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挽辞 | 挽辭
- 1 an elegy
- 2 elegiac words
巨石阵 | 巨石陣
- 1 giant stone arrangement
- 2 Stonehenge
畸变 | 畸變
- 1 distortion
- 2 aberration
远亲不如近邻 | 遠親不如近鄰
- 1 A relative afar is less use than a close neighbor (idiom). Take whatever help is on hand, even from strangers.
传达室 | 傳達室
- 1 reception office
- 2 janitor's office
大虎头蜂 | 大虎頭蜂
- 1 Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia)
邓通 | 鄧通
- 1 Deng Tong (2nd c. BC), one of the wealthiest Former Han Dynasty 前漢|前汉[Qian2 Han4] officials
没有什么不可能 | 沒有什麼不可能
- 1 nothing is impossible
- 2 there's nothing impossible about it
蚂螂 | 螞螂
- 1 dragonfly
朔风凛冽 | 朔風凜冽
- 1 The north wind is icy cold.
私吞
- 1 to misappropriate (public funds etc)
- 2 to embezzle
頚
- 1 old variant of 頸|颈[jing3]
出行
- 1 to go out somewhere (relatively short trip)
- 2 to set off on a journey (longer trip)
五劳七伤 | 五勞七傷
- 1 (TCM) "five strains and seven impairments", five referring to the five viscera 五臟|五脏[wǔ zàng], and seven to adverse effects on one's body as a result of: overeating (spleen), anger (liver), moisture (kidney), cold (lung), worry (heart), wind and rain (outer appearance) and fear (mind)
栈房 | 棧房
- 1 warehouse
- 2 storehouse
- 3 inn
魂
- 1 soul
- 2 spirit
- 3 immortal soul, i.e. that can be detached from the body
气体 | 氣體
- 1 gas (i.e. gaseous substance)
附庸风雅 | 附庸風雅
- 1 (of an uneducated person) to mingle with the cognoscenti
- 2 to pose as a culture lover
- 3 to be a culture snob
- 4 having pretensions to culture
空心球
- 1 hollow ball
- 2 (basketball) swish shot
摩托
- 1 motor (loanword)
- 2 motorbike