Vocabulary: 南方与北方
- 铲 chǎn: 铲 chan3: to scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds); to shovel铲 chǎn: 铲 chan3: (bound form) spade; shovel
- (of metal) to rust; to become rusty; (fig.) (of a skill etc) to get rusty; to deteriorate
- corrosion; to corrode (degrade chemically); to rot; corruption
- 泡 pāo: 泡 pao1: puffed; swollen; spongy; small lake (esp. in place names); classifier for urine or feces泡 pào: 泡 pao4: bubble; foam; blister; to soak; to steep; to infuse; to dawdle; to loiter; to pick up (a girl); to get off with (a sexual partner); classifier for occurrences of an action; classifier for number of infusions
- single; only; sole
- undisciplined; unorganized
- animals used for their physical strength (mules, oxen etc); beast of burden
- to urge (an activity that may be beneficial, harmful or neutral); to encourage; to agitate; to instigate; to incite; to beat; to flap (wings, a fan etc)
- travel expenses; money for a voyage; toll
- to sell; to betray; to spare no effort; to show off or flaunt
- exhausted; fatigued to the extreme
- if; if one were to say
- to eat one's fill
- 稍 shāo: 稍 shao1: somewhat; a little稍 shào: 稍 shao4: used in 稍息[shao4 xi1]
- to resist; to defy; to oppose
- starving; famished
- whip; CL:根[gen1]
- ordinary; common; usually; ordinarily
- nothing out of the ordinary; unglamorous
- to set fire to; to burn down; burning hot; baked cake
- life (a person's whole life); in one's entire life
- the whole story
- husband and wife; married couple
- reception office; janitor's office
- milk; (botany) latex
- many thanks; thanks a lot
- to bake; to heat by fire; to set off by contrast
- to dry over a stove
- to stare at
- to refuse politely
- to have guts; to have courage; to be brave
- improper; dishonorable
- not to accept as correct (idiom); to object; to disapprove; to take exception to
- promise
- words; speech; utterance; discourse
- (idiom) (of siblings, spouses etc) very close to each other; inseparable; devoted to each other
- irreproachable (idiom); nothing blameworthy about it at all
- to lure into; to entrap; to trick into; to entice; to induce; to invite; to tempt