Vocabulary: 安徒生童话
- 工夫 gōng fu: 工夫 gong1 fu5: period of time (may be months, or mere seconds); spare time; skill; labor; effort工夫 gōng fū: 工夫 gong1 fu1: (old) laborer
- to bloom; to blossom; to flower; (fig.) to burst; to split open; (fig.) to burst with joy; (fig.) to spring up everywhere; to flourish
- willing (to do sth); to take pleasure in
- drink; drinking or drinkable (water)
- dew; fig. short-lasting; ephemeral
- to take in; to absorb; to admit; to accept
- heavy rain; CL:場|场[chang2]
- moisture content; (fig.) overstatement; padding
- to exist; to survive
- earth; mother earth
- to assign; to entrust (a task); to give; to bestow
- (idiom) in an unending stream; continuous
- lit. the cycle comes back to the start (idiom); to move in circles; the wheel comes full circle
- excessively; too
- monotonous
- deep level; deep-seated; in-depth
- gift; innate skill
- to shock; to astonish
- what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth?
- to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander; news; (coll.) to delay; to dilly-dally
- (idiom) (originally, in Mencius) to cultivate one's moral character in solitude; (modern sense) to look after only one's own interests
- to exert oneself
- at worst; if worst comes to worst; (usu. in the negative) serious; alarming
- position; standpoint; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to block up (a road, pipe etc); to stop up (a hole); (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress; wall (literary); (classifier for walls)
- it may be assumed that
- end; finish
- completely focused; free of distractions
- to belong to; affiliated to; to result in sth; to incline towards
- dust
- to remember; to recall; memory
- to spurn; to disdain
- to be able to use; useable; to have a use for; (in a question) to be necessary to
- to change; to alter; to transform
- ankle
- to turn red; to blush; to flush
- village
- to gather; to collect