Vocabulary: 安徒生童话
- divine; hallow; holy; sacred
- outdoor
- birds and beasts; fauna
- tower (of building)
- to hit with a piercing blow
- to hold in one's arms; to embrace
- sharp; intense; penetrating; pointed; acute (illness)
- one of (sth); one out of a multitude; one (third, quarter, percent etc)
- huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)
- to shine upon; to reflect
- minute; tiny; negligible; insignificant
- to enlarge; to magnify
- blemish; flaw; defect
- to stand out clearly; to make prominent
- ice; CL:塊|块[kuai4]; to chill sth; (of an object or substance) to feel cold; (of a person) cold; unfriendly; (slang) methamphetamine
- to wail
- lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures; CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1]; (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic
- termite; to bore (of insects)
- to snap sth off; to break
- oneself; one's own family
- original spot; previous place; where it was before
- infant; baby; CL:個|个[ge4]; lead (Pb)
- stealthily; secretly; covertly; furtively; on the sly
- bridge of the nose
- to put goods on shelves; (of a product) to be available for sale
- trick; drama; play; show; CL:齣|出[chu1],場|场[chang3],臺|台[tai2]
- 仿 fǎng: 仿 fang3: to imitate; to copy仿 fǎng: 仿 fang3: used in 彷彿|仿佛[fang3 fu2]; (Note: While 仿 is not officially designated as the simplified form of 彷, it serves as the de facto simplification when 彷 is pronounced fǎng.)
- to imitate to perfection; to be remarkably true to life
- other people; bystanders; onlookers; outsiders
- can't help (doing sth); can't refrain from
- to imitate; to copy; to emulate; to mimic; model
- strange; weird; eccentric; bizarre
- words and actions; what one says and what one does
- haunted; to haunt; to cause mischief
- wholeheartedly; (to devote oneself) heart and soul
- to escape; to run away; to flee
- increasingly; more and more; ever more; all the more
- lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains; give him an inch, and he'll want a mile