Vocabulary
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| 叫车 叫車 | to call a cab (by phone); to request a ride (via an app) | |
| 穿帮 穿幫 | (TV or movie) blooper; continuity error; (theater) to flub one's lines; unintended exposure of a body part; to be exposed (of a scheme or trick); to reveal sth one intended to conceal through a slip of the tongue; to blow one's cover | |
| 找碴 找碴 | variant of | |
| 好起来 好起來 | to get better; to improve; to get well | |
| 话说回来 話說回來 | (but) then again; (but) on the other hand | |
| 见笑 見笑 | to mock; to be ridiculed; to incur ridicule through one's poor performance (humble) | |
| 说不过去 說不過去 | cannot be justified; inexcusable | |
| 好记 好記 | easy to remember | |
| 打跑 打跑 | to run off rebuffed; to fend off; (to fight off and make sb) run off | |
| 月老 月老 | matchmaker; go-between; same as | |
| 用膳 用膳 | to dine | |
| 难吃 難吃 | unpalatable | |
| 比下去 比下去 | to defeat; to be superior to | |
| 差不多的 差不多的 | the great majority | |
| 下次见 下次見 | see you next time | |
| 大我 大我 | the collective; the whole; (Buddhism) the greater self | |
| 去重 去重 | to remove duplicates | |
| 是次 是次 | (formal) this time | |
| 骰子 骰子 | dice | |
| 妖女 妖女 | beautiful woman | |
| 干等 乾等 | to wait in vain; to sit around waiting | |
| 什么好说 什麼好說 | sth pertinent to say | |
| 小脑 小腦 | cerebellum (part of the brain) | |
| 正比 正比 | direct ratio; directly proportional | |
| 不正常 不正常 | abnormal | |
| 大二 大二 | second-year university student | |
| 买票 買票 | to buy tickets; (Tw) to buy votes (in an election) | |
| 难住 難住 | to baffle; to stump | |
| 年会 年會 | annual meeting | |
| 起球 起球 | (of a sweater, fabric etc) to pill | |
| 起小 起小 | since childhood | |
| 用语 用語 | choice of words; wording; phraseology; term | |
| 外快 外快 | extra income | |
| 打饭 打飯 | to get food at a canteen | |
| 进站 進站 | (of a train, bus etc) to pull into a station; to arrive at a stop; (of a person) to enter a station; to visit a website; to formally begin a temporary postdoctoral research position (China has postdoctoral research "stations" 博士後流動站|博士后流动站[ | |
| 包间 包間 | private room (in a restaurant, or for karaoke etc); parlor; booth; compartment | |
| 放话 放話 | to give orders; to spread news or rumors; to leak certain information intentionally | |
| 小白菜 小白菜 | bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) | |
| 住校 住校 | to board at school | |
| 白开水 白開水 | plain boiled water | |
| 家常菜 家常菜 | home cooking | |
| 下午好 下午好 | (greeting) good afternoon | |
| 高高手 高高手 | Please do not be too severe on me! | |
| 起跑 起跑 | to start running; the start of a race | |
| 过少 過少 | too few; insufficient | |
| 没门儿 沒門兒 | no way; impossible | |
| 班会 班會 | class meeting (in schools) | |
| 女仆 女僕 | female servant; maid | |
| 打下手 打下手 | to act in a supporting role; fig. to play second fiddle | |
| 玩不起 玩不起 | can't afford to play; (fig.) can't accept it when one loses |