Vocabulary: 南方与北方
- to fish up; to dredge up
- Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus) (CL:條|条[tiao2])
- 猫 māo: 猫 mao1: cat (CL:隻|只[zhi1]); (dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword) (coll.) modem猫 máo: 猫 mao2: used in 貓腰|猫腰[mao2 yao1]
- smooth and evasive; slick and sly
- treacherous; sinister
- door knocker (in the shape of a ring)
- sighing voice, wailing breath (idiom); to heave deep sighs; to sigh in despair
- bored; fed up with sth; sick of sth
- salary; wages
- strikebreaker; scab; traitor to the working class
- (onom.) chaotic or dynamic noises (pattering, crashing, rustling, clattering, sobbing etc); smashed to pieces; completely routed
- to walk around; to move about; to stretch one's legs; to go for a walk; to be mobile (e.g. after an illness); to visit one another; to socialize; to pay a visit (go to the toilet)
- 呛 qiāng: 呛 qiang1: to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way)呛 qiàng: 呛 qiang4: to irritate the nose; to choke (of smoke, smell etc); pungent; (coll.) (Tw) to shout at sb; to scold; to speak out against sb
- 足 jù: 足 ju4: excessive足 zú: 足 zu2: (bound form) foot; leg; sufficient; ample; as much as; fully
- to raise one's wine cup
- to be not less than (a certain quantity, amount etc)
- to be finished (with sth)
- 随 Súi: 随 Sui2: surname Sui随 súi: 随 sui2: to follow; to comply with; varying according to...; to allow; subsequently
- quarter (hour); moment; to carve; to engrave; to cut; oppressive; classifier for short time intervals
- to coerce (sb into doing sth bad); to lure (into a trap); to seduce
- to drink (alcohol)
- to insist on doing sth; must do it, despite everything
- hour; specified time
- bakery; CL:家[jia1]
- 磅 páng: 磅 pang2: used in 磅礡|磅礴[pang2 bo2]; Taiwan pr. [pang1]磅 bàng: 磅 bang4: scale (instrument for weighing); to weigh; (loanword) pound (unit of weight, about 454 grams); (printing) point (unit used to measure the size of type); (Tw) (printing) pound; ream weight (used to describe paper thickness)
- tavern; wine shop
- to flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread; to move or drift; to degenerate; to banish or send into exile; stream of water or sth resembling one; class, rate or grade
- fond of the bottle (idiom)
- intoxicated
- crazy; mad; madly
- to exaggerate; overstated; exaggerated; hyperbole; (coll.) excessive; ridiculous; outrageous
- to be careful; to take care
- to untie; to free; to absolve of; to get free of; to extirpate oneself; (Buddhism) to free oneself of worldly worries
- to frame sb; to accuse falsely
- fair; impartial
- to assign (a task to different people); to allocate