Vocabulary: 第3章
from 百年孤独
- 端坐x1 | Chapter Rank #1943to sit upright
- 好奇x1 | Chapter Rank #1944inquisitive; curious; inquisitiveness; curiosity
- 听众x2 | Chapter Rank #759audience; listeners
- 苍老x1 | Chapter Rank #1945old; aged; (of calligraphy or painting) vigorous; forceful
- 调x1 | Chapter Rank #1946to harmonize; to reconcile; to blend; to suit well; to adjust; to regulate; to season (food); to provoke; to inciteto transfer; to move (troops or cadres); to investigate; to enquire into; accent; view; argument; key (in music); mode (music); tune; tone; melody
- 唱x1 | Chapter Rank #1947to sing; to call loudly; to chant
- 世事变迁x1 | Chapter Rank #1948
- 当年x3 | Chapter Rank #432in those days; back then; in those years; to be in the prime of lifethat very same year
- 罗利x2 | Chapter Rank #760Raleigh, capital of North Carolina
- 爵士x2 | Chapter Rank #761knight; Sir; (loanword) jazz
- 圭亚那x1 | Chapter Rank #1949Guyana
- 相赠x1 | Chapter Rank #1950
- 架x1 | Chapter Rank #1951to support; frame; rack; framework; classifier for planes, large vehicles, radios etc
- 手风琴x1 | Chapter Rank #1952accordion
- 伴奏x1 | Chapter Rank #1953to accompany (musically)
- 四方x1 | Chapter Rank #1954four-way; four-sided; in all directions; everywhere
- 走遍x2 | Chapter Rank #762
- 踩踏x1 | Chapter Rank #1955to trample on
- 硝石x1 | Chapter Rank #1956niter; saltpeter; potassium nitrate KNO3
- 皴裂x1 | Chapter Rank #1957(of lips, skin etc) to chap
- 大脚x1 | Chapter Rank #1958naturally-formed feet (as opposed to bound feet 小腳|小脚[xiao3 jiao3]); long kick (soccer); Bigfoot (mythological animal)
- 拍子x1 | Chapter Rank #1959beat (music); paddle-shaped object (flyswatter etc); racket (sports)
- 深处x2 | Chapter Rank #763abyss; depths; deepest or most distant part
- 一扇x1 | Chapter Rank #1960
- 门内x1 | Chapter Rank #1961
- 进出x1 | Chapter Rank #1962to enter and exit; to go in and out; inflow and outflow (of goods, vehicles, funds etc)
- 鸨母x4 | Chapter Rank #299female brothel keeper; a bawd
- 静静地x1 | Chapter Rank #1963
- 扇x1 | Chapter Rank #1964to fan; to slap sb on the facefan; sliding, hinged or detachable flat part of sth; classifier for doors, windows etc
- 扇子x1 | Chapter Rank #1965fan; CL:把[ba3]
- 一朵x1 | Chapter Rank #1966
- 毡x1 | Chapter Rank #1967felt (fabric)
- 绒x1 | Chapter Rank #1968velvet; woolen
- 碗x1 | Chapter Rank #1969bowl; cup; CL:隻|只[zhi1],個|个[ge4]
- 盛x1 | Chapter Rank #1970surname Shengto hold; to contain; to ladle; to pick up with a utensilflourishing; vigorous; magnificent; extensively
- 甘蔗x1 | Chapter Rank #1971sugar cane; CL:節|节[jie2]
- 酒x1 | Chapter Rank #1972wine (esp. rice wine); liquor; spirits; alcoholic beverage; CL:杯[bei1],瓶[ping2],罐[guan4],桶[tong3],缸[gang1]
- 不失时机x1 | Chapter Rank #1973to seize the opportune moment; to lose no time
- 靠近x1 | Chapter Rank #1974to be close to; to approach; to draw near
- 手x3 | Chapter Rank #433hand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work; person skilled in certain types of work; personal(ly); convenient; classifier for skill; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- 放到x1 | Chapter Rank #1975
- 不该x1 | Chapter Rank #1976should not; to owe nothing
- 放x4 | Chapter Rank #300to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks)
- 夜半x1 | Chapter Rank #1977midnight
- 时分x1 | Chapter Rank #1978time; period during the day; one of the 12 two-hour periods enumerated by the earthly branches 地支
- 酷热x1 | Chapter Rank #1979torrid heat
- 难当x1 | Chapter Rank #1980hard to endure (hot weather, itchiness etc)
- 从头x1 | Chapter Rank #1981anew; from the start
- 尾x1 | Chapter Rank #1982tail; remainder; remnant; extremity; sixth of the 28 constellations; classifier for fishhorse's tail; pointed posterior section of a locust etc
- 自家x1 | Chapter Rank #1983oneself; one's own family