Vocabulary: 圣诞树与婚礼
from 50：伟大的短篇小说们
- 时刻x2 | Chapter Rank #111time; juncture; moment; period of time; CL:個|个[ge4],段[duan4]; constantly; always
- 终于x2 | Chapter Rank #112at last; in the end; finally; eventually
- 到来x1 | Chapter Rank #246to arrive; arrival; advent
- 时x7 | Chapter Rank #24surname Shio'clock; time; when; hour; season; period
- 不免有些x1 | Chapter Rank #247
- 紧张x1 | Chapter Rank #248nervous; keyed up; intense; tense; strained; in short supply; scarce; CL:陣|阵[zhen4]
- 首先x1 | Chapter Rank #249first of all; in the first place
- 不x5 | Chapter Rank #39no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 知道x2 | Chapter Rank #113to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5]
- 该x1 | Chapter Rank #250should; ought to; probably; must be; to deserve; to owe; to be sb's turn to do sth; that; the above-mentioned
- 如何x2 | Chapter Rank #114how; what way; what
- 摆弄x1 | Chapter Rank #251to move back and forth; to fiddle with
- 双手x1 | Chapter Rank #252both hands
- 情急之下x1 | Chapter Rank #253in a moment of desperation
- 把x16 | Chapter Rank #7to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb})handle
- 一条x1 | Chapter Rank #254
- 胳膊x2 | Chapter Rank #115arm; CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2],雙|双[shuang1]
- 猛地x1 | Chapter Rank #255suddenly
- 伸x2 | Chapter Rank #116to stretch; to extend
- 过x7 | Chapter Rank #25(experienced action marker)to cross; to go over; to pass (time); to celebrate (a holiday); to live; to get along; excessively; too-surname Guo
- 吧台x7 | Chapter Rank #26counter of a bar (pub)
- 跟x1 | Chapter Rank #256heel; to follow closely; to go with; (of a woman) to marry sb; with; compared with; to; towards; and (joining two nouns)
- 握x1 | Chapter Rank #257to hold; to grasp; to clench (one's fist); (bound form) to have in one's control; classifier: a handful
- 握手x1 | Chapter Rank #258to shake hands
- 招呼x1 | Chapter Rank #259to call out to; to greet; to say hello to; to inform; to take care of; to take care that one does not
- 道x1 | Chapter Rank #260road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]); (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization; (Daoism) the Way; the Dao; to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel); (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words); classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division)
- 您好x1 | Chapter Rank #261hello (polite)
- 放下x1 | Chapter Rank #262to lay down; to put down; to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside; to lower (the blinds etc)
- 手中x5 | Chapter Rank #40
- 凝视着x2 | Chapter Rank #117
- 目光x1 | Chapter Rank #263gaze; (fig.) attention; expression in one's eyes; look; (lit. and fig.) sight; vision
- 不经意x1 | Chapter Rank #264not paying attention; carelessly; by accident
- 间x3 | Chapter Rank #72gap; to separate; to thin out (seedlings); to sow discontentbetween; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for rooms
- 落到x1 | Chapter Rank #265
- 篮x1 | Chapter Rank #266basket (receptacle); basket (in basketball)
- 鸡蛋x43 | Chapter Rank #2(chicken) egg; hen's egg; CL:個|个[ge4],打[da2]
- 上x3 | Chapter Rank #73used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1](bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb; to get onto; to go up; to attend (class or university); (directional complement) up; (noun suffix) on; above
- 唔x2 | Chapter Rank #118oh (expression of agreement or surprise); (Cantonese) not
- 吞吞吐吐x1 | Chapter Rank #267to hum and haw (idiom); to mumble as if hiding sth; to speak and break off, then start again; to hold sth back
- 你x5 | Chapter Rank #41you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2])you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)
- 听说x1 | Chapter Rank #268to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking
- 克里斯托弗x4 | Chapter Rank #54(Warren) Christopher
- 哥伦布x5 | Chapter Rank #42Cristóbal Colón or Christopher Columbus (1451-1506); Columbus, capital of Ohio
- 吧x5 | Chapter Rank #43bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc); to puff (on a pipe etc); (onom.) bang; abbr. for 貼吧|贴吧[tie1 ba1](modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise); ...right?; ...OK?; ...I presume.(onom.) smack!
- 显得x1 | Chapter Rank #269to seem; to look; to appear
- 很x4 | Chapter Rank #55very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- 气愤x2 | Chapter Rank #119indignant; furious
- 那个x1 | Chapter Rank #270that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc); (euph.) menstruation; sex; also pr. [nei4 ge5]
- 就是x1 | Chapter Rank #271exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if
- 骗子x1 | Chapter Rank #272swindler; a cheat