Vocabulary: 春潮
- (coll.) to chat; (literary) temporarily; for a while; (literary) somewhat; slightly; (literary) to depend upon
- left and right; nearby; approximately; attendant; to control; to influence
- details; particulars
- (of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway; (of people) to carry out; to conduct (an investigation or discussion etc); (of an army etc) to be on the march; to advance
- grizzled (hair)
- 拉 là: 拉 la4: used in 拉拉蛄[la4 la4 gu3]拉 lá: 拉 la2: to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash拉 lā: 拉 la1: to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels
- husband
- 巴 bā: 巴 ba1: to long for; to wish; to cling to; to stick to; sth that sticks; close to; next to; spread open; informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4]; bar (unit of pressure); nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail巴 Bā: 巴 Ba1: Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan); the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality; surname Ba; (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1 ji1 si1 tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1 xi1] (Brazil)
- straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through
- to live in widowhood (formal)
- to move (from one residence to another)
- candy; CL:粒[li4]
- light refreshments; pastry; dim sum (in Cantonese cooking); dessert
- 商 shāng: 商 shang1: commerce; merchant; dealer; to consult; 2nd note in pentatonic scale; quotient (as in 智商[zhi4 shang1], intelligence quotient)商 Shāng: 商 Shang1: Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC); surname Shang
- to be born
- 维 Wéi: 维 Wei2: abbr. for Uighur 維吾爾|维吾尔[Wei2 wu2 er3]; surname Wei维 wéi: 维 wei2: to preserve; to maintain; to hold together; dimension; vitamin (abbr. for 維生素|维生素[wei2 sheng1 su4])
- 钦 qīn: 钦 qin1: to respect; to admire; to venerate; by the emperor himself钦 Qīn: 钦 Qin1: surname Qin
- Caltrop or puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris); to thatch (a roof)
- good person; healthy person; person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle
- nature; disposition; temperament; character; CL:個|个[ge4]
- irascible; irritable
- arrogant; haughty
- moreover; besides; in addition; furthermore
- republic; republicanism
- finger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to; to depend on; to count on; (of hair) to stand on end
- to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead; to be worried; to be concerned; (dialect) to make a phone call; to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor); (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam); classifier for sets or clusters of objects
- place above (it); upper part (of it)
- oil painting
- portrait (painting, photo etc); (in a general sense) representation of a person; likeness
- just as; precisely as
- to sigh
- to indicate; to point out
- (used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ...
- to grab hold of; to capture
- characteristic; trait; feature
- the late; deceased
- seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
- gloomy
- bitter; harsh; grim; ruthless; severe; cut-throat (competition)
- pirate
- thus; so; like that; you; thou