Vocabulary
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| 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 |
| 平起平坐 平起平坐 | to be on an equal footing | 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 |
| 没日没夜 沒日沒夜 | day and night; regardless of the time of day or night | Idiom |
| 能说会道 能說會道 | can talk really well (idiom); the gift of the gab | Idiom |
| 信口开河 信口開河 | to speak without thinking (idiom); to blurt sth out | Idiom |
| 风花雪月 風花雪月 | wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substance; love affair; romance is in the air; dissipated life | Idiom |
| 名满天下 名滿天下 | world famous | Idiom |
| 头重脚轻 頭重腳輕 | top-heavy; fig. unbalance in organization or political structure | Idiom |
| 少年老成 少年老成 | accomplished though young; lacking youthful vigor | Idiom |
| 办不到 辦不到 | impossible; can't be done; no can do; unable to accomplish | Xiehouyu |
| 不要脸 不要臉 | to have no sense of shame; shameless | Xiehouyu |
| 靠不住 靠不住 | unreliable | Xiehouyu |
| 说不通 說不通 | it does not make sense | Xiehouyu |
| 难上加难 難上加難 | extremely difficult; even more difficult | Xiehouyu |
| 草包 草包 | bag made of woven straw; bag filled with straw; (fig.) a good-for-nothing; clumsy oaf | Xiehouyu |
| 拉倒 拉倒 | (coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go; to pull down | Xiehouyu |
| 完事 完事 | to be finished (with sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 高才 高才 | great talent; rare capability; person of outstanding ability | Xiehouyu |
| 三脚猫 三腳貓 | sb with only rudimentary skills (in a particular area) | Xiehouyu |
| 八九不离十 八九不離十 | pretty close; very near; about right | Xiehouyu |
| 坏蛋 壞蛋 | bad egg; scoundrel; bastard | Xiehouyu |
| 吃里爬外 吃裡爬外 | to work against the interests of sb one derives support from; to double-cross one's employer; to bite the hand that feeds you | Xiehouyu |
| 出风头 出風頭 | to push oneself forward; to seek fame; to be in the limelight; same as 出锋头 | Xiehouyu |
| 难看 難看 | ugly; unsightly | Xiehouyu |
| 难受 難受 | to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear | Xiehouyu |
| 难过 難過 | to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult | Xiehouyu |
| 正好 正好 | just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 接头 接頭 | connector; joint; coupling; (coll.) to contact; to get in touch with; to have knowledge of; to be familiar with | Colloquialism |
| 场子 場子 | (coll.) gathering place; public venue | Colloquialism |
| 姐夫 姐夫 | (coll.) older sister's husband | Colloquialism |
| 水草 水草 | aquatic plants; water and grass (i.e. favorable foraging land for livestock or wild animals); (Malaysia) (coll.) drinking straw | Colloquialism |
| 狗狗 狗狗 | (coll.) dog; doggie | Colloquialism |
| 没长眼睛 沒長眼睛 | (coll.) are you blind or something?; look where you're going | Colloquialism |
| 你个头 你個頭 | (coll.) my ass!; yeah, right! (used to mock a claim sb just made, as in "expert", my ass!) | Colloquialism |
| 菜鸟 菜鳥 | (coll.) sb new to a particular subject; rookie; beginner; newbie | Colloquialism |
| 字典 字典 | Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters); (coll.) dictionary | Colloquialism |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 猫 貓 | cat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (coll.) modem | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 浩然 浩然 | Hao Ran (1932-2008), journalist and proletarian novelist | Proper Noun |
| 南海 南海 | South China Sea | Proper Noun |
| 大明湖 大明湖 | Daming Lake in Jinan, Shandong | Proper Noun |
| 万里 萬里 | Wan Li (1916-2015), PRC politician | Proper Noun |
| 山阴 山陰 | Shanyin county in Shuozhou, Shanxi | Proper Noun |
| 大名 大名 | Daming county in Handan, Hebei | Proper Noun |
| 长子 長子 | Zhangzi county in Shanxi | Proper Noun |
| 他信 他信 | Thaksin Shinawatra (1949-), Thai businessman and politician, prime minister 2001-2006 | Proper Noun |