Vocabulary: 第十七章 斋戒
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- 上去x2 | Chapter Rank #239to go up
- 徒劳x1 | Chapter Rank #602futile
- 就是x7 | Chapter Rank #50exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if
- 使x1 | Chapter Rank #603to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- 尽x2 | Chapter Rank #240to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority toto use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of sth); all; entirely
- 浑身解数x1 | Chapter Rank #604to give it your all; to go at it with all you've got; to throw your whole weight behind it; also pr. [hun2 shen1 jie3 shu4]
- 花言巧语x1 | Chapter Rank #605graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words; cheating wheedling; dishonest rhetoric
- 却x2 | Chapter Rank #241but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though
- 纹丝不动x1 | Chapter Rank #606to not move a single jot (idiom)
- 甚至x1 | Chapter Rank #607even; so much so that
- 存在x1 | Chapter Rank #608to exist; to be; existence
- 不在意x1 | Chapter Rank #609to pay no attention to; not to mind
- 老家x1 | Chapter Rank #610native place; place of origin; home state or region
- 岛屿x1 | Chapter Rank #611island
- 蹲坐x3 | Chapter Rank #137
- 教条x1 | Chapter Rank #612doctrine; dogma; creed; dogmatic
- 早晚x1 | Chapter Rank #613morning and evening; (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later; one of these days; (coll.) (this, or that) point of time; (dialect) at some time in the future
- 毫无疑问x1 | Chapter Rank #614certainty; without a doubt
- 这个x4 | Chapter Rank #92(pronoun) this; (adjective) this
- 样子x1 | Chapter Rank #615appearance; manner; pattern; model
- 感谢上帝x1 | Chapter Rank #616
- 年x1 | Chapter Rank #617year; CL:個|个[ge4]surname Niangrain; harvest (old)
- 才x1 | Chapter Rank #618ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only; (emphatic, esp. in contrast or correction) really; actually
- 当时x1 | Chapter Rank #619immediately; right thenthen; at that time
- 相信x1 | Chapter Rank #620to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true
- 准时x1 | Chapter Rank #621on time; punctual; on schedule
- 下楼去x1 | Chapter Rank #622
- 吃晚饭x1 | Chapter Rank #623
- 水手x2 | Chapter Rank #242mariner; sailor; seaman
- 滔滔不绝x1 | Chapter Rank #624(idiom) to produce a torrent of words; to talk on and on
- 讲述x1 | Chapter Rank #625to talk about; to narrate; to give an account
- 见闻x1 | Chapter Rank #626what one has seen and heard; knowledge; one's experience
- 所谓x1 | Chapter Rank #627what is meant by the expression ...; what is referred to as ...; (derog.) so-called
- 李子x1 | Chapter Rank #628plum; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 布丁x1 | Chapter Rank #629pudding (loanword)
- 航行x2 | Chapter Rank #243to sail; to fly; to navigate
- 归来x1 | Chapter Rank #630to return; to come back
- 那种x1 | Chapter Rank #631that kind of
- 乘x1 | Chapter Rank #632surname Chengto ride; to mount; to make use of; to avail oneself of; to take advantage of; to multiply (math.); Buddhist sect or creed(archaic) four horse military chariot; (archaic) four; generic term for history books
- 纵帆船x1 | Chapter Rank #633
- 或是x2 | Chapter Rank #244or; either one or the other
- 横x1 | Chapter Rank #634harsh and unreasonable; unexpectedhorizontal; across; crosswise; horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters); to place (sth) flat (on a surface); to cross (a river, etc); in a jumble; chaotic; (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable; violent
- 帆船x1 | Chapter Rank #635sailboat
- 短途x1 | Chapter Rank #636
- 捕鲸x1 | Chapter Rank #637to whale; to hunt whales
- 限于x1 | Chapter Rank #638to be limited to; to be confined to
- 赤道x1 | Chapter Rank #639equator (of the earth or a celestial body); celestial equator
- 以北x1 | Chapter Rank #640to the north of (suffix)
- 大西洋x1 | Chapter Rank #641Atlantic Ocean
- 完x2 | Chapter Rank #245to finish; to be over; whole; complete; entire