Vocabulary: 王元化：“我是十九世纪之子”
from 安身立命：大时代中的知识人
- 晚x2 | Chapter Rank #389evening; night; late
- 认识x4 | Chapter Rank #200to know; to recognize; to be familiar with; to get acquainted with sb; knowledge; understanding; awareness; cognition
- 时候x11 | Chapter Rank #70time; length of time; moment; period
- 他x87 | Chapter Rank #4(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])
- 已x4 | Chapter Rank #201already; to stop; then; afterwards
- 步入x2 | Chapter Rank #390to step into; to enter
- 晚年x15 | Chapter Rank #58one's later years
- 岁月x3 | Chapter Rank #262years; time
- 世纪x24 | Chapter Rank #30century
- 相交x1 | Chapter Rank #719(of roads, lines etc) to intersect; (of people) to associate with one another; to become friends
- 风雨如晦x1 | Chapter Rank #720lit. wind and rain darken the sky (idiom); fig. the situation looks grim
- 有幸x1 | Chapter Rank #721fortunately
- 近距离x2 | Chapter Rank #391close range
- 见证x1 | Chapter Rank #722to be witness to; witness; evidence
- 生命x6 | Chapter Rank #133life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:條|条[tiao2])
- 最后x6 | Chapter Rank #134final; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
- 在世x1 | Chapter Rank #723to be alive
- 之时x1 | Chapter Rank #724
- 评点x1 | Chapter Rank #725to comment; a point by point commentary
- 江山x1 | Chapter Rank #726rivers and mountains; landscape; country; state powersee 江山市[Jiang1 shan1 Shi4]
- 坐而论道x1 | Chapter Rank #727to sit and pontificate; to find answers through theory and not through practice (idiom)
- 感觉x4 | Chapter Rank #202feeling; impression; sensation; to feel; to perceive
- 再x2 | Chapter Rank #392again; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time; (before an adjective) more; then (after sth, and not until then); no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis); (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4 ze2], 再就是[zai4 jiu4 shi4] etc); (literary) to reappear; to reoccur
- 平常x1 | Chapter Rank #728ordinary; common; usually; ordinarily
- 不过x3 | Chapter Rank #263only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- 人x45 | Chapter Rank #16person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- 一旦x3 | Chapter Rank #264in case (sth happens); if; once (sth happens, then...); when; in a short time; in one day
- 远去x1 | Chapter Rank #729
- 熟悉x1 | Chapter Rank #730to be familiar with; to know well
- 身影x1 | Chapter Rank #731silhouette; figure
- 消失x1 | Chapter Rank #732to disappear; to fade away
- 苍茫x1 | Chapter Rank #733boundless; vast; hazy (distant horizon)
- 地平线x1 | Chapter Rank #734horizon
- 骤然x1 | Chapter Rank #735suddenly; abruptly
- 到x17 | Chapter Rank #50to reach; to arrive; to leave for; to go to; to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point); (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point); considerate; thoughtful; thorough
- 内x3 | Chapter Rank #265inside; inner; internal; within; interior
- 心中x2 | Chapter Rank #393central point; in one's thoughts; in one's heart
- 塌x1 | Chapter Rank #736to collapse; to droop; to settle down
- 一大块x1 | Chapter Rank #737
- 个x25 | Chapter Rank #29used in 自個兒|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5](classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual
- 残缺x1 | Chapter Rank #738badly damaged; shattered
- 弥合x1 | Chapter Rank #739to cause a wound to close up and heal
- 这x16 | Chapter Rank #56(pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)(coll.) this
- 种x21 | Chapter Rank #34to plant; to grow; to cultivateseed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts
- 崩塌x1 | Chapter Rank #740talus slide; to crumble (of scree slope); to collapse; landslide
- 不仅x5 | Chapter Rank #160not just; not limited to; (as a correlative conjunction) not only (..., but also ...)
- 属于x3 | Chapter Rank #266to belong to; to fall under (a category)
- 个人x1 | Chapter Rank #741individual; personal; oneself
- 整个x2 | Chapter Rank #394whole; entire; total
- 中国x19 | Chapter Rank #41China