- apparently; it seems that
- family financial situation; family circumstances
- market economy
- to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture
- to execute (a plan); to grasp
- a party (in a contract or legal case); one side; area; region
- then; at that time; in those days
- rural area; village; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to value males and attach less importance to females (idiom)
- to be in vogue; to be popular; to be prevalent
- apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- parents
- lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers; innumerable; thousands upon thousands
- environs; surroundings; periphery
- ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about
- to arrive; arrival; advent
- 许 xǔ: 许 xu3: to allow; to permit; to promise; to praise; somewhat; perhaps许 Xǔ: 许 Xu3: surname Xu
- (bound form) father; (bound form) male relative of father's generation (as in 伯父[bo2 fu4]); (computing) (bound form) parent-
- full of; brimming with; very full; permeated
- all day long; the whole day
- happily; giddily
- bright; light; to shine; to flash; loud and clear; to show (one's passport etc); to make public (one's views etc)
- to work; to be employed
- evening; night; late
- to return to
- 子 zǐ: 子 zi3: son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-子 zi: 子 zi5: noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
- (do sth) in passing; incidentally (while doing sth else)
- to arrange; to handle; to cook; cuisine; art of cooking
- household chore
- beautiful; fine
- of short duration; brief; momentary
- weather
- sudden change; mutation
- heavy rain; CL:場|场[chang2]
- (bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor
- intensity of the rain
- to emerge (from a comparison); to come out as; to be competent or equal to
- fierce; violent; ferocious
- resident; inhabitant
- to hide; to dodge; to avoid
- wild herb; potherb
- ma; mom; mother
- to finish; to be over; whole; complete; entire