to do; to manage; to handle; to play with; to fool with; to mess with; to fix; to toy with

to err; to get sth wrong; to miscalculate; to misunderstand

to play with; to toy with; to dally with; to engage in; to resort to

to kill; to put to death

to make a fool out of; to fool; to dupe

to bruise; to hurt (something)

to ruin; to spoil; to break

to make dirty; to defile; to smear

to clarify; to fully understand

to play tricks on; to make fun of; to tease

to fool; to deceive; to go through the motions

to tease

to tease; to poke fun at; to make fun of

to mess up; to put into disorder; to meddle with; to confuse

to move back and forth; to fiddle with

to wake sb up

to get in hand; to get (one's) hands on; to get hold of (in the sense of to acquire)

to tease; to play tricks on

to spoil; to mess up

to confuse (fail to differentiate)

to show off; to make a display of

lanes and alleys; neighborhood; lane neighborhoods in parts of Shanghai, with modified Chinese courtyard houses, occupied by single families in the 1930s, now crowded with multiple families

to make sense of; to grasp the meaning of; to figure out

to crumble

(lit.) to pretend to be in contact with supernatural beings (idiom); (fig.) to create a false sense of mystery; to play tricks to deceive or scare others; to engage in hocus-pocus

to look after; to tend (one's crops, garden, livestock, pets etc); to repair

to mock; to bully and insult

to move (things around); to buy and sell at a profit (derog.)

(dialect) to mix; to stir; to make trouble

to fool; to deceive

to fool; to deceive

alley; lane

to lose

to bring to deadlock; to result in a stalemate

to get hold of; to obtain; to secure; to come by

(dialect) alley; lane

to flatten

to distort

(literary) to have a baby boy; to celebrate the birth of a son

(literary) to have a baby girl; to celebrate the birth of a daughter

to crumple

to straighten

to shorten; shortening

emperor's favorite courtier

(coll.) to take (sth) away; to get rid of

to get a good grasp of

to play with; to fiddle with

to fondle; to caress; to stroke

to move to and fro (with hand, foot, stick etc); to fiddle with; to stir up