Vocabulary: 第六十九章 葬礼
from 白鲸
- 缓缓x1 | Chapter Rank #90slowly; unhurriedly; little by little
- 地x4 | Chapter Rank #11earth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]-ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- 越x2 | Chapter Rank #38to exceed; to climb over; to surpass; the more... the moregeneric word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods; abbr. for Vietnam 越南
- 远x2 | Chapter Rank #39far; distant; remote; (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc)to distance oneself from (classical)
- 那些x1 | Chapter Rank #91those
- 不知足x1 | Chapter Rank #92
- 鲨鱼x3 | Chapter Rank #22shark
- 将x1 | Chapter Rank #93(bound form) a general; (literary) to command; to lead; (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)to desire; to invite; to requestwill; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])
- 周围x1 | Chapter Rank #94environs; surroundings; periphery
- 海水x1 | Chapter Rank #95seawater
- 撕裂x1 | Chapter Rank #96to tear; to rip apart
- 浪花x2 | Chapter Rank #40spray; ocean spray; spindrift; fig. happenings from one's life; CL:朵[duo3]
- 泼x1 | Chapter Rank #97to splash; to spill; rough and coarse; brutish
- 溅x1 | Chapter Rank #98to splash
- 而x2 | Chapter Rank #41and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast)
- 上空x2 | Chapter Rank #42the skies above a certain place; (aviation) airspace; (Tw) topless
- 则x1 | Chapter Rank #99(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items
- 充斥x1 | Chapter Rank #100to be full of; to flood; to congest
- 着x6 | Chapter Rank #5a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to addto touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding inaspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing stateto wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to apply
- 贪婪x2 | Chapter Rank #43avaricious; greedy; rapacious; insatiable; avid
- 鸥鸟x1 | Chapter Rank #101
- 尖叫x1 | Chapter Rank #102to screech; to shriek
- 飞旋x1 | Chapter Rank #103
- 不已x1 | Chapter Rank #104(used after a verb) endlessly; incessantly
- 嘴x1 | Chapter Rank #105mouth; beak; nozzle; spout (of teapot etc); CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]
- 喙x1 | Chapter Rank #106beak; snout; mouth; to pant
- 就x6 | Chapter Rank #6(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after; (same as 就是[jiu4 shi4]) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly; only; as little as; as much as; as many as; to approach; to move towards; to undertake; to engage in; (often followed by 著|着[zhe5]) taking advantage of; (of food) to go with; with regard to; concerning; (bound form) to reach; to attain (as in 一蹴而就[yi1 cu4 er2 jiu4]); (pattern: 就[jiu4] ... 也[ye3] ...) even if ... still ...; (pattern: 不[bu4] ... 就[jiu4] ...) if not ... then must be ...
- 许多x1 | Chapter Rank #107many; a lot of; much
- 匕首x1 | Chapter Rank #108dagger
- 无礼地x1 | Chapter Rank #109
- 刺戳x1 | Chapter Rank #110to stab; to pierce
- 无头x1 | Chapter Rank #111
- 巨x1 | Chapter Rank #112very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic; (coll.) very; extremely
- 怪x1 | Chapter Rank #113odd; strange; uncanny; (bound form) monster; supernatural being; to find strange; to regard as odd; to blame; (coll.) somewhat; rather
- 漂流x1 | Chapter Rank #114to float on the current; to drift along or about; rafting
- 离x1 | Chapter Rank #115mythical beast (archaic)to leave; to part from; to be away from; (in giving distances) from; without (sth); independent of; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire; ☲surname Li
- 越来越x1 | Chapter Rank #116more and more
- 每x1 | Chapter Rank #117each; every
- 漂出x1 | Chapter Rank #118
- 一尺x1 | Chapter Rank #119
- 四周x1 | Chapter Rank #120all around
- 前进x2 | Chapter Rank #44to go forward; to forge ahead; to advance; onward
- 一米x1 | Chapter Rank #121
- 飞鸟x1 | Chapter Rank #122bird
- 一丈x1 | Chapter Rank #123
- 成x2 | Chapter Rank #45surname Cheng; short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth
- 几何级数x1 | Chapter Rank #124geometric series
- 递进x1 | Chapter Rank #125gradual progress; to go forward one stage at a time
- 杀气腾腾x1 | Chapter Rank #126ferocious; murderous-looking
- 嚣x1 | Chapter Rank #127clamor