Vocabulary: 傲慢与偏见
- (idiom) after one's own heart; gratifying; satisfactory; everything one could wish
- to fantasize; to imagine; an illusion; a fantasy
- to be shattered; to be annihilated (of hope, illusions etc)
- privately; secretly; confidentially
- front; obverse side; right side; positive; direct; open
- to send back information; feedback
- to lose one's voice; (to cry out) involuntarily
- to relate (a story or information); to tell or talk about; to recount; narration; telling; narrative; account
- course of events; process
- (idiom) not bat an eyelid
- to come as no surprise; as expected
- normal state
- tranquil; undisturbed; serene
- to make a fuss about nothing (idiom)
- to have no opportunity; no way (of doing sth); no chance; no connection; not placed (in a competition); (in pop lyrics) no chance of love, no place to be together etc
- cannot get; cannot obtain
- the affection, or heart, of a young woman
- not to allow; must not; can't
- (literary) (lit.) to fix one's gaze on; (fig.) to show interest in; (favorable) attention; favor
- not long ago; not long before
- romantic
- sense of security
- lover; sweetheart
- flat; dull; ordinary; nothing special
- to reflect on; to ponder over
- rare; strange
- without the slightest hesitation
- beautiful; fine
- to submit; to yield; to bow to sb's will
- profane; secular; worldly
- grieved; sorrowful
- to conclude; to determine; to come to a judgment
- to have the right to; to be entitled to; to have authority; powerful
- to entrust; to trust; to commission
- to declare; to announce; to proclaim
- 结 jiē: 结 jie1: (of a plant) to produce (fruit or seeds); Taiwan pr. [jie2]结 jié: 结 jie2: knot; sturdy; bond; to tie; to bind; to check out (of a hotel)
- rash; impudent
- rash; reckless
- court (of king or emperor)