Vocabulary: 百年孤独
- bony (of people); craggy; rugged (of terrain); upright (of people)
- one's employment; business; matter that needs to be settled; (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding; trying; troublesome; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- 兹 zī: 兹 zi1: (literary) this; (literary) now; (literary) year兹 cí: 兹 ci2: used in 龜茲|龟兹[Qiu1 ci2]
- 克 kè: 克 ke4: to be able to; to subdue; to restrain; to overcome; gram; Tibetan unit of land area, about 6 ares克 Kè: 克 Ke4: abbr. for 克羅地亞|克罗地亚[Ke4 luo2 di4 ya4], Croatia; (Tw) abbr. for 克羅埃西亞|克罗埃西亚[Ke4 luo2 ai1 xi1 ya4], Croatia克 Kè: 克 Ke4: Ke (c. 2000 BC), seventh of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God克 kè: 克 ke4: to subdue; to overthrow; to restrain
- cloth head covering worn by men in ancient times; headscarf (typically worn by women); kerchief; turban
- funny news item; interesting anecdote
- anecdote; lost or apocryphal story about famous person
- remnant; relic; residue; vestige; surplus; to remain; to leave surplus
- corpse; dead body
- to bury
- to assign; to appoint; assignment
- to press; to urge; to hasten
- radical; extreme; extremist
- reform; CL:次[ci4],種|种[zhong3],項|项[xiang4]; to reform
- rivers pour away by the day (idiom); going from bad to worse; deteriorating day by day
- to open one's eyes
- fait accompli
- to examine; to investigate; to censor out; censorship
- 百 bǎi: 百 bai3: hundred; numerous; all kinds of百 Bǎi: 百 Bai3: surname Bai
- to occupy by force
- (usu. pejorative) conduct; behavior; act; path; trail
- document; official correspondence; secretary; secretariat
- to write off at one stroke
- (political, economic etc) affairs; work; transaction (as in a computer database)
- stubborn; willful; pigheaded; Taiwan pr. [zhi2ao4]
- to save; to assist; to rescue
- life
- (formal) widow
- finger segment; knuckle
- phosphorescence
- will-o'-the-wisp; jack-o'-lantern
- to stagnate; to congeal; (fig.) to stop still; to freeze
- to persuade; persuasion; to advise
- to make better; to improve
- to take one's anger out on sb (who does not deserve it)
- to see through; disillusioned with; to reject (the world of mortals)
- ostentatious; pretentious; showy
- letter; epistle
- (idiom) howling wind and torrential rain; furious storm; (fig.) (idiom) difficult circumstances; dangerous situation
- entity; substance; thing that has a material existence (as opposed to a conceptual, virtual or online existence); the real thing (as opposed to an image or model of it)