Vocabulary
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| 自作多情 自作多情 | to imagine that one's love is reciprocated; to shower affection on an uninterested party | Xiehouyu |
| 一厢情愿 一廂情願 | one's own wishful thinking | Xiehouyu |
| 成人之美 成人之美 | 成: completed, finished, fixed · 人: man; people; mankind; someone else · 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to · 美: beautiful, pretty; pleasing | Xiehouyu |
| 好险 好險 | to have a close call; to have a narrow escape | Xiehouyu |
| 难缠 難纏 | (usu. of people) difficult; demanding; troublesome; unreasonable; hard to deal with | Xiehouyu |
| 招架不住 招架不住 | 招: beckon, summon; recruit, levy · 架: rack, stand, prop; prop up · 不: no, not; un-; negative prefix · 住: reside, live at, dwell, lodge; stop | Xiehouyu |
| 受宠若惊 受寵若驚 | overwhelmed by favor from superior (humble expr.) | Xiehouyu |
| 自作主张 自作主張 | (idiom) to act on one's own; to decide for oneself | Xiehouyu |
| 多多益善 多多益善 | the more the better | Xiehouyu |
| 自欺欺人 自欺欺人 | to deceive others and to deceive oneself; to believe one's own lies | Xiehouyu |
| 弄巧成拙 弄巧成拙 | to overreach oneself; to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face | Xiehouyu |
| 拖拖拉拉 拖拖拉拉 | to procrastinate | Xiehouyu |
| 不近人情 不近人情 | (idiom) not amenable to reason; unreasonable | Xiehouyu |
| 干脆利落 乾脆利落 | (of speech or actions) direct and efficient; without fooling around | Xiehouyu |
| 鬼迷心窍 鬼迷心竅 | to be obsessed; to be possessed | Xiehouyu |
| 争风吃醋 爭風吃醋 | to rival sb for the affection of a man or woman; to be jealous of a rival in a love affair | Xiehouyu |
| 欲擒故纵 欲擒故縱 | In order to capture, one must let loose.; to loosen the reins only to grasp them better | Xiehouyu |
| 明知故问 明知故問 | (idiom) to ask a question, already knowing the answer | Xiehouyu |
| 跟屁虫 跟屁蟲 | lit. bum beetle; sb who tags along; shadow; sycophant | Xiehouyu |
| 稀烂 稀爛 | smashed up; broken into pieces; thoroughly mashed; pulpy | Xiehouyu |
| 活得不耐烦 活得不耐煩 | to be tired of living; (coll.) to be asking for trouble | Xiehouyu |
| 高谈阔论 高談闊論 | to harangue; loud arrogant talk; to spout | Xiehouyu |
| 越陷越深 越陷越深 | to fall deeper and deeper (in debt, in love etc) | Xiehouyu |
| 别具一格 別具一格 | having a unique or distinctive style | Xiehouyu |
| 无理取闹 無理取鬧 | to make trouble without reason (idiom); to be deliberately provocative | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 一模一样 一模一樣 | exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng] | Xiehouyu |
| 不通 不通 | to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical | Xiehouyu |
| 高手 高手 | expert; past master; dab hand | Xiehouyu |
| 闺蜜 閨蜜 | (coll.) (a woman's) close female friend; bestie | Colloquialism |
| 渣男 渣男 | (coll.) jerk; scumbag (esp. in romantic relationships) | Colloquialism |
| 添乱 添亂 | (coll.) to cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience | Colloquialism |
| 死缠烂打 死纏爛打 | (coll.) to pester; to harass | Colloquialism |
| 皮痒 皮癢 | (coll.) to need a spanking | Colloquialism |
| 老娘 老孃 | my old mother; I, this old woman; my old lady (colloquial); maternal grandmother; midwife | Colloquialism |
| 麻利 麻利 | swift; agile; efficient; quick-witted (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 甭管 甭管 | (coll.) regardless of; no matter (where, who etc) | Colloquialism |
| 宰了 宰了 | (coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 泡汤 泡湯 | (coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing; to dawdle; to stall; (Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring bath | Colloquialism |
| 撑死 撐死 | full to the point of bursting; (coll.) at most | Colloquialism |
| 逆天 逆天 | (literary) to be in defiance of the natural order; (coll.) extraordinary; incredible | Colloquialism |
| 劲爆 勁爆 | (coll.) awesome; stunning; electrifying; breathtaking; (originally Cantonese); also pr. [jin4 bao4] | Colloquialism |
| 难伺候 難伺候 | (coll.) hard to please; high-maintenance | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 却是 卻是 | nevertheless; actually; the fact is ... | |
| 表面上 表面上 | outwardly; superficially; on the face of it | |
| 明德 明德 | highest virtue; illustrious virtue | |
| 赌注 賭注 | stake (in a gamble); (what is at) stake |