Vocabulary
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| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 说三道四 說三道四 | to make thoughtless remarks (idiom); to criticize; gossip | Idiom |
| 红杏出墙 紅杏出牆 | lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom); fig. a wife having an illicit lover | Idiom |
| 鼎鼎大名 鼎鼎大名 | famous; celebrated | Idiom |
| 天涯海角 天涯海角 | Tianya Haijiao, tourism area on the south coast of Hainan, 24 km west of Sanya | Idiom |
| 说来话长 說來話長 | start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly | Idiom |
| 小题大做 小題大做 | to make a big fuss over a minor issue (idiom) | Idiom |
| 数一数二 數一數二 | (idiom) reckoned to be best or second best; one of the very best; (idiom) to list one by one | Idiom |
| 平起平坐 平起平坐 | to be on an equal footing | Idiom |
| 事在人为 事在人為 | the matter depends on the individual (idiom); it is a matter for your own effort; With effort, one can achieve anything. | Idiom |
| 人山人海 人山人海 | (idiom) multitude; vast crowd | Idiom |
| 五湖四海 五湖四海 | all parts of the country | Idiom |
| 一问三不知 一問三不知 | lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom); fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on; complete ignorance | Idiom |
| 一路顺风 一路順風 | to have a pleasant journey (idiom) | Idiom |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 不要脸 不要臉 | to have no sense of shame; shameless | Xiehouyu |
| 见不得人 見不得人 | shameful | Xiehouyu |
| 拉倒 拉倒 | (coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go; to pull down | Xiehouyu |
| 有数 有數 | to have kept count; to know how many; (fig.) to know exactly how things stand; to know the score; not many; only a few | Xiehouyu |
| 轻信 輕信 | to easily trust; gullible; naïve | Xiehouyu |
| 三长两短 三長兩短 | unexpected misfortune; unexpected accident; sudden death | Xiehouyu |
| 天生一对 天生一對 | a match made in heaven; a perfect couple | Xiehouyu |
| 一成不变 一成不變 | (idiom) immutable; impervious to change; set in stone | 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 |
| 长脸 長臉 | (coll.) to bring credit to (sb); to do (sb) proud | Colloquialism |
| 带子 帶子 | belt; band; ribbon; strap; girdle; (coll.) audio or video tape; Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri); comb pen shell (Atrina pectinata) | Colloquialism |
| 弄走 弄走 | (coll.) to take (sth) away; to get rid of | 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 |
| 好气 好氣 | (coll.) good mood (usu. used in the negative); angry (usu. used in combination with) | Colloquialism |
| 菜鸟 菜鳥 | (coll.) sb new to a particular subject; rookie; beginner; newbie | Colloquialism |
| 星星 星星 | (coll.) a star; the stars in the sky | 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 |
| 武汉 武漢 | Wuhan, sub-provincial city and capital of Hubei Province | Proper Noun |
| 周六 週六 | Saturday | Proper Noun |
| 万年 萬年 | Wannian county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi | Proper Noun |
| 孟浩然 孟浩然 | Meng Haoran (689-740), Tang Dynasty Poet | Proper Noun |
| 周四 週四 | Thursday | Proper Noun |
| 西湖 西湖 | Xihu or West lake (place name); West Lake in Hangzhou 杭州, Zhejiang; Xihu or Hsihu township in Miaoli county, northwest Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 大名 大名 | Daming county in Handan, Hebei | Proper Noun |