Vocabulary: 白夜
- seldom; rare; hard to come by
- thin; to lose weight; (of clothing) tight; (of meat) lean; (of land) unproductive
- 哑 yǎ: 哑 ya3: mute; dumb; incapable of speech; (of a voice) hoarse; husky; (bound form) (of a bullet, bomb etc) dud哑 yā: 哑 ya1: (onom.) sound of cawing; sound of infant learning to talk
- lame
- to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned
- to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to
- at a loss; unable to do anything about it; to have no choice
- to go down; to descend; to go on; to continue; (of a servant) to withdraw
- rent for a room or house
- plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that
- pension
- to take in; income; revenue; CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4]
- fortuitously; luckily; as chance has it
- young people; youngster
- native person (of a country)
- parts of the country other than where one is
- to haggle over price; to bargain
- to answer; to respond; to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise
- unexpectedly; to one's surprise
- to tell lies
- thereupon; as a result; consequently; thus; hence
- to not calculate; to not count; to not be considered (as); to have no weight
- young
- good-looking; nice-looking; (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good; in an embarrassing situation
- appearance; looks; profile; countenance
- hey; ow; ouch; interjection of pain or surprise
- sin; offense
- granddaughter (son's daughter)
- 你 nǐ: 你 ni3: you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2])你 nǐ: 你 ni3: you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)
- cannot; must not; should not
- to steal; to pilfer; to snatch; thief; stealthily
- 人家 rén jia: 人家 ren2 jia5: other people; sb else; he, she or they; I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")人家 rén jiā: 人家 ren2 jia1: household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be; CL:戶|户[hu4],家[jia1]
- always
- to cherish the memory of; to think of; to reminisce
- youth; youthfulness
- time; era; period of time
- warm
- cream; butter; (coll.) effeminate
- to open one's mouth (to eat, speak etc); to gape; to start talking (esp. to make a request)
- 离 chī: 离 chi1: mythical beast (archaic)离 Lí: 离 Li2: surname Li离 lí: 离 li2: to leave; to part from; to be away from; (in giving distances) from; without (sth); independent of; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire; ☲
- inwardly; to oneself; secretly