Nothing But Thirty
Episode review
Gu Jia Buys a Tea Factory and Starts Her Business
S1E17 · 顾佳拿下茶厂开始创业
Vocabulary
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| 约定俗成 約定俗成 | established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement; customary convention | Idiom |
| 理直气壮 理直氣壯 | in the right and self-confident (idiom); bold and confident with justice on one's side; to have the courage of one's convictions; just and forceful | Idiom |
| 泄气 洩氣 | to leak (gas); to be discouraged; to despair; (disparaging) pathetic; to vent one's anger; (of a tire) to be flat | Xiehouyu |
| 完蛋 完蛋 | (coll.) to be done for | Xiehouyu |
| 嫂子 嫂子 | (coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law | Colloquialism |
| 蹭 蹭 | to rub against; to walk slowly; (coll.) to freeload | Colloquialism |
| 耗 耗 | to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander; news; (coll.) to delay; to dilly-dally | Colloquialism |
| 嫦娥 嫦娥 | Chang'e, the lady in the moon (Chinese mythology); one of the Chang'e series of PRC lunar spacecraft | |
| 劳驾 勞駕 | excuse me | |
| 翻番 翻番 | to double; to increase by a certain number of times | |
| 刁难 刁難 | to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult; Taiwan pr. [diāo nán] | |
| 华裔 華裔 | ethnic Chinese; non-Chinese citizen of Chinese ancestry | |
| 喜事 喜事 | happy occasion; wedding | |
| 存心 存心 | deliberately | |
| 资历 資歷 | qualifications; experience; seniority | |
| 无故 無故 | without cause or reason | |
| 抵触 抵觸 | to conflict; to contradict | |
| 唯独 唯獨 | only; just (i.e. it is only that...); all except; unique | |
| 冤 冤 | injustice; grievance; wrong | |
| 委婉 委婉 | tactful; euphemistic; (of voice etc) suave; soft | |
| 得失 得失 | gains and losses; success and failure; merits and demerits | |
| 天分 天分 | natural gift; talent | |
| 接送 接送 | to pick up and drop off; to ferry back and forth | |
| 费劲 費勁 | to require effort; strenuous | |
| 交接 交接 | (of two things) to come into contact; to meet; to hand over to; to take over from; to associate with; to have friendly relations with; to have sexual intercourse | |
| 施压 施壓 | to pressure | |
| 厚道 厚道 | kind and honest; generous; sincere | |
| 反倒 反倒 | but on the contrary; but expectedly | |
| 反面 反面 | reverse side; backside; the other side (of a problem etc); negative; bad | |
| 裁员 裁員 | to cut staff; to lay off employees | |
| 夸大 誇大 | to exaggerate | |
| 僵 僵 | rigid; deadlock; stiff (corpse) | |
| 饭碗 飯碗 | rice bowl; fig. livelihood; job; way of making a living | |
| 暧昧 曖昧 | vague; ambiguous; equivocal; dubious | |
| 不算 不算 | to not calculate; to not count; to not be considered (as); to have no weight | |
| 雇主 僱主 | employer | |
| 听从 聽從 | to listen and obey; to comply with; to heed; to hearken | |
| 歌剧 歌劇 | Western opera | |
| 不肯 不肯 | Refuse | |
| 委屈 委屈 | to feel wronged; to cause sb to feel wronged; grievance | |
| 上任 上任 | to take office; previous (incumbent); predecessor | |
| 实地 實地 | on-site | |
| 不宜 不宜 | not suitable; inadvisable; inappropriate | |
| 讨好 討好 | to get the desired outcome; to win favor by fawning on sb; to curry favor with; a fruitful outcome to reward one's labor | |
| 掺 摻 | variant of 搀; to mix | |
| 好说 好說 | easy to deal with; not a problem; (polite answer) you flatter me | |
| 全力以赴 全力以赴 | to do at all costs; to make an all-out effort | |
| 不容 不容 | must not; cannot; to not allow; cannot tolerate | |
| 借用 借用 | to borrow sth for another use; to borrow an idea for one's own use | |
| 实体 實體 | entity; substance; thing that has a material existence (as opposed to a conceptual, virtual or online existence); the real thing (as opposed to an image or model of it) |