Vocabulary
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| 商议 商議 | to negotiate; discussion; proposal | |
| 家公 家公 | head of a family; (polite) my father; (polite) my grandfather; your esteemed father | |
| 脊梁骨 脊樑骨 | backbone | |
| 媳妇儿 媳婦兒 | erhua variant of | |
| 善人 善人 | philanthropist; charitable person; well-doer | |
| 性命攸关 性命攸關 | vitally important; a matter of life and death | |
| 饶舌 饒舌 | talkative; to blather; to shoot one's mouth off; rap (genre of music) | |
| 杂碎 雜碎 | offal; cooked minced offal; chop suey (American Chinese dish); incoherent (information); (derog.) asshat; jerk | |
| 闲杂 閑雜 | (employee) having no fixed duties | |
| 捕头 捕頭 | constable | |
| 时辰 時辰 | two-hour period | |
| 败露 敗露 | (of a plot etc) to fall through and stand exposed | |
| 豺狼 豺狼 | jackal and wolf; ravenous wolf; fig. evil person; vicious tyrant | |
| 温文儒雅 溫文儒雅 | 温: lukewarm · 文: literature, culture, writing · 儒: Confucian scholar · 雅: elegant, graceful, refined | |
| 假扮 假扮 | to impersonate; to act the part of sb; to disguise oneself as sb else | |
| 衙役 衙役 | bailiff of feudal yamen | |
| 越轨 越軌 | to run off the track; to step out of line; to overstep the bounds of propriety | |
| 这般 這般 | in this way | |
| 白跑一趟 白跑一趟 | to go on an errand for nothing; to go on a wild-goose chase | |
| 拨弄 撥弄 | to move to and fro (with hand, foot, stick etc); to fiddle with; to stir up | |
| 拨浪鼓 撥浪鼓 | rattle drum; pellet drum – a hand drum with two pellets attached to strings on either side, mounted on a rod that is twirled to make the pellets strike the drum (used in ritual music, as a children's toy or as a street vendor's noisemaker) | |
| 岂不 豈不 | how couldn't...?; wouldn't it...? | |
| 可欺 可欺 | gullible; easily bullied; weak | |
| 娘的 孃的 | same as | |
| 何事 何事 | what matter | |
| 不舒服 不舒服 | unwell; feeling ill; to feel uncomfortable; uneasy | |
| 相助 相助 | help | |
| 有何 有何 | what is there | |
| 砍刀 砍刀 | machete | |
| 撒腿 撒腿 | to take to one's heels; to scram | |
| 险境 險境 | critical circumstances; risky conditions; danger zone | |
| 卖命 賣命 | to work tirelessly; to give one's all; to slave away; to throw away one's life; to sacrifice oneself (usu. for an unworthy cause) | |
| 足足 足足 | fully; no less than; as much as; extremely | |
| 顺道 順道 | on the way | |
| 一程 一程 | a journey | |
| 丧事 喪事 | funeral arrangements | |
| 惊扰 驚擾 | to alarm; to agitate | |
| 怪罪 怪罪 | to blame | |
| 顾全 顧全 | to give careful consideration to; to display thoughtfulness towards | |
| 传扬 傳揚 | to spread (by word of mouth) | |
| 嫁娶 嫁娶 | marriage | |
| 再犯 再犯 | to re-offend; repeat offender; recidivist | |
| 迷魂药 迷魂藥 | magic potion; (fig.) bewitching words or actions; knockout drug; ecstasy; MDMA | |
| 掏出 掏出 | to fish out; to take out (from a pocket, bag etc) | |
| 奉还 奉還 | to return with thanks; to give back (honorific) | |
| 君子动口不动手 君子動口不動手 | a gentleman uses his mouth and not his fist | |
| 聘礼 聘禮 | betrothal gift | |
| 叮咛 叮嚀 | to warn; to urge; to exhort; to give instructions carefully and insistently | |
| 出嫁 出嫁 | to get married (of woman) | |
| 侄女 姪女 | brother's daughter; niece |