Vocabulary
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| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 数一数二 數一數二 | (idiom) reckoned to be best or second best; one of the very best; (idiom) to list one by one | Idiom |
| 正好 正好 | just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that | Xiehouyu |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 天津 天津 | Tianjin municipality | Proper Noun |
| 海河 海河 | Hai He (a system of five waterways around Tianjin, flowing into Bohai 渤海 at Dagukou 大沽口) | Proper Noun |
| 那时候 那時候 | at that time | |
| 海鸟 海鳥 | seabird | |
| 不可能 不可能 | impossible; cannot; not able | |
| 低级 低級 | low level; rudimentary; vulgar; low; inferior | |
| 成了 成了 | to be done; to be ready; that's enough!; that will do! | |
| 可就 可就 | certainly | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 天意 天意 | providence; the Will of Heaven | |
| 喝酒 喝酒 | to drink (alcohol) | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 百姓 百姓 | common people | |
| 得着 得著 | to obtain | |
| 举杯 舉杯 | to toast sb (with wine etc); to drink a toast | |
| 套话 套話 | polite phrase; conventional greetings; cliché; to try to worm facts out of sb | |
| 吃饱 吃飽 | to eat one's fill | |
| 头上 頭上 | overhead; above | |
| 当上 當上 | to take up duty as; to assume a position; to assume; to take on (an office) | |
| 气不过 氣不過 | so angry it's unbearable; bitter about unbearable grievances | |
| 比画 比畫 | variant of | |
| 案 案 | table, bench; legal case | |
| 言 言 | words, speech; speak, say | |
| 带回 帶回 | to bring back | |
| 天亮 天亮 | to grow light (at daybreak) | |
| 睡得着 睡得著 | to fall asleep; to get to sleep | |
| 全天 全天 | whole day | |
| 面的 麵的 | abbr. of; minivan taxi | |
| 有可能 有可能 | possible; probable; possibly; probably; may; might | |
| 得看 得看 | (it) depends on... | |
| 一句 一句 | a line of verse; a sentence | |
| 一只 一隻 | 一: one; a, an; alone · 只: only, just, simply | |
| 带走 帶走 | to carry; to take away | |
| 长得 長得 | to look (pretty, the same etc) | |
| 问路 問路 | to ask for directions; to ask the way (to some place) | |
| 那会儿 那會兒 | at that time (in the past or the future); also pr. [nèi huì r] | |
| 里头 裡頭 | inside; interior | |
| 斤 斤 | catty; (PRC) weight equal to 500 g; (Tw) weight equal to 600 g; (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g | |
| 从小 從小 | from childhood; from a young age | |
| 姓 姓 | family name; surname; to be surnamed | |
| 小时候 小時候 | in one's childhood | |
| 出门 出門 | to go out; to leave home; to go on a journey; away from home; (of a woman) to get married | |
| 接下来 接下來 | to accept; to take; next; following |