Vocabulary
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| 小户人家 小戶人家 | a humble household; a family of modest means (idiom) | Idiom |
| 百足之虫 百足之蟲 | lit. a centipede (with a hundred legs); fig. something with deep roots that does not collapse easily even when in trouble (idiom) | Idiom |
| 惊心动魄 驚心動魄 | (idiom) heart-stopping; hair-raising; breathtaking | Idiom |
| 一无所有 一無所有 | not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking; without two sticks to rub together | Idiom |
| 免不了 免不了 | unavoidable; can't be avoided | Xiehouyu |
| 公道 公道 | justice; fairness; public highway | Xiehouyu |
| 损 損 | to decrease; to lose; to damage; to harm; (coll.) to ridicule; to deride; (coll.) caustic; sarcastic; nasty; mean; one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨ | Colloquialism |
| 扯 扯 | to pull; to tear; (of cloth, thread etc) to buy; to chat; to gossip; (coll.) (Tw) ridiculous; hokey | Colloquialism |
| 珍重 珍重 | precious; extremely valuable; (honorific) Please take good care of yourself! | |
| 见外 見外 | to treat sb with the formal courtesy accorded to a host or a guest | |
| 文人 文人 | scholar; literati | |
| 纵然 縱然 | even if; even though | |
| 遗愿 遺願 | final wishes of the departed | |
| 要强 要強 | eager to excel; eager to get ahead in life; strong-minded | |
| 状元 狀元 | top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system); see 眼 and 花; top scorer in college entrance examination 考; (fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field; leading light | |
| 过半 過半 | over fifty percent; more than half | |
| 气馁 氣餒 | to be discouraged | |
| 劝阻 勸阻 | to advise against; to dissuade | |
| 能人 能人 | capable person; Homo habilis, extinct species of upright East African hominid | |
| 哀求 哀求 | to entreat; to implore; to plead | |
| 鲁莽 魯莽 | hot-headed; impulsive; reckless | |
| 叫好 叫好 | to applaud; to cheer | |
| 裂痕 裂痕 | crack; gap; split | |
| 歼灭 殲滅 | to wipe out; to crush; to annihilate | |
| 棋子 棋子 | chess piece; (fig.) a pawn (used by others for their own purposes) | |
| 告辞 告辭 | to say goodbye; to take one's leave | |
| 参见 參見 | to refer to; see also; compare (cf.); to pay respect to | |
| 胡闹 胡鬧 | to act willfully and make a scene; to make trouble | |
| 受苦 受苦 | to suffer hardship | |
| 上头 上頭 | (of alcohol) to go to one's head; (old) (of a bride-to-be) to bind one's hair into a bun; (of a prostitute) to receive a patron for the first time | |
| 分割 分割 | to cut up; to break up | |
| 心胸 心胸 | heart; mind; ambition; aspiration | |
| 轻视 輕視 | contempt; contemptuous; to despise; to scorn; scornful | |
| 性情 性情 | nature; temperament | |
| 无缘 無緣 | to have no opportunity; no way (of doing sth); no chance; no connection; not placed (in a competition); (in pop lyrics) no chance of love, no place to be together etc | |
| 往日 往日 | former days; the past | |
| 生机 生機 | opportunity to live; to reprieve from death; life force; vitality | |
| 反思 反思 | to think back over sth; to review; to revisit; to rethink; reflection; reassessment | |
| 安抚 安撫 | to placate; to pacify; to appease | |
| 多亏 多虧 | thanks to; luckily | |
| 恩怨 恩怨 | gratitude and grudges; resentment; grudges; grievances | |
| 转机 轉機 | (to take) a turn for the better; to change planes | |
| 疑虑 疑慮 | hesitation; misgivings; doubt | |
| 凭着 憑著 | relying on; on the basis of | |
| 振作 振作 | to bestir oneself; to pull oneself together; to cheer up; to uplift; to stimulate | |
| 分量 分量 | (vector) component | |
| 名气 名氣 | reputation; fame | |
| 玩弄 玩弄 | to play with; to toy with; to dally with; to engage in; to resort to | |
| 可谓 可謂 | it could even be said | |
| 天性 天性 | nature; innate tendency |