Vocabulary
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| 绝配 絕配 | perfect match | |
| 补足 補足 | to bring up to full strength; to make up a deficiency; to fill (a vacancy, gap etc) | |
| 一把屎一把尿 一把屎一把尿 | to have endured all sorts of hardships (to raise one's children) (idiom) | |
| 半条命 半條命 | half a life; only half alive; barely alive; (scared, beaten etc) half to death | |
| 螳螂捕蝉 螳螂捕蟬 | the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi); to pursue a narrow gain while neglecting a greater danger | |
| 缘何 緣何 | why?; for what reason? | |
| 戴罪立功 戴罪立功 | 戴: wear on top; support · 罪: crime, sin, vice; evil; hardship · 立: stand; let stand; establish, set · 功: achievement, merit, good result | |
| 挨揍 捱揍 | to be beaten; to take a drubbing; buffeted; knocked about | |
| 冻僵 凍僵 | frozen stiff; numb with cold | |
| 离群索居 離群索居 | 离: rare beast; strange; elegant · 群: (same as · 索: large rope, cable; rules, laws; to demand, to exact; to search, inquire; isolated · 居: live, dwell, reside, sit | |
| 挖开 挖開 | to dig into; to cut a mine into | |
| 瓦片 瓦片 | tile | |
| 发梢 髮梢 | hair ends | |
| 新出炉 新出爐 | fresh out of the oven; fig. novelty just announced; recently made available | |
| 横梁 橫梁 | beam | |
| 潜质 潛質 | potential | |
| 印堂 印堂 | the part of the forehead between the eyebrows; yintang, acupuncture point at the midpoint between the medial ends of the eyebrows | |
| 吃霸王餐 吃霸王餐 | to dine and dash; to leave without paying | |
| 通缉犯 通緝犯 | wanted criminal; fugitive (from the law) | |
| 咋呼 咋呼 | bluster; ruckus; to boast loudly | |
| 窑子 窯子 | (old) low-grade brothel | |
| 夸下海口 誇下海口 | to boast; to talk big | |
| 经络 經絡 | energy channels; meridian (TCM); (dialect) trick; tactic | |
| 不止一次 不止一次 | many times; on more than one occasion | |
| 遮蔽 遮蔽 | to cover; to hide from view; to obstruct or block; defilade (military) | |
| 岂料 豈料 | who would have thought that; who would have expected that | |
| 公审 公審 | public trial (in a court of law) | |
| 长见识 長見識 | to gain knowledge and experience | |
| 黄泉之下 黃泉之下 | 黄: yellow; surname · 泉: spring, fountain; wealth, money · 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to · 下: under, underneath, below; down; inferior; bring down | |
| 揣在怀里 揣在懷裡 | to tuck into one's bosom | |
| 杂物 雜物 | junk; items of no value; various bits and bobs | |
| 吸入 吸入 | to breathe in; to suck in; to inhale | |
| 偏安 偏安 | content to hold a small part of the territory; fig. forced to relinquish the middle ground; forced to move away | |
| 自成一格 自成一格 | 自: self, private, personal; from · 成: completed, finished, fixed · 一: one; a, an; alone · 格: pattern, standard, form; style | |
| 清炖 清燉 | to stew meat without seasoning | |
| 积存 積存 | to stockpile | |
| 置放 置放 | to put; to place | |
| 漫不经心 漫不經心 | careless; heedless; absent-minded; indifferent | |
| 赤陶 赤陶 | terracotta; terra cotta | |
| 杂草 雜草 | weeds | |
| 头纱 頭紗 | wedding veil; gauze headscarf or veil | |
| 详解 詳解 | to explain in detail; detailed answer; full solution (to a math problem) | |
| 辞别 辭別 | to bid farewell (to); to say goodbye (to) | |
| 分岔 分岔 | bifurcation | |
| 苦功 苦功 | hard work; laborious effort; painstaking work | |
| 翻搅 翻攪 | to stir up; to turn over | |
| 浑身解数 渾身解數 | to give it your all; to go at it with all you've got; to throw your whole weight behind it; also pr. [hun2 shen1 jie3 shu4] | |
| 绞痛 絞痛 | sharp pain; cramp; griping pain; colic; angina, cf 心絞痛|心绞痛 | |
| 墓道 墓道 | path leading to a grave; tomb passage; aisle leading to the coffin chamber of an ancient tomb | |
| 循着 循著 | to follow |