Vocabulary
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| 轻徭薄税 輕徭薄稅 | 轻: light; easy, simple; gentle · 徭: conscript labor, compulsory labor · 薄: thin, slight, weak; poor, stingy · 税: taxes | Idiom |
| 层出不穷 層出不窮 | more and more emerge; innumerable succession; breeding like flies (idiom) | Idiom |
| 没辙 沒轍 | at one's wit's end; unable to find a way out | Xiehouyu |
| 不理 不理 | to refuse to acknowledge; to pay no attention to; to take no notice of; to ignore | Xiehouyu |
| 空虚 空虛 | hollow; emptiness; meaningless | Xiehouyu |
| 逗 逗 | to tease (playfully); to entice; (coll.) to joke; (coll.) funny; amusing; to stay; to sojourn; brief pause at the end of a phrase (variant of 读) | Colloquialism |
| 娘 娘 | mother; young lady; (coll.) effeminate | Colloquialism |
| 顾不上 顧不上 | cannot attend to or manage | |
| 酒楼 酒樓 | restaurant | |
| 孝敬 孝敬 | to show filial respect; to give presents (to one's elders or superiors); to support one's aged parents | |
| 跟上 跟上 | to catch up with; to keep pace with | |
| 出息 出息 | to yield interest, profit etc; to exhale (Buddhism) | |
| 利索 利索 | nimble | |
| 赔钱 賠錢 | to lose money; to pay for damages | |
| 缴纳 繳納 | to pay (taxes etc) | |
| 友人 友人 | friend | |
| 转眼 轉眼 | in a flash; in the blink of an eye; to glance | |
| 经商 經商 | to trade; to carry out commercial activities; in business | |
| 过问 過問 | to show an interest in; to get involved with | |
| 发愁 發愁 | to worry; to fret; to be anxious; to become sad | |
| 稀罕 稀罕 | rare; uncommon; rare thing; rarity; to value as a rarity; to cherish; Taiwan pr. [xī hǎn] | |
| 清静 清靜 | quiet; peaceful and quiet | |
| 顶多 頂多 | at most; at best | |
| 庄稼 莊稼 | farm crop | |
| 瞅 瞅 | (dialect) to look at | |
| 费劲 費勁 | to require effort; strenuous | |
| 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 | |
| 长辈 長輩 | one's elders; older generation | |
| 拖欠 拖欠 | in arrears; behind in payments; to default on one's debts | |
| 比起 比起 | compared with | |
| 媳妇 媳婦 | daughter-in-law; wife (of a younger man); young married woman; young woman | |
| 日后 日後 | sometime; someday (in the future) | |
| 别看 別看 | don't be fooled by the fact that | |
| 伺候 伺候 | to serve; to wait upon | |
| 颁布 頒布 | to issue; to proclaim; to enact (laws, decrees etc) | |
| 蒜 蒜 | garlic | |
| 趁着 趁著 | while | |
| 搓 搓 | to rub or roll between the hands or fingers; to twist | |
| 难关 難關 | difficulty; crisis | |
| 不算 不算 | to not calculate; to not count; to not be considered (as); to have no weight | |
| 酝酿 醞釀 | (of alcohol) to ferment; (of a crisis) to be brewing; to mull over (an issue); to hold exploratory discussions | |
| 不愧 不愧 | to be worthy of; to deserve to be called; to prove oneself to be | |
| 可谓 可謂 | it could even be said | |
| 数额 數額 | amount; sum of money; fixed number | |
| 胆子 膽子 | courage; nerve; guts | |
| 手头 手頭 | on hand; at hand; one's financial situation | |
| 渡过 渡過 | to cross over; to pass through | |
| 亩 畝 | classifier for fields; unit of area equal to one fifteenth of a hectare | |
| 筋 筋 | muscle; tendon; veins visible under the skin; sth resembling tendons or veins (e.g. fiber in a vegetable) | |
| 咽 咽 | throat; pharynx; narrow pass |