Vocabulary
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| 丝 絲 | silk; thread; trace; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a thread (of cloud, smoke etc), a bit, an iota, a hint (of sth) etc | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 则 則 | (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items | |
| 未 未 | not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
| 及 及 | and; to reach; up to; in time for | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 坐以待毙 坐以待斃 | to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate | Idiom |
| 贪得无厌 貪得無厭 | avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied | Idiom |
| 义无反顾 義無反顧 | honor does not allow one to glance back (idiom); duty-bound not to turn back; no surrender; to pursue justice with no second thoughts | Idiom |
| 另起炉灶 另起爐灶 | lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch; back to square one; to start of on a new path | Idiom |
| 先发制人 先發制人 | (idiom) to gain the initiative by striking first; to preempt | Idiom |
| 远见卓识 遠見卓識 | visionary and sagacious (idiom) | Idiom |
| 草木皆兵 草木皆兵 | lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy; to feel beleaguered | Idiom |
| 顺手牵羊 順手牽羊 | lit. to lead away a goat while passing by (idiom); fig. to opportunistically pocket sb's possessions and walk off | Idiom |
| 斤斤计较 斤斤計較 | to haggle over every ounce; (fig.) to fuss over minor matters; to split hairs | Idiom |
| 咬牙切齿 咬牙切齒 | (idiom) to gnash one's teeth; to fume with rage | Idiom |
| 上吐下泻 上吐下瀉 | to vomit and have diarrhea | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 庄稼人 莊稼人 | (coll.) farmer | Colloquialism |
| 剥皮 剝皮 | to skin; to flay; to peel; (fig.) (coll.) to haul (sb) over the coals; also pr. [bo1pi2] | Colloquialism |
| 不赖 不賴 | (coll.) not bad; good; fine | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 悬赏 懸賞 | to offer a reward; bounty | |
| 铺子 鋪子 | store; shop | |
| 爹娘 爹孃 | (dialect) parents | |
| 饶命 饒命 | to spare sb's life | |
| 俗人 俗人 | common people; laity (i.e. not priests) | |
| 清点 清點 | to check; to make inventory | |
| 胭脂 胭脂 | rouge | |
| 大蒜 大蒜 | garlic | |
| 腹痛 腹痛 | bellyache; stomach pain | |
| 查清 查清 | to find out; to ascertain; to get to the bottom of; to clarify | |
| 时辰 時辰 | two-hour period | |
| 娘子 娘子 | (dialect) form of address for one's wife; polite form of address for a woman | |
| 市井 市井 | marketplace; town; the street (urban milieu); the haunts of the common people | |
| 颇为 頗為 | rather; quite | |
| 姨妹 姨妹 | wife's younger sister; sister-in-law | |
| 恶气 惡氣 | evil smell; resentment; unpleasant manner | |
| 许诺 許諾 | promise; pledge | |
| 赋闲 賦閒 | to stay idle at home; to have resigned from office; to be unemployed; to have been fired; to be on a sabbatical | |
| 不咋的 不咋的 | (dialect) not that great; not up to much; nothing special | |
| 清炖 清燉 | to stew meat without seasoning | |
| 少安毋躁 少安毋躁 | keep calm, don't get excited; don't be impatient | |
| 弄清 弄清 | to clarify; to fully understand | |
| 郎中 郎中 | doctor (Chinese medicine); ancient official title; companions (respectful) | |
| 垂危 垂危 | close to death; life-threatening (illness) | |
| 莫慌 莫慌 | don't panic | |
| 重症 重症 | acute (of medical condition); grave |