Vocabulary: 第十四章 楠塔基特
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- 兵舰x1 | Chapter Rank #358warship
- 漂浮x1 | Chapter Rank #359to float; to hover; to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life); to rove; showy; superficial
- 堡垒x1 | Chapter Rank #360fort
- 海盗船x1 | Chapter Rank #361
- 私x1 | Chapter Rank #362personal; private; selfish
- 掠x1 | Chapter Rank #363to take over by force; to rob; to plunder; to brush over; to skim; to sweep
- 虽然x1 | Chapter Rank #364although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是[ke3 shi4] or 但是[dan4 shi4] etc)
- 行x2 | Chapter Rank #88used in 道行[dao4 heng2](bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit; (bound form) temporary; makeshift; (bound form) current; in circulation; (bound form) to do; to perform; capable; competent; all right; OK!; will do; behavior; conduct (Taiwan pr. [xing4]); (literary) about to; soon(bound form) row; line; (bound form) line of business; trade; profession; (bound form) commercial firm; (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age); (in data tables) row; (Tw) column; classifier for rows or lines
- 剪径x1 | Chapter Rank #365to waylay and rob; highway robbery
- 强盗x1 | Chapter Rank #366to rob (with force); bandit; robber; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 大道x1 | Chapter Rank #367main street; avenue
- 通衢x1 | Chapter Rank #368
- 却x1 | Chapter Rank #369but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though
- 只是x2 | Chapter Rank #89merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however
- 抢劫x1 | Chapter Rank #370to rob; looting
- 别人x1 | Chapter Rank #371other people; others; other person
- 自己x1 | Chapter Rank #372oneself; (attributive) one's own
- 片x2 | Chapter Rank #90thin piece; flake; a slice; film; TV play; to slice; to carve thin; partial; incomplete; one-sided; classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water; classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc; used with numeral 一[yi1]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc; Kangxi radical 91disk; sheet
- 陆地x5 | Chapter Rank #22dry land (as opposed to the sea)
- 未曾x1 | Chapter Rank #373hasn't (or haven't); hasn't ever
- 想x1 | Chapter Rank #374to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
- 过x1 | Chapter Rank #375surname Guoto cross; to go over; to pass (time); to celebrate (a holiday); to live; to get along; excessively; too-(experienced action marker)
- 深不见底x1 | Chapter Rank #376so deep one cannot see to the bottom; limitless
- 本身x1 | Chapter Rank #377itself; in itself; per se
- 讨生活x1 | Chapter Rank #378to eke out a living; to live from hand to mouth; to drift aimlessly
- 居住x1 | Chapter Rank #379to reside; to dwell; to live in a place; resident in
- 横行无忌x1 | Chapter Rank #380
- 圣经x1 | Chapter Rank #381the Confucian classics; (Christianity, Judaism) the holy scriptures; CL:本[ben3],部[bu4]
- 说x1 | Chapter Rank #382to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrineto persuade
- 他x7 | Chapter Rank #13(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])
- 独自x1 | Chapter Rank #383alone
- 坐船x1 | Chapter Rank #384
- 下海x1 | Chapter Rank #385to go out to sea; to enter the sea (to swim etc); (fig.) to take the plunge (e.g. leave a secure job, or enter prostitution etc)
- 反复x1 | Chapter Rank #386repeatedly; over and over; to upend; unstable; to come and go; (of an illness) to return
- 耕耘x1 | Chapter Rank #387plowing and weeding; farm work; fig. to work or study diligently
- 仿佛x1 | Chapter Rank #388to seem; as if; seemingly; alike; similar
- 独有x1 | Chapter Rank #389to own exclusively; unique to; specific; there is only
- 种植园x1 | Chapter Rank #390plantation
- 他的x2 | Chapter Rank #91
- 家x1 | Chapter Rank #391used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 生意x1 | Chapter Rank #392life force; vitalitybusiness; CL:筆|笔[bi3]
- 诺亚x1 | Chapter Rank #393Noah
- 不能x1 | Chapter Rank #394cannot; must not; should not
- 打断x1 | Chapter Rank #395to interrupt; to break off; to break (a bone)
- 尽管x1 | Chapter Rank #396despite; although; even though; in spite of; unhesitatingly; do not hesitate (to ask, complain etc); (go ahead and do it) without hesitating
- 大水x1 | Chapter Rank #397flood
- 中国x1 | Chapter Rank #398China
- 淹没x1 | Chapter Rank #399to submerge; to drown; to flood; to drown out (also fig.)
- 数以百万计x1 | Chapter Rank #400
- 人口x1 | Chapter Rank #401population; people