Vocabulary: 家
- brotherly affection
- letter paper; writing paper
- to understand; to make allowances for; understanding
- address; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to beat a prisoner (to obtain confessions); to give sb the third degree; to torture
- upright and unafraid
- meeting; conference; CL:場|场[chang3],屆|届[jie4]
- to delay; to put off; to procrastinate
- to conceal oneself; to go into hiding; to take cover
- to talk sb round; to straighten sth out; to enlighten
- eloquent; oratory; rhetoric
- to prevail upon; to coax
- to shirk responsibility; to blame others; to pass the buck
- reliable
- before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand
- to treat; treatment
- to ignore; to let alone; to indulge
- to undertake; to assume (responsibility etc)
- bad name; evil reputation
- to retrieve
- 面子 miàn zi: 面子 mian4 zi5: outer surface; the outside of sth; social prestige; face面子 miàn zi: 面子 mian4 zi5: (medicinal) powder
- to give careful consideration to; to display thoughtfulness towards
- to spread widely
- repeatedly
- 人大 Rén dà: 人大 Ren2 da4: Renmin University of China (abbr. for 中國人民大學|中国人民大学[Zhong1 guo2 Ren2 min2 Da4 xue2])人大 rén dà: 人大 ren2 da4: people's congress, a legislative body within the PRC's system of government at any of various levels – national, provincial, municipal, county or township (abbr. for 人民代表大會|人民代表大会[ren2 min2 dai4 biao3 da4 hui4])
- lit. to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom); fig. to rejoice in other people's misfortune; Schadenfreude
- to meet with (sb who is paying a visit); CL:次[ci4]
- base of operations
- headquarters; base camp
- furious; enraged
- to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on
- can't bear to (do sth emotionally painful)
- (in) a fit of anger; (in) a foul mood
- second class; second-rate
- to be intimate; close friend; paramour