Vocabulary: 第一章 蜃景隐现
from 白鲸
- 或x5 | Chapter Rank #63maybe; perhaps; might; possibly; or
- 拴x1 | Chapter Rank #411to tie up
- 柜台x1 | Chapter Rank #412sales counter; front desk; bar; (of financial trading, medicines etc) OTC (over-the-counter)
- 钉x1 | Chapter Rank #413nail; to follow closely; to keep at sb (to do sth)to join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points; to nail; to pin; to staple; to sew on
- 板凳x1 | Chapter Rank #414wooden bench or stool; CL:張|张[zhang1],條|条[tiao2]
- 困x1 | Chapter Rank #415to trap; to surround; hard-pressed; stranded; destitutesleepy; tired
- 书案x1 | Chapter Rank #416writing desk; official record
- 旁x1 | Chapter Rank #417one side; other; different; lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dao1], 亻[ren2] etc)
- 怎么x1 | Chapter Rank #418how?; what?; why?
- 这样x3 | Chapter Rank #101this way; like this; so; (before a noun) this kind of; such
- 绿色x1 | Chapter Rank #419green
- 原野x1 | Chapter Rank #420plain; open country
- 消失x1 | Chapter Rank #421to disappear; to fade away
- 无踪x1 | Chapter Rank #422(to vanish) without a trace
- 吗x4 | Chapter Rank #77(coll.) what?used in 嗎啡|吗啡[ma3 fei1](question particle for "yes-no" questions)
- 这里x4 | Chapter Rank #78here
- 干什么x1 | Chapter Rank #423what are you doing?; what's he up to?
- 可是x2 | Chapter Rank #162but; however; (used for emphasis) indeed
- 哪x1 | Chapter Rank #424used in 哪吒[Ne2 zha1]; Taiwan pr. [nuo2]how; which(emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a5] after a word ending in "n")which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)
- 径直x1 | Chapter Rank #425directly
- 走向x1 | Chapter Rank #426direction; strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology); inclination; trend; to move towards; to head for
- 似乎x1 | Chapter Rank #427it seems; seemingly; as if
- 去x6 | Chapter Rank #48to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- 跳水x1 | Chapter Rank #428to dive (into water); (sports) diving; to commit suicide by jumping into water; (fig.) (of stock prices etc) to fall dramatically
- 奇怪x1 | Chapter Rank #429strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled
- 除了x1 | Chapter Rank #430apart 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")
- 尽头x1 | Chapter Rank #431end; extremity; limit
- 能x3 | Chapter Rank #102surname Nengcan; to be able to; might possibly; ability; (physics) energy
- 满足x2 | Chapter Rank #163to satisfy; to meet (the needs of); satisfied; content
- 远处x2 | Chapter Rank #164distant place
- 阴凉x1 | Chapter Rank #432shady
- 背风x1 | Chapter Rank #433
- 仓库x1 | Chapter Rank #434depot; storehouse; warehouse
- 那边x3 | Chapter Rank #103over there; yonder
- 闲荡x1 | Chapter Rank #435
- 嫌x1 | Chapter Rank #436to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 嫌犯[xian2 fan4], criminal suspect
- 不够x1 | Chapter Rank #437not enough; insufficient; inadequate
- 不x6 | Chapter Rank #49no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 非得x1 | Chapter Rank #438(followed by a verb phrase, then – optionally – 不可, or 不行 etc) must
- 尽可能x1 | Chapter Rank #439as far as possible; to the best of one's abilitysee 儘可能|尽可能[jin3 ke3 neng2]
- 靠近x1 | Chapter Rank #440to be close to; to approach; to draw near
- 只要x4 | Chapter Rank #79so long as; provided; if
- 掉x1 | Chapter Rank #441to fall; to drop; to lag behind; to lose; to go missing; to reduce; fall (in prices); to lose (value, weight etc); to wag; to swing; to turn; to change; to exchange; to swap; to show off; to shed (hair); (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)
- 进水x1 | Chapter Rank #442to have water get in (one's ear, shoes etc); to get flooded; inflow of water
- 几里x1 | Chapter Rank #443
- 长x4 | Chapter Rank #80long; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte; (bound form) to be good at; (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4])chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop; to increase; to enhance
- 甚至x2 | Chapter Rank #165even; so much so that
- 十几里x1 | Chapter Rank #444
- 全都x1 | Chapter Rank #445all; without exception
- 内陆x1 | Chapter Rank #446inland; interior