Vocabulary: 南方与北方
- subsidiary; auxiliary; attached; affiliated; subordinate; subordinating
- to fall behind; to lag (in technology etc); backward; to retrogress
- New Testament
- regular; according to standards
- to answer; to respond; to converse
- stem (of fruit)
- peacemaker; mediator; (derog.) fixer
- to burn to death
- to roast; to grill; to broil; to bake; to toast (bread); to warm oneself by a fire
- fortune-telling; to tell fortune
- to entice; to lure; to scam; to hoodwink; to decoy
- Sunday
- Saturday
- 大爷 dà yé: 大爷 da4 ye2: arrogant idler; self-centered show-off大爷 dà ye: 大爷 da4 ye5: (coll.) father's older brother; uncle; term of respect for older man
- barbarous; uncivilized
- superstition; to have a superstitious belief (in sth)
- efficacious; effective; (of a prediction) accurate; correct
- to pick; to choose; to fight a duel; Taiwan pr. [dan1 tiao1]
- to offer sacrifice
- to have one's hair stand on end (idiom); to feel one's blood run cold
- to talk sb round; to straighten sth out; to enlighten
- to be very clear about sth (idiom)
- heresy; heathenism
- eager to excel; eager to get ahead in life; strong-minded
- valley; ravine
- to stroll; to saunter
- voice; windpipe
- to revisit
- subject; course; CL:門|门[men2]; class; lesson; CL:堂[tang2],節|节[jie2]; to levy; tax; form of divination
- to inspect; an investigation
- still possesses; yet retains (some positive attribute that contrasts with another of its attributes)
- phonetics
- school inspector
- indefinite article (e.g. English a, an)
- to concentrate one's attention (idiom)
- (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; CL:間|间[jian1]; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture
- to dismiss students at the end of the school day
- to exchange (sth) for (sth else); to replace with; to convert into
- from the inside to the outside; through and through; thoroughly