Vocabulary: 雪球效应-（1952）-The Snowball Effect
from 100：科幻之书 I 窃星
- 关上x1 | Chapter Rank #1340to close (a door); to turn off (light, electrical equipment etc)
- 盒子x1 | Chapter Rank #1341box; case; hezi – a savory turnover-like pie in northern Chinese and Mongolian cuisines
- 放到x1 | Chapter Rank #1342
- 可怜x1 | Chapter Rank #1343pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on
- 之间x1 | Chapter Rank #1344(after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 彈指之間|弹指之间[tan2 zhi3 zhi1 jian1])
- 赌x1 | Chapter Rank #1345to bet; to gamble
- 约x2 | Chapter Rank #545to weigh in a balance or on a scaleto make an appointment; to invite; approximately; pact; treaty; to economize; to restrict; to reduce (a fraction); concise
- 盖棺论定x1 | Chapter Rank #1346don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom)
- 哪怕x1 | Chapter Rank #1347even; even if; even though; no matter how
- 让步x1 | Chapter Rank #1348to concede; to give in; to yield; a concession; (linguistics) concessive
- 慢慢x1 | Chapter Rank #1349slowly; gradually
- 解雇x1 | Chapter Rank #1350to fire; to sack; to dismiss; to terminate employment
- 大概x2 | Chapter Rank #546roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea
- 先x2 | Chapter Rank #547beforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now; (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
- 辞职x1 | Chapter Rank #1351to resign
- 声名x1 | Chapter Rank #1352reputation; declaration
- 扫地x1 | Chapter Rank #1353to sweep the floor; (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom; to be at an all-time low
- 销声匿迹x1 | Chapter Rank #1354to vanish without trace (idiom); to lie low
- 记得x2 | Chapter Rank #548to remember
- 句x1 | Chapter Rank #1355sentence; clause; phrase; classifier for phrases or lines of verse
- 玩笑话x1 | Chapter Rank #1356
- 那样的话x1 | Chapter Rank #1357
- 乱作一团x1 | Chapter Rank #1358
- 谈谈x1 | Chapter Rank #1359to discuss; to have a chat
- 也许x3 | Chapter Rank #318perhaps; maybe
- 解散x2 | Chapter Rank #549to dissolve; to disband
- 出于x1 | Chapter Rank #1360due to; to stem from
- 客观原因x1 | Chapter Rank #1361
- 地步x1 | Chapter Rank #1362stage; degree (to which a situation has evolved); a (usu. bad) situation; leeway
- 打x2 | Chapter Rank #550(loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")
- 回去x2 | Chapter Rank #551to return; to go back
- 几分钟x1 | Chapter Rank #1363
- 六x1 | Chapter Rank #1364used in place namessix; 6
- 七点x1 | Chapter Rank #1365
- 五个x1 | Chapter Rank #1366
- 小时x1 | Chapter Rank #1367hour; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 期间x1 | Chapter Rank #1368period of time; time; time period; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 该x4 | Chapter Rank #228should; ought to; probably; must be; to deserve; to owe; to be sb's turn to do sth; that; the above-mentioned
- 怎么办x1 | Chapter Rank #1369what's to be done
- 谈话x1 | Chapter Rank #1370to talk (with sb); to have a conversation; talk; conversation; CL:次[ci4]
- 不想x1 | Chapter Rank #1371unexpectedly; to one's surprise
- 哪儿x1 | Chapter Rank #1372where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?
- 驱车x1 | Chapter Rank #1373to go by car (as driver or passenger)
- 赶往x1 | Chapter Rank #1374to hurry to (somewhere)
- 速度x1 | Chapter Rank #1375speed; rate; velocity; (music) tempo
- 平常x1 | Chapter Rank #1376ordinary; common; usually; ordinarily
- 快得多x1 | Chapter Rank #1377
- 速度计x1 | Chapter Rank #1378speedometer
- 飙升x1 | Chapter Rank #1379to rise rapidly; to soar
- 同时x2 | Chapter Rank #552at the same time; simultaneously