Vocabulary
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| 操持 操持 | to manage; to handle | |
| 麻辣烫 麻辣燙 | hot spicy soup (often sold at street stalls) | |
| 厨娘 廚娘 | female cook | |
| 姨娘 姨娘 | maternal aunt; father's concubine (old) | |
| 猪狗不如 豬狗不如 | worse than a dog or pig; lower than low | |
| 家丁 家丁 | (old) servant hired to keep guard, run errands etc | |
| 素来 素來 | consistently; always (in the past and now) | |
| 贤能 賢能 | sage | |
| 办妥 辦妥 | to arrange; to settle; to complete; to carry through | |
| 拿捏 拿捏 | (lit. and fig.) to grasp; to control; (dialect) affecting shyness; coy; (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties; to threaten | |
| 足足 足足 | fully; no less than; as much as; extremely | |
| 磨叽 磨嘰 | (dialect) to dawdle; to waste time; also written | |
| 饶了 饒了 | to spare; to forgive | |
| 婶婶 嬸嬸 | wife of father's younger brother; aunt | |
| 奉劝 奉勸 | may I offer a bit of advice | |
| 白眼狼 白眼狼 | thankless wretch; an ingrate | |
| 宅子 宅子 | house; residence | |
| 享清福 享清福 | to live in ease and comfort | |
| 有道理 有道理 | to make sense; reasonable | |
| 口舌 口舌 | dispute or misunderstanding caused by gossip; to talk sb round | |
| 安身之处 安身之處 | 安: peaceful, tranquil, quiet · 身: body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158 · 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to · 处: place, locale; department | |
| 一亩三分地 一畝三分地 | a piece of land of 1.3 mu; (fig.) one's turf | |
| 痒痒 癢癢 | to itch; to tickle | |
| 偏要 偏要 | to insist on doing sth; must do it, despite everything | |
| 开矿 開礦 | to mine; to open a seam | |
| 大费周章 大費周章 | to take great pains; to go to a lot of trouble | |
| 龌龊 齷齪 | dirty; filthy; vile; despicable; (literary) narrow-minded; petty | |
| 捕快 捕快 | bailiff responsible for catching criminals (in imperial China) | |
| 歇业 歇業 | to close down (temporarily or permanently); to go out of business | |
| 瓦片 瓦片 | tile | |
| 不择手段 不擇手段 | by fair means or foul; by hook or by crook; unscrupulously | |
| 岁数 歲數 | age (number of years old) | |
| 出面 出面 | to appear personally; to step in; to step forth; to show up | |
| 强盗 強盜 | to rob (with force); bandit; robber | |
| 往后 往後 | from now on; in the future; time to come | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 亲眼 親眼 | with one's own eyes; personally | |
| 矿 礦 | mineral deposit; ore deposit; ore; a mine | |
| 横 橫 | horizontal; across; crosswise; horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters); to place (sth) flat (on a surface); to cross (a river, etc); in a jumble; chaotic; (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable; violent | |
| 此事 此事 | this matter | |
| 孤儿 孤兒 | orphan | |
| 欺负 欺負 | to bully | |
| 放手 放手 | to let go one's hold; to give up; to have a free hand | |
| 咋 咋 | dialectal equivalent of 怎么 | |
| 狠 狠 | ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; to harden (one's heart); old variant of 很 | |
| 一时 一時 | a period of time; a while; for a short while; temporary; momentary; at the same time | |
| 田 田 | field; farm | |
| 界 界 | (bound form) boundary; border; (bound form) realm | |
| 原谅 原諒 | to excuse; to forgive; to pardon | |
| 不见 不見 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing |