Vocabulary: 第十七章 斋戒
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- 长时间x3 | Chapter Rank #106
- 可能x5 | Chapter Rank #61might (happen); possible; probable; possibility; probability; maybe; perhaps; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 中风x4 | Chapter Rank #77to suffer a paralyzing stroke
- 往x1 | Chapter Rank #375to go (in a direction); to; towards; (of a train) bound for; past; previous
- 里x8 | Chapter Rank #45lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裏|里[li3]Li (surname)li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m; neighborhood; ancient administrative unit of 25 families; (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
- 看x6 | Chapter Rank #53to look after; to take care of; to watch; to guardto see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for
- 偏偏x1 | Chapter Rank #376(indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened; (indicating that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly; contrarily; against reason; (indicating that sb or a group is singled out) precisely; only; of all people
- 门x4 | Chapter Rank #78gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4]); valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure; way to do sth; knack; method; approach; family; household; lineage; (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic); (bound form) class; category; division; phylum; classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc; (suffix) -gate (scandal)surname Men
- 朝向x1 | Chapter Rank #377toward; to face; to open onto; to turn towards; orientation; exposure; Qibla (Islam)
- 僻x1 | Chapter Rank #378(bound form) remote; out of the way; off-center; eccentric
- 角x1 | Chapter Rank #379role (theater); to compete; ancient three legged wine vessel; third note of pentatonic scalesurname Jueangle; corner; horn; horn-shaped; unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime); CL:個|个[ge4]
- 只能x1 | Chapter Rank #380can only; obliged to do sth; to have no other choice
- 看见x1 | Chapter Rank #381to see; to catch sight of
- 偏左x1 | Chapter Rank #382
- 拐角x1 | Chapter Rank #383to turn a corner; corner
- 除了x1 | Chapter Rank #384apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- 床铺x2 | Chapter Rank #185bed
- 踏脚板x1 | Chapter Rank #385
- 一部分x3 | Chapter Rank #107portion; part of; subset
- 一段x1 | Chapter Rank #386
- 墙壁x1 | Chapter Rank #387wall
- 再x2 | Chapter Rank #186again; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time; (before an adjective) more; then (after sth, and not until then); no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis); (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4 ze2], 再就是[zai4 jiu4 shi4] etc); (literary) to reappear; to reoccur
- 看不到x1 | Chapter Rank #388
- 吃惊x1 | Chapter Rank #389to be startled; to be shocked; to be amazed
- 地x10 | Chapter Rank #32-ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunctearth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]
- 发现x1 | Chapter Rank #390to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect; a discovery
- 墙上x2 | Chapter Rank #187
- 斜倚x1 | Chapter Rank #391to recline
- 标枪x5 | Chapter Rank #62javelin
- 木头x3 | Chapter Rank #108wood; log (CL:塊|块[kuai4],根[gen1]); (fig.) blockhead; dolt
- 枪杆x1 | Chapter Rank #392gun barrel
- 昨天晚上x1 | Chapter Rank #393
- 老板娘x6 | Chapter Rank #54female proprietor; lady boss; boss's wife
- 上楼去x1 | Chapter Rank #394
- 把x21 | Chapter Rank #10to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb})handle
- 收走x1 | Chapter Rank #395
- 心想x2 | Chapter Rank #188to think to oneself; to think
- 真是x2 | Chapter Rank #189indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc)
- 奇怪x2 | Chapter Rank #190strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled
- 但x3 | Chapter Rank #109but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just
- 无论如何x1 | Chapter Rank #396(idiom) whatever the case; in any event; no matter what; by all possible means
- 既然x1 | Chapter Rank #397since; as; this being the case
- 立x1 | Chapter Rank #398surname Lito stand; to set up; to establish; to lay down; to draw up; at once; immediately
- 那边x1 | Chapter Rank #399over there; yonder
- 很少x1 | Chapter Rank #400
- 或x3 | Chapter Rank #110maybe; perhaps; might; possibly; or
- 根本x2 | Chapter Rank #191fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 不会x3 | Chapter Rank #111improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all
- 带x2 | Chapter Rank #192band; belt; girdle; ribbon; tire; area; zone; region; CL:條|条[tiao2]; to wear; to carry; to take along; to bear (i.e. to have); to lead; to bring; to look after; to raise
- 出门x2 | Chapter Rank #193to go out; to leave home; to go on a journey; away from home; (of a woman) to get married