- to play (as children do); to amuse oneself
- happy; joyful
- to drift apart; to become estranged; to alienate; estrangement
- conflict; to conflict; clash of opposing forces; collision (of interests); contention
- to injure; to harm
- (idiom) inevitable; unavoidable
- astute; shrewd; smart
- intelligent; clever; bright; acute (of sight and hearing)
- to try to find; to look for; to call on sb; to find; to seek; to return; to give change
- (coll.) older sister's husband
- day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life
- head and face filthy with grime (idiom); covered in dirt; dejected and depressed
- cannot afford; can't afford buying
- house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room; CL:棟|栋[dong4],幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4],套[tao4],間|间[jian1]
- husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into)
- (of the husband) to marry into and live with the wife's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)
- antisocial; reclusive; eccentric
- 成功 chéng gōng: 成功 cheng2 gong1: to succeed; success; successful; fruitful成功 Chéng gōng: 成功 Cheng2 gong1: Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[Tai2 dong1 Xian4], southeast Taiwan
- company; firm; corporation; CL:家[jia1]
- dormitory; dorm room; living quarters; hostel; CL:間|间[jian1]
- no good
- way of thinking; opinion; notion; to think of a way (to do sth)
- illness; CL:場|场[chang2]; disease; to fall ill; defect
- serious illness
- insurance; to insure; safe; secure; be sure; be bound to; CL:份[fen4]
- 越 Yuè: 越 Yue4: generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods; abbr. for Vietnam 越南越 yuè: 越 yue4: to exceed; to climb over; to surpass; the more... the more
- to spend money
- to save; to put aside; savings
- the whole family; the same family; the family ... (when preceded by a family name); group
- to buy a house
- to help; to lend a hand; to do a favor; to do a good turn
- bias; partiality; to be partial
- to equal; to be tantamount to
- moreover; besides; in addition; furthermore
- to preserve; to save
- to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker); (LGBT) bottom
- guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin
- ash; dust; lime; gray; discouraged; dejected
- to envelop; to shroud
- night
- limitless; boundless
- one breath; in one breath; at a stretch
- Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer