Vocabulary: 顾城：在诗意与残忍之间
from 安身立命：大时代中的知识人
- 最好x1 | Chapter Rank #480best; had better ...; it would be best to ...
- 食x2 | Chapter Rank #239to eat; food; animal feed; eclipseto feed (a person or animal)
- 人间烟火x2 | Chapter Rank #240
- 全身心x1 | Chapter Rank #481wholeheartedly; (to devote oneself) heart and soul
- 逃避x1 | Chapter Rank #482to escape; to evade; to avoid; to shirk
- 于x3 | Chapter Rank #156to go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particlesurname Yu(of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by
- 可以x9 | Chapter Rank #50can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good
- 这样x4 | Chapter Rank #112this way; like this; so; (before a noun) this kind of; such
- 肉体x1 | Chapter Rank #483physical body
- 存在x9 | Chapter Rank #51to exist; to be; existence
- 或x2 | Chapter Rank #241maybe; perhaps; might; possibly; or
- 愿x2 | Chapter Rank #242honest and prudent(bound form) wish; hope; desire; to be willing; to wish (that sth may happen); may ...; vow; pledge
- 为x15 | Chapter Rank #25as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice)because of; for; to
- 精神x10 | Chapter Rank #41spirit; mind; consciousness; thought; mental; psychological; essence; gist; CL:個|个[ge4]vigor; vitality; spirited; good-looking
- 而x16 | Chapter Rank #19and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast)
- 活着x4 | Chapter Rank #113alive
- 整日x1 | Chapter Rank #484all day long; the whole day
- 折磨x1 | Chapter Rank #485to torment; to torture
- 奇奇怪怪x1 | Chapter Rank #486
- 念头x1 | Chapter Rank #487thought; idea; intention
- 北岛x1 | Chapter Rank #488Bei Dao (1949-), Chinese poet
- 愤世嫉俗x1 | Chapter Rank #489to be cynical; to be embittered
- 充满x4 | Chapter Rank #114full of; brimming with; very full; permeated
- 生命x7 | Chapter Rank #64life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:條|条[tiao2])
- 情趣x1 | Chapter Rank #490inclinations and interests; delight; fun; interest; appeal
- 却是x5 | Chapter Rank #92nevertheless; actually; the fact is ...
- 反x1 | Chapter Rank #491contrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down; to reverse; to return; to oppose; opposite; against; anti-; to rebel; to use analogy; instead; abbr. for 反切[fan3 qie4] phonetic system
- 怀疑x3 | Chapter Rank #157to doubt (sth); to be skeptical of; to have one's doubts; to harbor suspicions; to suspect that
- 沟通x1 | Chapter Rank #492to join; to connect; to link up; to communicate
- 必要x2 | Chapter Rank #243necessary; essential; indispensable; required
- 可能x1 | Chapter Rank #493might (happen); possible; probable; possibility; probability; maybe; perhaps; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 可靠性x1 | Chapter Rank #494reliability
- 真实性x1 | Chapter Rank #495authenticity; truthfulness; veracity; reality; validity
- 这个x4 | Chapter Rank #115(pronoun) this; (adjective) this
- 无奈x1 | Chapter Rank #496to have no alternative; frustrated; exasperated; helpless; (conjunction) but unfortunately
- 生存x2 | Chapter Rank #244to exist; to survive
- 其间x1 | Chapter Rank #497in between; within that interval; in the meantime
- 世俗社会x2 | Chapter Rank #245
- 承担x1 | Chapter Rank #498to undertake; to assume (responsibility etc)
- 一切x7 | Chapter Rank #65everything; every; all
- 义务x1 | Chapter Rank #499duty; obligation (CL:項|项[xiang4]); volunteer (work etc)
- 责任x2 | Chapter Rank #246responsibility; duty; liability
- 所有x4 | Chapter Rank #116all; to have; to possess; to own
- 乌托邦x16 | Chapter Rank #20(loanword) utopia
- 理想主义者x6 | Chapter Rank #76
- 现代化x1 | Chapter Rank #500modernization; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 大都市x1 | Chapter Rank #501metropolis; large city; megacity
- 厌恶x1 | Chapter Rank #502to loathe; to hate; disgusted with sth
- 情x1 | Chapter Rank #503(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
- 认定x2 | Chapter Rank #247to maintain (that sth is true); to determine (a fact); determination (of an amount); of the firm opinion; to believe firmly; to set one's mind on; to identify with