Vocabulary: 南方与北方
- where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?
- to receive
- weak; in poor health
- to shun; to avoid (sb); to skirt; to evade (an issue); to step back; to withdraw; to recuse (a judge etc)
- to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start; to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run; to boil; to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc); (directional complement) away; off; carat (gold); abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2]; abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format
- apparently; it seems that
- to foreordain; to be bound to; to be destined to; to be doomed to; inevitably
- to cause one (to do sth); to make one (angry, delighted etc)
- to bury; to submerge; to pass into oblivion; to obliterate; to annihilate (physics)
- best; had better ...; it would be best to ...
- perhaps; maybe
- to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking
- 闻 Wén: 闻 Wen2: surname Wen闻 wén: 闻 wen2: to hear; news; well-known; famous; reputation; fame; to smell; to sniff at
- incoming letter; to send us a letter
- 约 yuē: 约 yue1: to make an appointment; to invite; approximately; pact; treaty; to economize; to restrict; to reduce (a fraction); concise约 yāo: 约 yao1: to weigh in a balance or on a scale
- to miss; to remember with longing; to long to see again
- inside story; inside information
- to mention; to raise (a subject); to refer to
- name (of a person or thing); CL:個|个[ge4]
- 管 Guǎn: 管 Guan3: surname Guan管 guǎn: 管 guan3: to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把[ba3] in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards
- to call; to be called
- to keep; to maintain; to hold; to preserve
- (idiom) exactly alike; identical; also pr. [yi1mo2-yi1yang4]
- to clean; to sweep
- to record; to note; to memorize; to remember; mark; sign; classifier for blows, kicks, shots
- to employ; to hire; to rent
- John (name); Johan (name); Johann (name)
- knight; Sir; (loanword) jazz
- guardian
- handsome; pretty
- worn next to the skin; close-fitting; personal (servant etc)
- female servant; maid
- (lit. and fig.) shadow; CL:道[dao4]
- poor; impoverished
- if (coming after a conditional clause)
- see 可不是[ke3 bu5 shi4]
- marriage; CL:門|门[men2]
- to climb (by pulling oneself up); to implicate; to claim connections of higher status
- loyal and devoted (idiom); faithful and true