Vocabulary: 傲慢与偏见
- taciturn; uncommunicative; silent
- father and mother; parents
- meager (wages); humble (social status); feeble (voice)
- a relative (i.e. family relation); CL:門|门[men2],個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- fear; to dread; I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe
- husband of mother's sister; uncle
- mother's brother; maternal uncle (informal); CL:個|个[ge4]
- 齐 Qí: 齐 Qi2: (name of states and dynasties at several different periods); surname Qi齐 qí: 齐 qi2: neat; even; level with; identical; simultaneous; all together; to even sth out
- general; popular; everywhere; universal
- to compete; competition; match; to surpass; better than; superior to; to excel
- very loudly; at the top of one's voice
- countless; innumerable
- to stuff full; to cram in; packed tight; chock full
- entire; whole (fish, road etc)
- street; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- to recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc)
- lowly; mean and low
- to tease; to make fun of
- half of the day; a long time; quite a while; midair; CL:個|个[ge4]
- again; once more; re-
- not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210°
- to follow sb closely (idiom); to keep close to
- now; this moment
- night
- (lit. and fig.) deep
- to fall asleep
- to lay down; to put down; to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside; to lower (the blinds etc)
- to go downstairs
- living room; sitting room; CL:間|间[jian1]
- 打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")
- 卢 Lú: 卢 Lu2: surname Lu; abbr. for Luxembourg 盧森堡|卢森堡[Lu2 sen1 bao3]卢 lú: 卢 lu2: (old) rice vessel; black; (slang) (Tw) troublesome; fussy
- signboard; plaque; plate; tablet (CL:塊|块[kuai4]); brand; trademark; mahjong tile; domino; playing card (CL:張|张[zhang1]); (bound form) fixed pattern for lyrics or set melody in classical poetry or music (used in 詞牌|词牌[ci2 pai2] and 曲牌[qu3 pai2])
- gambling get-together; game of cards, mahjong etc
- stake (in a gamble); (what is at) stake
- to defecate; excrement; feces
- to refuse politely
- to plead; to claim as an excuse
- downstairs
- to while the time away; amusement; pastime; recreation; to make sport of
- preferably; one would prefer to...(or not to...); would rather; (would) be better to; (to pick) the lesser of two evils
- to read; to study
- to play cards; to play mahjong
- playing card
- scholar; intellectual
- lit. I dare not (accept the honor); fig. I don't deserve your praise; you flatter me