Vocabulary: 百年孤独
- to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc); (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge; (bound form) to govern; to rule; (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China)
- 任 rèn: 任 ren4: to assign; to appoint; to take up a post; office; responsibility; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter (how, what etc); classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)任 Rén: 任 Ren2: surname Ren
- to make a fuss about nothing (idiom)
- simple home-style meal; common occurrence; nothing out of the ordinary
- regular; usual; normal; usually; normally
- (idiom) reckoned to be best or second best; one of the very best; (idiom) to list one by one
- viviparity; zoogony
- land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule
- swift; rapidly
- 省 shěng: 省 sheng3: to save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out; province; provincial capital; a ministry (of the Japanese government)省 xǐng: 省 xing3: (bound form) to scrutinize; (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct); (bound form) to come to realize; (bound form) to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders)
- great-grandson
- to have a few drinks; to drink to one's heart's content
- to multiply; to reproduce; to increase gradually in number or quantity
- unrelated; having nothing to do (with sth else)
- to catalyze (a reaction); catalysis
- ancestors; forefathers; ancestry
- sturdy; thick and strong
- to indulge oneself
- predecessor; forebears; the person facing you
- prolific; fertile; high yield
- 症 zhèng: 症 zheng4: disease; illness症 zhēng: 症 zheng1: abdominal tumor; bowel obstruction; (fig.) sticking point
- 好事 hǎo shì: 好事 hao3 shi4: good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity; happy occasion; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead好事 hào shì: 好事 hao4 shi4: to be meddlesome
- end (of a period); last part; final phase
- to scrape a meager living; to get by with difficulty
- to loot; to ransack; to pillage
- 储 chǔ: 储 chu3: (bound form) to store up; to keep in reserve; heir to the throne; Taiwan pr. [chu2]储 Chǔ: 储 Chu3: surname Chu; Taiwan pr. [Chu2]
- frivolous; careless; giddy
- to seek pleasure (esp. sexual)
- to shout
- foolish
- toad
- to assume sb's name and take his place (idiom); to impersonate; to pose under a false name
- languid; indolent
- to possess; to have; equipped with; able to fulfill (conditions or requirements)
- 勾 gōu: 勾 gou1: to attract; to arouse; to tick; to strike out; to delineate; to collude勾 Gōu: 勾 Gou1: surname Gou勾 gòu: 勾 gou4: used in 勾當|勾当[gou4 dang4]
- sentiment; feeling
- all; without any exceptions; categorically
- 营生 yíng sheng: 营生 ying2 sheng5: (coll.) job; work营生 yíng shēng: 营生 ying2 sheng1: to earn a living