- to be born
- to value males and attach less importance to females (idiom)
- cause; reason; because
- motive power; (fig.) motivation; impetus
- contradiction; CL:個|个[ge4]; conflicting views; contradictory
- feeling; emotion; to move (emotionally)
- to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- energy; vitality; vigor; vital force
- to hate; to regret
- merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however
- 呢 ní: 呢 ni2: dense wool fabric (used for coats and jackets)呢 ne: 呢 ne5: (sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?"); (sentence-final particle) indicating that a state or situation still holds; (discourse particle) used to mark a slight pause or emphasis in speech
- strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled
- to touch; to stir up (trouble or emotions); to move (sb's emotions or worry)
- the first time; for the first time
- to write
- to part; to leave each other; to distinguish; to tell apart; difference; distinction; in different ways; differently; separately; individually; respectively
- day by day; more and more; increasingly; more and more with each passing day
- (of people or relationships) close; intimate; to draw close to; to engage with; to become familiar with (nature, places, ideas, art etc)
- 戚戚 qī qī: 戚戚 qi1 qi1: sorrowful; distressed戚戚 qī qī: 戚戚 qi1 qi1: intimate; closely related; sorrowful; distressed
- don't!; must not
- but; however; (used for emphasis) indeed
- publishing house
- already at an earlier time
- booking; reservation; to book; to make an appointment
- 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]
- to face; to overlook; to arrive; to be (just) about to; just before
- before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand
- this kind of
- conscientious; earnest; serious; to take seriously; to take to heart
- psychoanalysis
- to separate; to divide; to analyze
- type; form; pattern; style
- 东西 dōng xī: 东西 dong1 xi1: east and west东西 dōng xi: 东西 dong1 xi5: thing; stuff; person; CL:個|个[ge4],件[jian4]
- to separate; to isolate
- despite; although; even though; in spite of; unhesitatingly; do not hesitate (to ask, complain etc); (go ahead and do it) without hesitating
- prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people); venerable (person); experienced; of long standing; always; all the time; of the past; very; outdated; (of meat etc) tough
- disparaging remarks; unkind things said about sb
- in fact; in reality; as a matter of fact; in practice
- 长 cháng: 长 chang2: long; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte; (bound form) to be good at; (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4])长 zhǎng: 长 zhang3: chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop; to increase; to enhance
- several years; many years
- (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4 liu4] "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed; (old) residence of a high official; (literary) but; however; (literary) only; just
- second (i.e. number two); second time; twice; (math.) quadratic (of degree two)
- heel; to follow closely; to go with; (of a woman) to marry sb; with; compared with; to; towards; and (joining two nouns)
- huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)