Vocabulary: 俄罗斯套娃
- reality; actuality; real; actual; realistic; pragmatic; materialistic; self-interested
- very much; extremely; one ten thousandth part
- to tell a lie
- in a low voice; softly
- place; location; (after a noun) place where it is located
- to focus one's attention; to concentrate on (doing sth)
- wheel rut; vehicle track
- low speed
- to travel along a route (of vehicles etc)
- to come across (sb); to run into
- road surface
- weak; faint; feeble
- resistance; drag
- engine (loanword); CL:臺|台[tai2]
- (of fire, lamp etc) to go out; to put out (fire); (fig.) to die down; (of a vehicle) to stall
- steady; stable; stability; to stabilize; to pacify
- wheel
- from beginning to end; all along
- to deviate; to diverge; to wander
- if; if one were to say
- really isn't
- to focus; to concentrate; to give one's full attention
- to compel; to force
- majestic presence; awe-inspiring manner
- sweet and unctuous; (fig.) overly sentimental
- amiable; cordial; close and dear; familiar
- name; titular; nominal; in name; ostensible purpose
- to request; to ask; request (CL:個|个[ge4])
- to mention; to raise (a subject); to refer to
- custom; tradition; local tradition; convention
- difference; discrepancy
- 精神 jīng shén: 精神 jing1 shen2: spirit; mind; consciousness; thought; mental; psychological; essence; gist; CL:個|个[ge4]精神 jīng shen: 精神 jing1 shen5: vigor; vitality; spirited; good-looking
- to care about; to mind
- 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")
- to hope for; to look forward to
- Germany
- north Europe; Scandinavia
- legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
- Father Christmas; Santa Claus
- individually; one by one; just one or two; exceptional; rare
- (dialect) father; old man; sir
- Chinese-style gown
- reindeer
- sled; sledge; sleigh; bobsled
- child