Vocabulary: 南方与北方
- tax stamp; to print a pattern or design on fabric
- cotton cloth
- window curtains
- 洗 xiǎn: 洗 xian3: used in 洗馬|洗马[xian3 ma3]洗 xǐ: 洗 xi3: to wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs); to shuffle (cards etc); to erase (a recording)
- many times; repeatedly
- I; me; myself; oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned
- bearing; manner; presence
- natural; graceful; and poised
- (construction) frame; (fig.) framework
- original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out
- narrow and small
- ugly; shameful; to ridicule
- to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks)
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, author of the Divine Comedy 神曲
- paradise; heaven
- old-fashioned; old type; outdated
- bookbinding; to bind (books etc)
- (printing) to stamp with gold foil; to bronze
- side; adjacent place
- Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典|词典[ci2 dian3], which has entries for words of one or more characters); (coll.) dictionary; CL:本[ben3]
- handwriting
- to copy; to transcribe
- word; CL:個|个[ge4]
- word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝[Song4 chao2] (CL:首[shou3])
- clearly; evidently; obviously
- lowly; humble
- strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled
- offspring a famous family (idiom); good breeding; blue blood
- to find
- unhappy; in low spirits; (of a knife) not sharp
- to be an irksome presence (i.e. sth or sb one wishes were not there)
- like this; so; such
- too bad; unfortunately; as luck would have it
- cooked rice; CL:碗[wan3]; meal; CL:頓|顿[dun4]; (loanword) fan; devotee
- to freeze (food etc); (of weather) freezing
- meat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit); (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy; (of a person) flabby; irresolute; Kangxi radical 130
- to scald; to burn (by scalding); to blanch (cooking); to heat (sth) up in hot water; to perm; to iron; scalding hot
- 非 Fēi: 非 Fei1: abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa非 fēi: 非 fei1: to not be; not; wrong; incorrect; non-; un-; in-; de-; to reproach; to blame; (coll.) to insist on; simply must
- cannot; should not; must not
- 喽 lóu: 喽 lou2: (bound form) subordinates in a gang of bandits喽 lou: 喽 lou5: (final particle equivalent to 了[le5]); (particle calling attention to, or mildly warning of, a situation)
- (coll.) husband's elder brother
- 嘛 ma: 嘛 ma5: modal particle indicating that sth is obvious; particle indicating a pause for emphasis嘛 má: 嘛 ma2: used in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽[an3 ma2 ni2 ba1 mi1 hong1]; (Tw) (coll.) what?
- early morning; CL:個|个[ge4]
- state of mind; mood
- just now; then
- one's two hands; two prongs (of a strategy); both aspects, eventualities etc; skills; expertise