Vocabulary: 俄罗斯套娃
- civil service; public office; government job
- post; position; job; duties
- sincerity
- to have expectations; to earnestly hope; expectation; hope
- (bound form) boundary; border; (bound form) realm
- banquet; dinner party; soiree
- 同 tóng: 同 tong2: like; same; similar; together; alike; with同 tòng: 同 tong4: used in 胡同[hu2 tong4]同 tòng: 同 tong4: used in 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
- military campaign
- old soldier; veteran; veteran (sb who has a lot of experience in some domain)
- to recollect; to recall (past times); to look back
- nightmare
- to halt; to break off; pause (in speech)
- achievement; accomplishment; (in more recent usage) performance (of a business, employee etc); results
- to have a deficit; to be in the red; to owe
- within one's area of responsibility
- storm; violent commotion; fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc)
- center; heart; core
- to owe; to lack; (literary) to be deficient in; (bound form) yawn; to raise slightly (a part of one's body)
- to shake; to vibrate; to jolt; to quake; excited; shocked; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing thunder; ☳
- to collapse; to droop; to settle down
- scene; spectacle; occasion; situation
- cannot forget
- locus; orbit; trajectory; track
- to continue; to go on; to last
- terrible; frightful; frightening; terror; terrorist
- a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 下面 xià miàn: 下面 xia4 mian4: below; under; next; the following; also pr. [xia4 mian5]下面 xià miàn: 下面 xia4 mian4: to boil noodles
- (idiom) no need to tell others; let's keep this between ourselves; also pr. [bu4zu2 wei2 wai4ren2 dao4]
- slowly; unhurriedly; little by little
- words and sentences
- to touch; to make contact with sth; to stir up sb's emotions
- innate sense of right and wrong; conscience; bosom friend
- effectiveness; positive effect; to serve (in some capacity)
- noble; lofty; refined; exquisite
- accomplishment; success; achievement; CL:個|个[ge4]; to achieve (a result); to create; to bring about
- tone of voice; connotation in intonation; accent (regional etc); snout; muzzle; lips; protruding portion of an animal's face
- to discuss; to converse; chat; discussion
- anger
- to entertain; to amuse; entertainment; recreation; amusement; hobby; fun; joy
- advantageous; favorable
- domineering; haughty
- only if (..., or otherwise, ...); only when; only in the case that; unless
- (lit. and fig.) summit; peak; extremely; utterly
- to deserve (attention, respect etc); should have (freedoms, rights etc)