Vocabulary
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| 敬茶 敬茶 | to serve tea (to guests) | |
| 藏拙 藏拙 | avoiding doing something that one is clumsy at to save face | |
| 吉兆 吉兆 | lucky omen | |
| 挖空 挖空 | to excavate; to hollow | |
| 屏退 屏退 | to send away; to dismiss (servants etc); to retire from public life | |
| 鸣不平 鳴不平 | to cry out against injustice; to protest unfairness | |
| 学而时习之 學而時習之 | 学: learning, knowledge; school · 而: and; and then; and yet; but · 时: time, season; era, age, period · 习: practice; flapping wings · 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to | |
| 嗜酒如命 嗜酒如命 | to love wine as one's life (idiom); fond of the bottle | |
| 接风洗尘 接風洗塵 | 接: receive; continue; catch; connect · 风: wind; air; manners, atmosphere · 洗: wash, rinse; clean, purify · 尘: dust, dirt, ashes, cinders | |
| 浣纱 浣紗 | to wash silk | |
| 恍然 恍然 | suddenly (perceive); confused; vague; distracted | |
| 挨饿受冻 挨餓受凍 | (idiom) to go cold and hungry | |
| 抵账 抵賬 | to repay a debt in kind or by labor | |
| 夜壶 夜壺 | chamber pot | |
| 浑圆 渾圓 | perfectly round; (fig.) accommodating; considerate; smooth (way of doing things) | |
| 墨渍 墨漬 | ink stain; ink blot; spot; smudge | |
| 砍伐 砍伐 | to hew; to cut down | |
| 独往独来 獨往獨來 | 独: alone, single, solitary, only · 往: go, depart; past, formerly · 独: alone, single, solitary, only · 来: come, coming; return, returning | |
| 怪模怪样 怪模怪樣 | outlandish; strange-looking; grotesque | |
| 盛况 盛況 | grand occasion | |
| 条贯 條貫 | (literary) systematic arrangement; coherent presentation | |
| 情夫 情夫 | married woman's lover | |
| 撬动 撬動 | to shift sth with a crowbar etc; (fig.) to influence by applying leverage | |
| 拔火罐 拔火罐 | (TCM) to cup; to give a cupping treatment; short detachable stove chimney used to help draw fire | |
| 逆运 逆運 | bad luck; unlucky fate | |
| 灌注 灌注 | to pour into; perfusion (med.); to concentrate one's attention on; to teach; to inculcate; to instill | |
| 冷峻 冷峻 | grave and stern | |
| 要端 要端 | the main points | |
| 贫瘠 貧瘠 | barren; infertile; poor | |
| 伏罪 伏罪 | variant of | |
| 推杯换盏 推杯換盞 | (idiom) to drink together in a convivial atmosphere | |
| 译本 譯本 | translation (translated version of a text) | |
| 丝毫不差 絲毫不差 | accurate to perfection (idiom); precise to the finest detail | |
| 炫技 炫技 | to show off one's skills; to put on a dazzling display of one's talents | |
| 赌约 賭約 | bet; wager | |
| 后发制人 後發制人 | 后: queen, empress, sovereign; (simp. for · 发: issue, dispatch, send out; hair · 制: system; establish; overpower · 人: man; people; mankind; someone else | |
| 落于下风 落於下風 | to be at a disadvantage | |
| 盈门 盈門 | lit. fill the door; fill the house (at a wedding or auspicious occasion) | |
| 制式 制式 | standardized; standard (service, method etc); regulation (clothing etc); formulaic; (telecommunications etc) system; format (e.g. the PAL or NTSC systems for TV signals) | |
| 溅开 濺開 | splash | |
| 灰泥 灰泥 | plaster; mortar | |
| 灵塔 靈塔 | memorial pagoda | |
| 夜消 夜消 | variant of | |
| 肺脏 肺臟 | lungs | |
| 气虚 氣虛 | deficiency of (TCM) | |
| 初创 初創 | startup (company, phase etc); newly established | |
| 弹丸 彈丸 | pellet | |
| 誓师 誓師 | to vow before one's troops | |
| 爆裂 爆裂 | to rupture; to burst; to explode | |
| 便桥 便橋 | temporary bridge |