Vocabulary: 家
- fate; destiny
- to entreat; to implore; to plead
- touching; moving
- inadvertently; unintentionally
- to be born; to come into being; to withdraw from worldly affairs
- similar; same type; alike
- exception; to be an exception
- uneven; injustice; unfairness; wrong; grievance; indignant; dissatisfied
- (of a thought or image) to come to mind; (of a smile etc) to appear (on sb's face); (of a problem etc) to emerge
- to laugh involuntarily; Taiwan pr. [e4 ran2 shi1 xiao4]
- to talk to oneself
- to imagine; to envision; imagination
- worth the money; to merit; to deserve; to be worth (doing sth)
- reluctant to leave; to hate to have to go; to recall fondly
- immediately; at once; right away
- question; interrogation; doubt
- to be situated at; to find oneself at
- older sister
- to make a decision; resolution; decisiveness; resolute
- (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 彈指之間|弹指之间[tan2 zhi3 zhi1 jian1])
- rational; reasonable; sensible; fair
- to daydream; wishful thinking; pipe dream
- to be unable to say or tell; to not be worth mentioning
- 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
- 罢了 bà liǎo: 罢了 ba4 liao3: a modal particle indicating (don't mind it, ok)罢了 bà le: 罢了 ba4 le5: a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much)
- to diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time); (after 不[bu4] or 只[zhi3] or 何[he2] etc) to need; to require; to take
- not long (after); before too long; soon; soon after
- Xiongnu, a people of the Eastern Steppe who created an empire that flourished around the time of the Qin and Han dynasties
- (literary) why; how
- trite; clichéd; empty and trite; banality; platitude
- to solve; to resolve; to settle (a problem); to eliminate; to wipe out (an enemy, bandits etc)
- brilliant plan; ingenious method; perfect solution
- impassioned; vehement
- tune; melody; tuning; cadence; intonation; (speech) tone
- foreigner
- idea; opinion; meaning; wish; desire; interest; fun; token of appreciation, affection etc; CL:個|个[ge4]; to give as a small token; to do sth as a gesture of goodwill etc
- lit. real swords and spears (idiom); fig. very much for real; genuine
- battlefield; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to go up
- to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely
- a (real) man; boy; son
- ought to; should; must
- usual; common; ordinary
- as for; as to; to go so far as to
- to go to the bottom of a matter; after all; when all is said and done; (in an interrogative sentence) finally; outcome; result