Vocabulary: 家肴
- interesting; meaningful; enjoyable; fun
- to build (housing); to construct; to make
- to appear to be; to seem as if
- light and quick; brisk; spry; lively; effortless; relaxed; agile; blithe
- lit. likes and dislikes; preferences; taste
- to dissolve; to resolve (contradictions); to dispel (doubts); to iron out (difficulties); to defuse (conflicts); to neutralize (fears)
- pain; suffering; painful; CL:個|个[ge4]
- well-off; wealthy
- (literary) still; yet
- gift; present; CL:件[jian4],份[fen4]
- extra; added; additional
- to pay (expenses); expenses; (old) to dismiss (an employee)
- there is no need; why should
- (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official)
- to bewail one's poverty; to complain about being hard up; to pretend to be poor
- lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom); fig. to spend one's money without generating any income
- classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc
- 裁缝 cái feng: 裁缝 cai2 feng5: tailor; dressmaker裁缝 cái féng: 裁缝 cai2 feng2: to make an item of clothing; to tailor
- cheongsam, a traditional Chinese dress for women, originally a long robe worn by Manchu women, later modernized in 20th-century Shanghai into a close-fitting dress with a high collar and side slits
- overcoat; topcoat; cloak; CL:件[jian4]
- 贵 Gùi: 贵 Gui4: short name for Guizhou 貴州|贵州[Gui4 zhou1]贵 gùi: 贵 gui4: expensive; (bound form) highly valued; precious; (bound form) noble; of high rank; (prefix) (honorific) your
- stingy; miserly; narrow-minded; petty
- 好玩 hào wán: 好玩 hao4 wan2: to be playful; to be fond of one's fun好玩 hǎo wán: 好玩 hao3 wan2: amusing; fun; interesting
- 省 shěng: 省 sheng3: to save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out; province; provincial capital; a ministry (of the Japanese government)省 xǐng: 省 xing3: (bound form) to scrutinize; (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct); (bound form) to come to realize; (bound form) to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders)
- wishing one could do sth; to hate to be unable; itching to do sth
- 困 kùn: 困 kun4: to trap; to surround; hard-pressed; stranded; destitute困 kùn: 困 kun4: sleepy; tired
- (medicine) to suffer paralysis; (fig.) to be paralyzed; to break down; to come to a standstill
- dark (weather, mood)
- unpleasant smell; stink
- to lose one's memory
- cannot bear; cannot stand; utterly; extremely
- refugee
- value system; personal or cultural values
- feather; plumage; plume
- excessive; undue; unduly; overly