Vocabulary
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| 落 落 | to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind | |
| 翻 翻 | to turn over; to flip over; to overturn; to rummage through; to translate; to decode; to double; to climb over or into; to cross | |
| 传统 傳統 | tradition; traditional; convention; conventional | |
| 怪 怪 | bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather | |
| 战争 戰爭 | war; conflict | |
| 根 根 | root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry) | |
| 几乎 幾乎 | almost; nearly; practically | |
| 不管 不管 | not to be concerned; regardless of; no matter | |
| 首 首 | head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc | |
| 些 些 | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several | |
| 之前 之前 | before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand | |
| 作为 作為 | one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be | |
| 之后 之後 | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then | |
| 担心 擔心 | anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious | |
| 却 卻 | but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 死不瞑目 死不瞑目 | lit. not close one's eyes after dying (idiom); fig. to die with an unresolved grievance | Idiom |
| 土里土气 土裡土氣 | unsophisticated; rustic; uncouth | Xiehouyu |
| 没用 沒用 | useless | Xiehouyu |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | Colloquialism |
| 管 筦 | to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards | Colloquialism |
| 大马 大馬 | Malaysia | Proper Noun |
| 鸡汤 雞湯 | chicken stock; chicken soup; (fig.) chicken soup for the soul – i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives) | |
| 小叔 小叔 | husband's younger brother; brother-in-law | |
| 亲家 親家 | parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law; relatives by marriage | |
| 干嘛 幹嘛 | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? | |
| 乱跑 亂跑 | to run around all over the place | |
| 受够 受夠 | to have had enough of; to be fed up with; to have had one's fill of | |
| 有些人 有些人 | some people | |
| 糕点 糕點 | cakes; pastries | |
| 撮合 撮合 | to play matchmaker; to act as a middleman | |
| 亲事 親事 | marriage | |
| 不争气 不爭氣 | to be disappointing; to fail to live up to expectations | |
| 有空 有空 | to have time (to do sth) | |
| 绝不 絕不 | in no way; not in the least; absolutely not | |
| 该死 該死 | Damn it!; damned; wretched | |
| 步步 步步 | step by step; at every step | |
| 展 展 | open, unfold; stretch, extend | |
| 性子 性子 | temper | |
| 三代 三代 | three generations of a family; the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou) | |
| 灯火 燈火 | lights | |
| 香茅 香茅 | lemon grass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) | |
| 洛 洛 | river in Shanxi province; city | |
| 随你 隨你 | as you wish | |
| 马球 馬球 | polo | |
| 白费 白費 | to waste (one's energy etc) | |
| 心机 心機 | thinking; scheme | |
| 早日康复 早日康復 | to recover health quickly; Get well soon! | |
| 张开 張開 | to open up; to spread; to extend | |
| 认得 認得 | to recognize; to remember sth (or sb) on seeing it; to know |