Vocabulary: 俄罗斯套娃
- rapid; quick; speed; rate; soon; almost; to make haste; clever; sharp (of knives or wits); forthright; plainspoken; gratified; pleased; pleasant
- very early in the morning; in the wee hours
- to break out; to erupt; to explode; to burst out
- thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (finance) stock; share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科[ke1]; classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc; classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff; classifier for bands of people, gangs etc; classifier for sudden forceful actions
- (bound form) to compare; (literary) to dispute; compared to; (before an adjective) relatively; comparatively; rather; also pr. [jiao3]
- left and right; nearby; approximately; attendant; to control; to influence
- operation; action; CL:個|个[ge4]; to move about; mobile
- to begin; beginning; to start; initial; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb
- luggage; CL:件[jian4]
- strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled
- to clear up; to tidy up; to pick up; to repair
- anxious; worried; apprehensive
- not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing
- tranquil; undisturbed; serene
- (coll.) but on the contrary; but instead
- to be saved
- to move emotionally; to stir up (emotions); to excite
- suitcase; baggage compartment; overhead bin; (car) trunk; boot
- engagement; wedding contract
- the self; oneself; self-; (psychology) ego
- just; exactly; to happen to be
- devoted; loyal; fidelity; loyalty
- brave; courageous
- to grant; to bestow
- to select; to choose; to settle on
- wedding day
- authority; authoritative; power and prestige
- to avert; to prevent; to avoid; to refrain from
- to sink into; to get caught up in; to land in (a predicament)
- critical circumstances; risky conditions; danger zone
- need not; does not have to; not necessarily
- 逼 bī: 逼 bi1: to compel; to pressure逼 bī: 逼 bi1: to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on
- to have no alternative; frustrated; exasperated; helpless; (conjunction) but unfortunately
- hard to take; embarrassed
- lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom); fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
- to consider; to ponder
- rich; wealthy; affluent; to be rich in; to be replete with
- to be in contact (with sb); to associate; to interact; to get along (well, poorly)
- cavalier; offhand; reckless
- slipshod; careless; slovenly; (of handwriting) scrawly; illegible
- to occupy; to hold
- (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly
- man (i.e. manly, masculine)
- (coll.) perhaps