to an account | |
| 旧账 舊賬 | lit. old account; old debt; fig. old scores to settle; old quarrels; old grudge | |
| 另当别论 另當別論 | to treat differently; another cup of tea | |
| 便签 便簽 | note; memo | |
| 误工 誤工 | to be late for or absent from work; to disrupt one's work; to cause a holdup in the work; loss of working time; a holdup | |
| 扣子 釦子 | button | |
| 爆出 爆出 | to burst out; to appear unexpectedly; to break (media story) | |
| 驾驶证 駕駛證 | driver's license | |
| 揭不开锅 揭不開鍋 | to be unable to afford food | |
| 凿子 鑿子 | chisel | |
| 马扎 馬紮 | campstool; folding stool (with fabric stretched across the top to sit on) | |
| 文创 文創 | (Tw) blending of cultural heritage elements with creative modern designs to produce innovative products and services (often used attributively, as in) | |
| 招商引资 招商引資 | investment promotion | |
| 常务 常務 | routine; everyday business; daily operation (of a company) | |
| 恩人 恩人 | a benefactor; a person who has significantly helped sb else | |
| 外头 外頭 | outside; out | |
| 拆迁 拆遷 | to demolish a building and relocate the inhabitants | |
| 岁数 歲數 | age (number of years old) | |
| 老乡 老鄉 | fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown | |
| 觉悟 覺悟 | to come to understand; to realize; consciousness; awareness; Buddhist enlightenment (Sanskrit: cittotpāda) | |
| 挨着 挨著 | near | |
| 配置 配置 | to deploy; to allocate; configuration; allocation | |
| 奶牛 奶牛 | milk cow; dairy cow | |
| 免得 免得 | so as not to; so as to avoid | |
| 就是说 就是說 | in other words; that is | |
| 早晚 早晚 | morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day | |
| 波动 波動 | to undulate; to fluctuate; wave motion; rise and fall | |
| 账 賬 | account; bill; debt | |
| 粥 粥 | congee; gruel; porridge | |
| 花生 花生 | peanut; groundnut | |
| 上台 上台 | to rise to power (in politics); to go on stage (in the theater) | |
| 赶上 趕上 | to keep up with; to catch up with; to overtake; to chance upon; in time for | |
| 出事 出事 | to have an accident; to meet with a mishap | |
| 欺负 欺負 | to bully | |
| 救命 救命 | to save sb's life; (interj.) Help!; Save me! | |
| 当成 當成 | to consider as; to take to be |