Vocabulary
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| 上善若水 上善若水 | the ideal is to be like water (which benefits all living things and does not struggle against them) (quotation from the "Book of Dao") | |
| 验尸官 驗屍官 | coroner | |
| 周游世界 周遊世界 | to travel around the world | |
| 气宇 氣宇 | bearing; manner | |
| 再造之恩 再造之恩 | 再: again, twice, re- · 造: construct, build, make, begin; prepare · 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to · 恩: kindness, mercy, charity | |
| 精纯 精純 | pure; unadulterated; exquisite | |
| 门户之见 門戶之見 | sectarian bias; parochialism | |
| 撒网 撒網 | to throw a net | |
| 神妙 神妙 | marvelous; wondrous | |
| 斗鸡 鬥雞 | cock fighting | |
| 正经八百 正經八百 | very serious; solemn | |
| 独角戏 獨角戲 | monodrama; one-man show; comic talk | |
| 诡辩 詭辯 | specious arguments; sophistry | |
| 超支 超支 | to overspend | |
| 耍弄 耍弄 | to play with; to engage in; to resort to; to dally with | |
| 湮灭 湮滅 | to sink into oblivion; to bury in obscurity | |
| 孤寡 孤寡 | orphans and widows; to be lonely; loneliness | |
| 逗弄 逗弄 | to tease; to provoke; to play with (a child, animal etc) | |
| 思辨 思辨 | to think critically; (philosophy) to reason; to speculate | |
| 藏拙 藏拙 | avoiding doing something that one is clumsy at to save face | |
| 不去理 不去理 | not to pay attention to; to leave sth as it is; to ignore | |
| 异端 異端 | heresy | |
| 鄙夷 鄙夷 | to despise; to look down on; to feel contempt for | |
| 摧锋陷阵 摧鋒陷陣 | 摧: destroy, break, injure · 锋: point of spear, sharp point · 陷: submerge, sink, plunge; trap · 阵: column, row or file of troops | |
| 不成文 不成文 | unwritten (rule) | |
| 暖洋洋 暖洋洋 | warm and cozy; comfortably warm | |
| 聊表寸心 聊表寸心 | (of a gift) to be a small token of one's feelings | |
| 胜败乃兵家常事 勝敗乃兵家常事 | 胜: victory; excel, be better than · 败: be defeated, decline, fail · 乃: then; really, indeed; as it turned out, after all; namely · 兵: soldier, troops · 家: house, home, residence; family · 常: common, normal, frequent, regular · 事: affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident | |
| 甘于 甘於 | to be willing to; to be ready to; to be content with; accepting (of restriction, sacrifice, risk etc) | |
| 吉兆 吉兆 | lucky omen | |
| 非富即贵 非富即貴 | wealthy and respectable people | |
| 天上不会掉馅饼 天上不會掉餡餅 | there is no such thing as a free lunch (idiom) | |
| 雇凶 僱兇 | to hire a hitman | |
| 鼎鼎有名 鼎鼎有名 | 鼎: large, three-legged bronze caldron · 鼎: large, three-legged bronze caldron · 有: have, own, possess; exist · 名: name, rank, title, position | |
| 混子 混子 | hoodlum; person unfit for society | |
| 冥顽 冥頑 | stupidly obstinate | |
| 荧惑 熒惑 | to bewilder; to dazzle and confuse; the planet Mars | |
| 头梳 頭梳 | comb; hairbrush | |
| 暑往寒来 暑往寒來 | 暑: hot · 往: go, depart; past, formerly · 寒: cold, wintry, chilly · 来: come, coming; return, returning | |
| 国无宁日 國無寧日 | 国: nation, country, nation-state · 无: negative, no, not; KangXi radical 71 · 宁: calm, peaceful, serene; healthy · 日: sun; day; daytime | |
| 倚势凌人 倚勢凌人 | 倚: rely on, depend on; lean heavily · 势: power, force; tendency · 凌: pure; virtuous; insult; maltreat · 人: man; people; mankind; someone else | |
| 叛国罪 叛國罪 | the crime of treason | |
| 贫困潦倒 貧困潦倒 | 贫: poor, impoverished, needy · 困: to surround, beseige; to be surrounded; difficult · 潦: to flood; a puddle; without care · 倒: fall over; lie down; take turns | |
| 转瞬之间 轉瞬之間 | 转: shift, move, turn · 瞬: wink, blink; in a wink, a flash · 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to · 间: midpoint, space; place, locality | |
| 勾栏 勾欄 | brothel; theater; carved balustrade | |
| 浩然之气 浩然之氣 | 浩: great, numerous, vast, abundant · 然: yes, certainly; pledge, promise · 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to · 气: steam, vapor; KangXi radical 84 | |
| 艾蒿 艾蒿 | mugwort (Artemisia) | |
| 补剂 補劑 | tonic; supplement | |
| 牧养 牧養 | to raise (animals) | |
| 棕黄 棕黃 | light brown |