Vocabulary: 繁花
- the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom); (of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match
- first wife
- to grow to adulthood; fully grown; adult; the whole year
- waiting room (for train, bus etc)
- to rest; to recuperate; to regain composure
- neighbor; person next door
- to put on a fake smile (idiom); to smile insincerely
- disposition of troops; wave; spate; burst; spell; short period of time; classifier for events or states of short duration
- dead center; the very middle
- a hole
- hard to take; embarrassed
- brow beaded with sweat; perspiring freely
- to push aside; to part; to brush away
- (idiom) ashamed and unable to show one's face
- (of sb) to express; to state; to show; (of sth) to indicate; to signify; to show; expression; manifestation
- to restrict; condition
- (idiom) due to an unexpected turn of events
- to do something to sb; to deal with; to cope; how?; to no avail
- deliberately; on purpose
- pickled cucumber
- content; meaning; connotation; implication
- hole; opening; orifice (of the human body); (fig.) key (to the solution of a problem)
- to direct operations from a remote location; to remotely control
- toad ("chán" represents the sound of its croaking); (mythology) the three-legged toad said to exist in the moon; (metonym) the moon
- dwarf bamboo; thin bamboo
- to be moved; to be tempted
- not able to see clearly
- firm; stable; rock
- to bill and coo (idiom); to whisper sweet nothings to one another; to be very much in love
- slight; light; trivial; to a small extent
- (lit. and fig.) focal point; focus
- to follow bad examples; to be corrupted by bad examples
- to lose (money); to have a deficit; to be deficient; to treat unfairly; luckily; fortunately; thanks to; (used to introduce an ironic remark about sb who has fallen short of expectations)
- to fear; to dread; foreboding
- to remain silent; to have nothing to say
- to fold; collapsible; folding (bicycle, antenna, bed etc)
- fermented tofu
- butter; CL:盒[he2]