Vocabulary: 大清相国
- a pretext for gossip; a matter for derision
- clever (child); smart; lovable; cute
- to make life difficult for; to embarrass; unable to make it through
- weather; unstable situation
- 对头 dùi tóu: 对头 dui4 tou2: correct; normal; to be on good terms with; on the right track; right对头 dùi tou: 对头 dui4 tou5: (longstanding) opponent; enemy; inimical; adversary; opponent
- (idiom) (of enemies) cannot live under the same sky; absolutely irreconcilable
- to involve; to implicate; to be interrelated
- bored; boring; senseless
- (bound form) salary; stipend
- arrogance; haughtiness
- unlikely to go so far as to; not as bad as
- deaf person
- normally; ordinarily speaking
- lit. to return to office after living as a hermit on Mount Dongshan (idiom); fig. to make a comeback
- efficacious; useful
- sound coming from sth (typically sth not immediately visible); also pr. [xiang3 dong5]
- tonight; this evening
- to carry; to take along; to bring along; to hold (hands); also pr. [xi1]
- to steep (tea)
- please (do sth) (deferential form)
- to help; to do a favor; (Shanghainese) Come on!; Give me a break!
- excuse; pretext; entreaties; arguments
- to speak frankly
- to show sb how to get to the right path
- etiquette; (old) gradation of etiquette with social status
- shop owner; moneybags
- to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical
- 世故 shì gu: 世故 shi4 gu5: sophisticated; worldly-wise世故 shì gù: 世故 shi4 gu4: the ways of the world