Vocabulary: 安徒生童话
- directly
- direction; strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology); inclination; trend; to move towards; to head for
- stove
- stove; oven; furnace
- to catch fire
- to assemble; to gather
- strange; unfamiliar
- visitor; guest; customer; client; CL:位[wei4]
- trafficker; dealer; monger; peddler
- extravagant; liberal with money
- British person; British people
- pocket (in a garment)
- to support; to prop up; to push or move with a pole; to maintain; to open or unfurl; to fill to bursting point; brace; stay; support
- (idiom) (of a pocket, pouch etc) full and bulging
- to bet; to make a bet; a wager
- (onom.) sizzle, hiss, slurp etc
- hiss; neigh; Ss! (sound of air sucked between the teeth, indicating hesitation or thinking over)
- gradually
- everyone; owner
- originally; at first; at the outset
- to exchange (sth) for (sth else); to replace with; to convert into
- soft; mushy; well-cooked and soft; to rot; to decompose; rotten; worn out; chaotic; messy; utterly; thoroughly; crappy; bad
- well; carefully; nicely; properly
- to bestow (a reward); to give (to an inferior); to hand down; a reward (bestowed by a superior); to appreciate (beauty)
- trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble
- lit. to punch and kick (idiom); to beat up; fig. determined to sort out a problem
- often; frequently
- 打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")
- to bet; to gamble
- 金子 Jīn zǐ: 金子 Jin1 zi3: Kaneko (Japanese surname)金子 jīn zi: 金子 jin1 zi5: gold
- stake (in a gamble); (what is at) stake
- pound sterling
- 磅 bàng: 磅 bang4: scale (instrument for weighing); to weigh; (loanword) pound (unit of weight, about 454 grams); (printing) point (unit used to measure the size of type); (Tw) (printing) pound; ream weight (used to describe paper thickness)磅 páng: 磅 pang2: used in 磅礡|磅礴[pang2 bo2]; Taiwan pr. [pang1]
- bushel (eight gallons)
- to reply; to answer; reply; answer
- taking everything into account (idiom); when all is said and done
- to leave port; to put off
- to get into; to dig into (studies, job etc); to squeeze into
- car or other vehicle (bicycle, truck etc)