Vocabulary
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| 捣鬼 搗鬼 | to play tricks; to cause mischief | Xiehouyu |
| 有余 有餘 | to have an abundance | Xiehouyu |
| 同归于尽 同歸於盡 | to die in such a way that sb (or sth) else also perishes; to take sb down with oneself; to end in mutual destruction | Xiehouyu |
| 吃不消 吃不消 | to be unable to tolerate or endure; to find sth difficult to manage | Xiehouyu |
| 大功告成 大功告成 | successfully accomplished (project or goal); to be highly successful | Xiehouyu |
| 一家之主 一家之主 | master of the house; head of the family | Xiehouyu |
| 自作主张 自作主張 | (idiom) to act on one's own; to decide for oneself | Xiehouyu |
| 装模作样 裝模作樣 | (idiom) to put on an act; to show affectation; to indulge in histrionics | Xiehouyu |
| 双喜临门 雙喜臨門 | two simultaneous happy events in the family | 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 |
| 有情人 有情人 | lovers | Xiehouyu |
| 明知故问 明知故問 | (idiom) to ask a question, already knowing the answer | Xiehouyu |
| 虚情假意 虛情假意 | false friendship; hypocritical show of affection | Xiehouyu |
| 独吞 獨吞 | to hog; to keep everything for oneself | Xiehouyu |
| 虚惊 虛驚 | false alarm; panic rumor | Xiehouyu |
| 苦不堪言 苦不堪言 | to suffer unspeakable misery; indescribably painful; hellish | Xiehouyu |
| 欺上瞒下 欺上瞞下 | 欺: cheat, double-cross, deceive · 上: top; superior, highest; go up, send up · 瞒: deceive, lie; eyes half-closed · 下: under, underneath, below; down; inferior; bring down | Xiehouyu |
| 聪明反被聪明误 聰明反被聰明誤 | (idiom) a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity; cleverness may overreach itself; too smart for one's own good | Xiehouyu |
| 因循守旧 因循守舊 | (idiom) to continue in the same old rut; diehard conservative attitudes | Xiehouyu |
| 顽固不化 頑固不化 | 顽: obstinate, stubborn; recalcitrant · 固: to become solid, solidify; strength · 不: no, not; un-; negative prefix · 化: change, convert, reform; -ize | 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 |
| 悬 懸 | to hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement; unresolved; baseless; without foundation | Xiehouyu |
| 同行 同行 | person of the same profession; of the same trade, occupation or industry | Xiehouyu |
| 高手 高手 | expert; past master; dab hand | Xiehouyu |
| 带歪 帶歪 | (coll.) to lead astray | Colloquialism |
| 添乱 添亂 | (coll.) to cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience | Colloquialism |
| 麻利 麻利 | swift; agile; efficient; quick-witted (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 手筋 手筋 | flexor tendon (coll.); tesuji (a skillful move in the game of Go) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 手筋 "tesuji") | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 雷 雷 | thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | 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 ... | |
| 试炼 試煉 | to refine with fire | |
| 远征 遠征 | an expedition, esp. military; march to remote regions | |
| 解药 解藥 | antidote | |
| 姨娘 姨娘 | maternal aunt; father's concubine (old) | |
| 细作 細作 | (old) spy; secret agent | |
| 清风 清風 | cool breeze; fig. pure and honest | |
| 爹爹 爹爹 | daddy; granddad | |
| 审问 審問 | to interrogate; to examine; to question | |
| 月宫 月宮 | Palace in the Moon (in folk tales) | |
| 剧毒 劇毒 | highly toxic; extremely poisonous | |
| 地牢 地牢 | prison; dungeon | |
| 寒鸦 寒鴉 | (bird species of China) western jackdaw; Eurasian jackdaw (Coloeus monedula) | |
| 解毒 解毒 | to detoxify; to relieve fever (in Chinese medicine) | |
| 祠堂 祠堂 | ancestral hall; memorial hall | |
| 云雀 雲雀 | (bird species of China) Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis) |