Vocabulary: 傲慢与偏见
- cradle (for a baby); (fig.) cradle; birthplace (of a civilization, movement etc)
- (coll.) young married couple
- to emerge; to pop up; to spring forth; to appear from nowhere
- silly little girl
- to get married
- to set (the tone, a target etc); to lay down (the beat)
- arranged betrothal of minors
- to hinge on; to be decided by; to depend on
- trick; maneuver; razzle-dazzle; (martial arts) fancy move; flourish
- to surrender; to succumb; to yield; (as a transitive verb) to defeat; to prevail over
- member
- family background
- 贵 Gùi: 贵 Gui4: short name for Guizhou 貴州|贵州[Gui4 zhou1]贵 gùi: 贵 gui4: expensive; (bound form) highly valued; precious; (bound form) noble; of high rank; (prefix) (honorific) your
- the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom); (of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match
- to see, hear and obey (idiom); to take advice; to take sb at his word
- (idiom) to make trouble without reason; to be deliberately provocative
- superficial
- to persuade; to convince; to win (sb) over
- to gesticulate while talking (idiom); to explain by waving one's hands; to criticize or give orders summarily
- to have no sense of shame; shameless
- to pay
- to waste; to spoil; to ruin; to wreck; to insult; to humiliate; to defile (a woman); to rape; also pr. [zao1ta5]
- to get in hand; to get (one's) hands on; to get hold of (in the sense of to acquire)
- honor and shame; sense of honor
- feelings of gratitude and loyalty
- to violate; to offend
- harboring unfathomable motives (idiom)
- to sound out; to probe; to feel out; to try out
- (idiom) impervious to reason; unreasonable
- to go (of car, train etc); to drive off