Vocabulary: 南方与北方
- 处 chǔ: 处 chu3: to reside; to live; to dwell; to be in; to be situated at; to stay; to get along with; to be in a position of; to deal with; to discipline; to punish处 chù: 处 chu4: (bound form) place; locality; (bound form) part; aspect; (bound form) office; department; bureau; classifier for locations: spot, point
- on the other hand; another aspect
- to mix together (disparate substances); to mingle; a mix; to be tangled up with
- scornful; disdainful; contemptuous; pejorative; disdain; contempt
- 翘 qiào: 翘 qiao4: to stick up; to rise on one end; to tilt翘 qiáo: 翘 qiao2: outstanding; to raise
- 绕 rào: 绕 rao4: to wind; to coil (thread); to rotate around; to spiral; to move around; to go round (an obstacle); to by-pass; to make a detour; to confuse; to perplex绕 rào: 绕 rao4: to spiral; to move around; to go round (an obstacle); to by-pass; to make a detour
- delicate; fine; careful; meticulous; painstaking
- to form an image; imaging
- tinfoil
- 薄 Bó: 薄 Bo2: surname Bo薄 báo: 薄 bao2: thin; cold in manner; indifferent; weak; light; infertile薄 bò: 薄 bo4: see 薄荷[bo4 he5]薄 bó: 薄 bo2: meager; slight; weak; ungenerous or unkind; frivolous; to despise; to belittle; to look down on; to approach or near
- strip
- unhurried; all in good time
- king
- labor contractor; gangmaster
- to immerse; to soak; to steep; gradually
- to experience; to go through; experience (CL:段[duan4],次[ci4])
- generation; period of 30 years; one's whole lifetime; lifelong; age; era; times; the whole world; the First (of numbered European kings)
- vertigo; dizziness; fainting; feeling of swaying, head spinning, lack of balance or floating (e.g. from a stroke); Taiwan pr. [xuan4 yun1]
- to chat; idle talk
- the daily life of a family
- bewildered; amazed
- to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
- to look forward to
- as one wishes; according to one's wishes; at will; voluntary; conscious
- to chat; casual conversation
- to pay no attention to; to disregard; to ignore; to let go unpunished; to let off
- harm; to damage; to impair
- vanity
- to put out; to come up with; to make (a choice, decision, proposal, response, comment etc); to issue (a permit, statement, explanation, apology, reassurance to the public etc); to draw (conclusion); to deliver (speech, judgment); to devise (explanation); to extract
- to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice
- a glance; a quick look; a glimpse
- distressed; laden with grief
- depressed; gloomy
- not in the least; to completely lack
- caustic; biting; piquant; acerbic; vitriolic; acrimonious
- to mention; to speak of; to talk about
- frigid irony and scorching satire (idiom); to mock and ridicule
- second; number two; next; secondary
- the self; oneself; self-; (psychology) ego
- to deride; to mock
- to feel puzzled
- to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion
- agility
- therefore; as a result; thus; and as a result, ...
- (idiom) inharmonious; incompatible