Vocabulary
Filter the words you want to study before watching.
| 新建 新建 | new construction; newly built | |
| 车马 車馬 | vehicles and horses | |
| 死板 死板 | rigid; inflexible | |
| 面相 面相 | facial features; appearence; physiognomy | |
| 举火 舉火 | (literary) to light a fire | |
| 山羊 山羊 | goat; (gymnastics) small-sized vaulting horse | |
| 发力 發力 | to exert oneself; to apply force; (of an enterprise etc) to gain momentum; to perform strongly | |
| 小指 小指 | little finger | |
| 瞑目 瞑目 | to close one's eyes; (fig.) to be contented at the time of one's death (Dying without closing one's eyes would signify having unresolved grievances.) | |
| 大转 大轉 | to turn left (Shanghainese) | |
| 支开 支開 | to send (sb) away; to change the subject; to open (an umbrella etc) | |
| 自得 自得 | contented; pleased with one's position | |
| 老旧 老舊 | outmoded; old-fashioned | |
| 世世代代 世世代代 | for many generations | |
| 爷们 爺們 | menfolk (collective term for men of different generations); husbands and their fathers etc | |
| 系数 係數 | coefficient; factor; modulus; ratio | |
| 亲耳 親耳 | with one's own ears | |
| 音 音 | sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation | |
| 麦 麥 | wheat, barley, oats; simplified form of KangXi radical number 199 | |
| 无后 無後 | (literary) to have no descendants; to have no son to continue one's lineage | |
| 简 簡 | simple, terse, succinct, a letter | |
| 双眼 雙眼 | the two eyes | |
| 动容 動容 | to be emotionally moved | |
| 合眼 閤眼 | to close one's eyes; to get to sleep | |
| 赶工 趕工 | to work against the clock; to hurry with work to get it done in time | |
| 心心念念 心心念念 | (idiom) to constantly think about; to be preoccupied with; to set one's heart on | |
| 女王 女王 | queen | |
| 摄 攝 | take in, absorb; act as deputy | |
| 趣 趣 | interesting; to interest | |
| 突 突 | suddenly, abruptly, unexpectedly | |
| 费时 費時 | to take time; time-consuming | |
| 光大 光大 | splendid; magnificent; abbr. for, China Everbright Bank | |
| 调取 調取 | to obtain (information from an archive etc) | |
| 衫 衫 | shirt; robe; gown; jacket | |
| 管他 管他 | no matter if; regardless of; don’t worry about (it, him etc); doesn’t matter | |
| 上古 上古 | the distant past; ancient times; antiquity; early historical times | |
| 兰 蘭 | orchid; elegant, graceful | |
| 年内 年內 | during the current year | |
| 他性 他性 | otherness | |
| 展 展 | open, unfold; stretch, extend | |
| 破的 破的 | to hit the target; (fig.) to hit the nail on the head | |
| 资 資 | property; wealth; capital | |
| 搬出去 搬出去 | to move out (vacate); to shift sth out | |
| 骚 騷 | harass, bother, annoy, disturb | |
| 输赢 輸贏 | win or loss; outcome | |
| 够受的 夠受的 | to be quite an ordeal; to be hard to bear | |
| 即为 即為 | to be considered to be; to be defined to be; to be called | |
| 随你 隨你 | as you wish | |
| 把头 把頭 | labor contractor; gangmaster | |
| 想得美 想得美 | to have an unrealistically optimistic expectation; (as an interjection) what a dreamer! |