Vocabulary: 南方与北方
- street; main street; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- to tell in detail
- 号 háo: 号 hao2: (bound form) to wail; to howl号 hào: 号 hao4: (literary) to call out; to command; (bound form) bugle; trumpet; (bound form) signal; bugle call (e.g. 起床號|起床号[qi3 chuang2 hao4]); (bound form) mark; sign; to mark; to label; to assign a number; (bound form) name; appellation (e.g. 國號|国号[guo2 hao4], 年號|年号[nian2 hao4], 遼寧號|辽宁号[Liao2 ning2 Hao4]); (after a numeral) number designation (e.g. 237號房間|237号房间[er4 san1 qi1 hao4 fang2 jian1] "Room 237"); day of the month (e.g. 七號|七号[qi1 hao4] "the 7th"); (bound form) size; type; category (e.g. 五號電池|五号电池[wu3 hao4 dian4 chi2]); (TCM) to feel (the pulse) (used in 號脈|号脉[hao4 mai4]); classifier for numbered people or items
- dim; dark; overcast; darkness; shadow; (fig.) dismal; gloomy; somber; murky; shadowy (side)
- dirty; filthy; despicable
- bleak; desolate; (economics) in a slump; sluggish; depressed
- desolate; unfrequented; to treat sb coldly; to snub; to cold shoulder
- unmanned; uninhabited
- first of all; in the first place
- village; hamlet; CL:座[zuo4]
- to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks)
- market; city; municipality (administrative unit); (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods
- cannot; must not; should not
- nearby; neighboring; (in the) vicinity (of); neighborhood
- lawn; meadow; sod; turf; CL:片[pian4]
- house; building; CL:所[suo3],套[tao4]
- in fact; in reality; as a matter of fact; in practice
- only; merely; nothing but; no more than; it's just that ...
- cottage
- to grow all over
- Japanese rose (Rosa multiflora)
- all year round
- to bloom; to blossom; to flower; (fig.) to burst; to split open; (fig.) to burst with joy; (fig.) to spring up everywhere; to flourish
- especially; particularly
- Christmas time; Christmas season; Christmas
- to bring up to full strength; to make up a deficiency; to fill (a vacancy, gap etc)
- width; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures
- drawing; picture
- to get angry
- (coll.) exactly!; indeed; that's for sure
- to trace over; to take a copy (of a calligraphy, a painting etc); (fig.) to describe; to portray
- reality; practice; practical; realistic; real; actual
- to be sorry; to feel apologetic; sorry!
- England
- all; to have; to possess; to own
- tedious
- second only to ...; ranking behind only ...
- forest; CL:片[pian4]
- 丁 Dīng: 丁 Ding1: surname Ding丁 dīng: 丁 ding1: male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1]; fourth (used like "4" or "D"); small cube of meat or vegetable; (literary) to encounter; (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195°; (chemistry) butyl丁 zhēng: 丁 zheng1: used in 丁丁[zheng1 zheng1]
- to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire); to live; to be alive; life; raw; uncooked; unprocessed; unfamiliar; strange; (bound form) student; person engaged in a field; (bound form) male role in traditional opera; (bound form) life; lifetime; (bound form) means of livelihood; (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]); (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- some; a certain; sb or sth indefinite; such-and-such
- head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc