Vocabulary: 沈从文：做志士还是绅士？
from 安身立命：大时代中的知识人
- 怀恋x1 | Chapter Rank #643
- 乡村x1 | Chapter Rank #644rustic; village; countryside
- 自然x2 | Chapter Rank #291nature; natural; naturally
- 蛮荒x1 | Chapter Rank #645savage; wild; uncivilized territory
- 痛恨x3 | Chapter Rank #178to detest; to loathe; to abhor
- 道x1 | Chapter Rank #646road; 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)
- 尽x2 | Chapter Rank #292to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority toto use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of sth); all; entirely
- 游子x1 | Chapter Rank #647person living or traveling far from home
- 苦闷x4 | Chapter Rank #130depressed; dejected; feeling low
- 彷徨x1 | Chapter Rank #648to pace back and forth, not knowing which way to turn; to hesitate; to waver
- 成名作x1 | Chapter Rank #649seminal work that propels a writer (or artist, composer etc) to fame
- 莎x3 | Chapter Rank #179used in 莎草[suo1 cao3]katydid (family Tettigoniidae); phonetic "sha" used in transliteration
- 菲x3 | Chapter Rank #180abbr. for the Philippines 菲律賓|菲律宾[Fei1 lu:4 bin1]luxuriant (plant growth); rich with fragrance; phenanthrene C14H10poor; humble; unworthy; radish (old)
- 女士x3 | Chapter Rank #181lady; madam; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]; Miss; Ms
- 日记x1 | Chapter Rank #650diary; CL:則|则[ze2],本[ben3],篇[pian1]
- 之所以x1 | Chapter Rank #651(after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P; Example: 我之所以討厭他|我之所以讨厌他[wo3 zhi1 suo3 yi3 tao3 yan4 ta1] "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)"
- 引起轰动x1 | Chapter Rank #652
- 正是x3 | Chapter Rank #182is precisely
- 切中x1 | Chapter Rank #653to hit the target (esp. in argument); to strike home
- 弥漫x1 | Chapter Rank #654to pervade; to fill the air; diffuse; everywhere present; about to inundate (water); permeated by (smoke); filled with (dust); to saturate (the air with fog, smoke etc)
- 深刻x2 | Chapter Rank #293profound; deep; deep-going
- 虚无x3 | Chapter Rank #183nothingness
- 主题x2 | Chapter Rank #294theme; subject
- 大革命x1 | Chapter Rank #655
- 失败x2 | Chapter Rank #295to be defeated; to lose; to fail (e.g. experiments); failure; defeat; CL:次[ci4]
- 由于x1 | Chapter Rank #656due to; as a result of; thanks to; owing to; since; because
- 北方x1 | Chapter Rank #657north; the northern part a country; China north of the Yellow River
- 生存环境x1 | Chapter Rank #658habitat; living environment
- 恶化x1 | Chapter Rank #659to worsen
- 各路x1 | Chapter Rank #660
- 文化x2 | Chapter Rank #296culture; civilization; cultural; CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]
- 精英x1 | Chapter Rank #661cream; elite; essence; quintessence
- 纷纷x1 | Chapter Rank #662one after another; in succession; one by one; continuously; diverse; in profusion; numerous and confused; pell-mell
- 南下x1 | Chapter Rank #663to go down south
- 新x5 | Chapter Rank #95abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xin1 jiang1]; abbr. for Singapore 新加坡[Xin1 jia1 po1]; surname Xinnew; newly; meso- (chemistry)
- 星x1 | Chapter Rank #664star; heavenly body; satellite; small amount
- 先后x1 | Chapter Rank #665early or late; first and last; priority; in succession; one after another
- 写x3 | Chapter Rank #184used in 寫意|写意[xie4 yi4]to write
- 编x2 | Chapter Rank #297to weave; to plait; to organize; to group; to arrange; to edit; to compile; to write; to compose; to fabricate; to make up
- 甚至x1 | Chapter Rank #666even; so much so that
- 联手x1 | Chapter Rank #667lit. to join hands; to act together
- 办x1 | Chapter Rank #668to take care of (a matter); to deal with (a task, procedure etc); to organize (an event); to establish; to set up; to manage; to run (an enterprise); (law) to handle; to investigate; to prosecute (a case or suspect); (bound form) office (as in 招辦|招办[zhao1 ban4], admissions office) (abbr. for 辦公室|办公室[ban4 gong1 shi4])
- 一家x1 | Chapter Rank #669the whole family; the same family; the family ... (when preceded by a family name); group
- 出版社x1 | Chapter Rank #670publishing house
- 当年x1 | Chapter Rank #671that very same yearin those days; back then; in those years; to be in the prime of life
- 北平x1 | Chapter Rank #672Peiping or Beiping (name of Beijing at different periods, esp. 1928-1949)
- 更加x1 | Chapter Rank #673more (than sth else); even more
- 政治化x1 | Chapter Rank #674to politicize
- 年轻人x2 | Chapter Rank #298young people; youngster
- 看起来x1 | Chapter Rank #675seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be