Vocabulary
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| 买办 買辦 | comprador | |
| 篮 籃 | basket | |
| 头子 頭子 | boss; gang leader | |
| 打酒 打酒 | to buy liquor | |
| 生来 生來 | from birth; by one's nature | |
| 眼花 眼花 | dimmed eyesight; blurred; vague and unclear vision | |
| 玩意 玩意 | toy; plaything; thing; act; trick (in a performance, stage show, acrobatics etc) | |
| 人称 人稱 | person (first person, second person etc in grammar); called; known as | |
| 后院 後院 | rear court; back garden; backyard (also fig.) | |
| 冷眼 冷眼 | cool eye; fig. detached; (treating) with indifference | |
| 名医 名醫 | famous doctor | |
| 阴司 陰司 | hell; nether world | |
| 令人 令人 | to cause one (to do sth); to make one (angry, delighted etc) | |
| 辖 轄 | linchpin of wheel; control | |
| 息 息 | rest, put stop to, end, cease | |
| 平白 平白 | for no reason; gratuitously | |
| 象 象 | elephant; ivory; figure, image | |
| 急事 急事 | urgent matter | |
| 去取 去取 | to accept or reject | |
| 酒菜 酒菜 | food and drink; food to accompany wine | |
| 轻重 輕重 | severity (of the case); degree of seriousness; whether sth is slight or serious | |
| 五脏 五臟 | five viscera of TCM, namely: heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys | |
| 往前 往前 | (in) the past; ahead; forward; in the future | |
| 夜夜 夜夜 | every night | |
| 今晚 今晚 | tonight | |
| 阴间 陰間 | the nether world; Hades; (neologism) (slang) disturbing; unsettling; awful; detestable | |
| 生下 生下 | to give birth to | |
| 满口 滿口 | a full mouth of (sth tangible); to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises, etc); (to agree etc) unreservedly | |
| 装病 裝病 | to feign illness; to malinger | |
| 动气 動氣 | to get angry | |
| 办好 辦好 | to take care of (a matter); to get (a task) done; to handle (a project) expeditiously | |
| 过得 過得 | How are you getting by?; How's life?; contraction of 過得去|过得去, can get by; tolerably well; not too bad | |
| 选出 選出 | to pick out; to select; to elect | |
| 算不得 算不得 | not count as | |
| 然 然 | yes, certainly; pledge, promise | |
| 起身 起身 | to get up; to leave; to set forth | |
| 眼见 眼見 | to see with one's own eyes; very soon | |
| 酒后 酒後 | after drinking; under the influence of alcohol | |
| 查问 查問 | to inquire about | |
| 好办 好辦 | easy to do; easy to manage | |
| 微 微 | small, prefix micro-, trifling | |
| 带坏 帶壞 | to lead astray | |
| 生分 生分 | estranged | |
| 海上 海上 | maritime | |
| 芍药 芍藥 | Chinese peony (Paeonia lactiflora); common herbaceous peony; peony used in TCM | |
| 内人 內人 | my wife (humble) | |
| 口角 口角 | corner of the mouth | |
| 洗头 洗頭 | to wash one's hair; to have a shampoo | |
| 花草 花草 | flowers and plants | |
| 在此 在此 | hereto; here |