Vocabulary
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| 私盐 私鹽 | illegally-traded salt (with salt tax not paid) | |
| 舅爷 舅爺 | father's maternal uncle; granduncle | |
| 诓骗 誆騙 | to defraud; to swindle | |
| 遭 遭 | encounter, suffer | |
| 婶 嬸 | wife of father's younger brother | |
| 鬼天气 鬼天氣 | awful weather | |
| 做鬼 做鬼 | to play tricks; to cheat; to get up to mischief; to become a ghost; to give up the ghost | |
| 臊眉耷眼 臊眉耷眼 | (dialect) ashamed | |
| 抢走 搶走 | to snatch (esp related to a robbery) | |
| 柱 柱 | pillar, post; support; lean on | |
| 何 何 | what (literary) | |
| 仁 仁 | humaneness, benevolence, kindness | |
| 老爷 老爺 | master, sir | |
| 田地 田地 | field; farmland; cropland; plight; extent | |
| 互惠 互惠 | mutual benefit; mutually beneficial; reciprocal | |
| 卖价 賣價 | selling price | |
| 闭嘴 閉嘴 | Shut up!; same as 閉上嘴巴|闭上嘴巴 | |
| 器具 器具 | implement; utensil; equipment | |
| 和食 和食 | Japanese cuisine | |
| 弟兄们 弟兄們 | brothers; comrades; men; brethren | |
| 理应 理應 | should; ought to | |
| 唱戏 唱戲 | to perform in opera | |
| 贩 販 | peddler, hawker, street merchant | |
| 插不上手 插不上手 | to be unable to intervene | |
| 遣 遣 | send, dispatch; send off, exile | |
| 掌 掌 | palm of hand, sole of foot, paw | |
| 入行 入行 | to enter a profession | |
| 私交 私交 | personal friendship | |
| 甚 甚 | what (literary, = 什么) | |
| 婚宴 婚宴 | wedding reception | |
| 旁人 旁人 | other people; bystanders; onlookers; outsiders | |
| 水灾 水災 | flood; flood damage | |
| 灾害 災害 | calamity; disaster | |
| 有毒 有毒 | poisonous | |
| 先前 先前 | before; previously | |
| 挣钱 掙錢 | to make money | |
| 人力 人力 | manpower; labor power | |
| 歇 歇 | to rest; to take a break; to stop; to halt; (dialect) to sleep; a moment; a short while | |
| 交代 交代 | to transfer (duties to sb else); to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth); to explain; to give an account; to brief; to confess; to account for oneself; (jocular) to come to a bad end | |
| 再也 再也 | (not) any more | |
| 面子 面子 | outer surface; the outside of sth; social prestige; face | |
| 偶然 偶然 | incidentally; occasional; occasionally; by chance; randomly | |
| 犹豫 猶豫 | to hesitate | |
| 客气 客氣 | polite; courteous; formal; modest | |
| 挣 掙 | used in 挣扎 | |
| 一下子 一下子 | in a short while; all at once; all of a sudden | |
| 倒是 倒是 | contrary to what one might expect; actually; contrariwise; why don't you | |
| 广 广 | "house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc | |
| 买卖 買賣 | buying and selling; business; business transactions | |
| 虎 虎 | tiger |