Vocabulary
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| 情况 情況 | circumstances; state of affairs; situation | |
| 世界 世界 | world | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 所 所 | actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive | |
| 并 並 | and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to merge | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 低三下四 低三下四 | servile | Idiom |
| 不闻不问 不聞不問 | not to hear, not to question (idiom); to show no interest in sth; uncritical; not in the least concerned | Idiom |
| 出人头地 出人頭地 | to stand out among one's peers (idiom); to excel | Idiom |
| 鼎鼎大名 鼎鼎大名 | famous; celebrated | Idiom |
| 白头到老 白頭到老 | (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss; until death do us part | Idiom |
| 班门弄斧 班門弄斧 | to display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom) | Idiom |
| 风吹草动 風吹草動 | lit. grass stirring in the wind (idiom); fig. the slightest whiff of trouble | Idiom |
| 没日没夜 沒日沒夜 | day and night; regardless of the time of day or night | Idiom |
| 数一数二 數一數二 | (idiom) reckoned to be best or second best; one of the very best; (idiom) to list one by one | Idiom |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 不要脸 不要臉 | to have no sense of shame; shameless | Xiehouyu |
| 拉倒 拉倒 | (coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go; to pull down | Xiehouyu |
| 三长两短 三長兩短 | unexpected misfortune; unexpected accident; sudden death | Xiehouyu |
| 草包 草包 | bag made of woven straw; bag filled with straw; (fig.) a good-for-nothing; clumsy oaf | Xiehouyu |
| 毛手毛脚 毛手毛腳 | carelessly and haphazardly; to paw; to grope; to get fresh | Xiehouyu |
| 见不得人 見不得人 | shameful | Xiehouyu |
| 玩完 玩完 | (coll.) to end in failure; to come to grief; to bite the dust | Xiehouyu |
| 肉包子打狗 肉包子打狗 | lit. to fling a meat bun at a dog (idiom); fig. to flush (one's money or efforts) down the toilet; to kiss sth goodbye | Xiehouyu |
| 响当当 響噹噹 | resounding; loud; well known; famous | Xiehouyu |
| 吃里爬外 吃裡爬外 | to work against the interests of sb one derives support from; to double-cross one's employer; to bite the hand that feeds you | Xiehouyu |
| 没完没了 沒完沒了 | without end; incessantly; on and on | Xiehouyu |
| 难看 難看 | ugly; unsightly | Xiehouyu |
| 难受 難受 | to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear | Xiehouyu |
| 难过 難過 | to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult | Xiehouyu |
| 正好 正好 | just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 姐夫 姐夫 | (coll.) older sister's husband | Colloquialism |
| 老头子 老頭子 | (coll.) old man; (said of an aging husband) my old man | Colloquialism |
| 要脸 要臉 | (coll.) to have a sense of shame | Colloquialism |
| 丫头片子 丫頭片子 | (coll.) silly girl; little girl | Colloquialism |
| 接头 接頭 | connector; joint; coupling; (coll.) to contact; to get in touch with; to have knowledge of; to be familiar with | Colloquialism |
| 这年头 這年頭 | (coll.) nowadays | Colloquialism |
| 狗狗 狗狗 | (coll.) dog; doggie | Colloquialism |
| 你个头 你個頭 | (coll.) my ass!; yeah, right! (used to mock a claim sb just made, as in "expert", my ass!) | Colloquialism |