Vocabulary
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| 帮凶 幫兇 | variant of | Xiehouyu |
| 受宠若惊 受寵若驚 | overwhelmed by favor from superior (humble expr.) | 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 |
| 原原本本 原原本本 | from beginning to end; in its entirety; in accord with fact; literal | Xiehouyu |
| 兜圈子 兜圈子 | to encircle; to go around; to circle; to beat about the bush | Xiehouyu |
| 拔尖 拔尖 | top-notch (colloquial); to push oneself to the front | Xiehouyu |
| 死到临头 死到臨頭 | Death is near at hand. (idiom) | Xiehouyu |
| 腹背受敌 腹背受敵 | (idiom) to be attacked from the front and rear | 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 |
| 事出有因 事出有因 | 事: affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident · 出: go out, send out; stand; produce · 有: have, own, possess; exist · 因: cause, reason; by; because (of) | Xiehouyu |
| 扎扎实实 扎扎實實 | firm; solid; reliable; real; practical | Xiehouyu |
| 装聋作哑 裝聾作啞 | to play deaf-mute | Xiehouyu |
| 后患无穷 後患無窮 | (idiom) there will be no end of trouble in the future | Xiehouyu |
| 甘拜下风 甘拜下風 | to step down gracefully (humble expression); to concede defeat; to play second fiddle | Xiehouyu |
| 胡搅蛮缠 胡攪蠻纏 | (idiom) to pester endlessly | Xiehouyu |
| 心狠手辣 心狠手辣 | (idiom) vicious; merciless | Xiehouyu |
| 假正经 假正經 | demure; prudish; hypocritical | Xiehouyu |
| 劳而无功 勞而無功 | to work hard while accomplishing little; to toil to no avail | Xiehouyu |
| 恶人先告状 惡人先告狀 | the guilty party files the suit; the thief cries thief | Xiehouyu |
| 不是滋味 不是滋味 | to be upset; to feel disgusted | Xiehouyu |
| 蒙混过关 矇混過關 | to get away with it; to slip through; to bluff one's way out; Taiwan pr. [meng1 hun4 guo4 guan1] | Xiehouyu |
| 不白之冤 不白之冤 | unrighted wrong; unredressed injustice | 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 |
| 添乱 添亂 | (coll.) to cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience | Colloquialism |
| 兴许 興許 | (coll.) perhaps | Colloquialism |
| 老娘 老孃 | my old mother; I, this old woman; my old lady (colloquial); maternal grandmother; midwife | Colloquialism |
| 后娘 後娘 | stepmother (coll.) | Colloquialism |
| 命根 命根 | lifeblood; the thing that one cherishes most in life; (coll.) family jewels (male genitals) | Colloquialism |
| 整治 整治 | to bring under control; to regulate; to restore to good condition; (coll.) to fix (a person); to prepare (a meal etc) | 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 ... | |
| 表面上 表面上 | outwardly; superficially; on the face of it | |
| 指着 指著 | Poke | |
| 殿下 殿下 | Your Highness | |
| 陛下 陛下 | Your Majesty | |
| 娘娘 娘娘 | queen; empress; imperial concubine; Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West; mother; aunt | |
| 宗主 宗主 | head of a clan; natural leader; person of prestige and authority in a domain; suzerain | |
| 臣妾 臣妾 | (literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female); (archaic) male and female slaves; subjects (of a ruler) | |
| 皇子 皇子 | prince | |
| 进宫 進宮 | to enter the emperor's palace; (slang) to go to jail | |
| 有何 有何 | what is there | |
| 皇太后 皇太后 | empress dowager |