Vocabulary: 春潮
- Good night!; Good evening!
- highland; upland
- to pound; to rap
- to focus one's attention; to concentrate on (doing sth)
- to gaze at; to fix one's eyes on
- intimate; taking liberties; familiar (with a negative connotation)
- stump; stake; pile; classifier for events, cases, transactions, affairs etc
- omen; sign (that sth is about to happen); warning sign
- treatment; pay; salary; status; rank
- venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom); young and inexperienced; novice; greenhorn
- rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- to walk
- for the time being; tentatively
- to bother about; to haggle; to bicker; to argue; plan; stratagem
- 胡 hú: 胡 hu2: non-Han people, esp. from central Asia; reckless; outrageous; what?; why?; to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和[hu2])胡 Hú: 胡 Hu2: surname Hu胡 hú: 胡 hu2: used in 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]胡 hú: 胡 hu2: beard; mustache; whiskers
- to make up one's mind
- to question closely; to investigate in detail; to examine minutely; to get to the heart of the matter
- to erect; vertical; vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)
- unhurried; calm; composed; leisurely
- in my opinion
- self-respect; self-esteem; ego; pride
- prejudice; bias
- to be anxious; to get angry with sb
- a way out; a way to retreat; leeway
- lit. in the eyes of a lover appears 西施[Xi1 shi1] (idiom); fig. beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- type; kind; category; (computer programming) type
- five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears 鼻目口舌耳); facial features
- portrait; to do a portrait of sb
- photograph; CL:張|张[zhang1],幅[fu2]
- a register; block of printing; edition; version; page
- to take a photograph; photography; to shoot (a movie)
- to disseminate; to propagate; to spread
- (bound form) father; (bound form) male relative of father's generation (as in 伯父[bo2 fu4]); (computing) (bound form) parent-
- first day of the month; toilet; (slang) top (in a homosexual relationship)
- glossy; sleek; smooth
- to understand (on hearing); to catch (what is spoken)
- to conclude; to determine; to come to a judgment
- or; could it be that...?
- careless; heedless; absent-minded; indifferent
- to assert; to insist that
- Moscow, capital of Russia
- 口音 kǒu yīn: 口音 kou3 yin1: (linguistics) oral speech sounds口音 kǒu yin: 口音 kou3 yin5: voice; accent