Vocabulary: 俄罗斯套娃
- insect or insect-like small creature (literary); base person (used as a curse word)
- peephole (in a door); (mineralogy) chrysoberyl
- fast and nimble
- hardly; not in the least; not at all
- frenetic; hurried
- readily; flatly (deny, admit and so on); a mouthful; a bite
- to swallow; to engulf; to gobble up
- silent; still; quiet; to mourn in silence; to observe silence; (neologism, attested by 2022) to stay at home during a pandemic
- therefore; as a result; so; the reason why
- to remember; to recall; memory
- true; real
- hard to avoid; difficult to escape from; will inevitably
- to frighten; to horrify; to terrify
- to stop for a rest
- continuous; in a row; serial; consecutive
- 拉 lā: 拉 la1: to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels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
- act; action; activity; move; movement
- clear proof
- to be on the alert; vigilant; alert; on guard; to warn
- to be on guard; alert; vigilance; alertness
- to offend
- all; to have; to possess; to own
- to avoid suffering; to avoid meeting (a fatal accident); spared
- to criticize; to find fault with; to denounce
- to assert; to claim
- to handle (affairs); to work
- swift; agile; efficient; quick-witted (colloquial)
- to run away; to escape
- monster; freak; eccentric person
- to prey on; to catch and feed on; to hunt for food
- to ascend; to rise; to promote; to elevate; liter; unit of dry measure for grain (= one liter or one-tenth dou 斗[dou3])
- condition; state; state of affairs
- "dragon bones" (fossilized animal bones or teeth, used in TCM); breastbone (of a bird); keel (of a ship)
- wound; cut
- to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word
- question; problem; issue; topic; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to moan; to groan
- both hands
- to cover (typically by placing a hand over sb's mouth, nose or ears etc)
- public; common; communal
- health; healthy
- clinic
- initial; preliminary; tentative
- to treat (an illness); medical treatment; therapy
- not long (after); before too long; soon; soon after