Vocabulary: 百年孤独
- train station
- personal; oneself
- telephone; CL:部[bu4]; phone call; CL:通[tong1]; phone number
- handle; video game controller
- simple and easy; simplistic; simplicity
- to easily trust; gullible; naïve
- experiment; test; CL:次[ci4],個|个[ge4]; to experiment; experimental
- limit; extreme boundary
- often; constantly
- to sway; to wobble; to waver
- to confuse; to be puzzled
- to distinguish (between different things); to make distinctions clear
- illusion; mirage
- intricate; complicated; tangled; involved; to synthesize
- ghost
- to be unable to hold back
- in broad daylight
- to fix a time; fixed time; timed (of explosive etc)
- tube; cylinder; to encase in sth cylindrical (such as hands in sleeves etc)
- 易 yì: 易 yi4: easy; amiable; to change; to exchange; prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"易 Yì: 易 Yi4: surname Yi; I Ching; Book of Changes (abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1])
- lit. to have a tongue like the reed of a wind instrument (idiom); fig. to have a glib tongue
- reed (of a music instrument); spring; coil
- trader; peddler
- to overflow; to inundate; to flood; (fig.) to proliferate unchecked
- pressure cooker
- to be saved
- to devote oneself to spiritual development (esp. Buddhism or Daoism); to devote oneself to perfecting one's art or craft
- law; rule; code
- in the ordinary course of events; ordinarily; normally
- to make a fool out of; to fool; to dupe
- foreground; vista; (future) prospects; perspective
- to lobby; to campaign; to promote (an idea, a product); (old) to visit various rulers and promote one's political ideas (in the Warring States period)
- easy; straightforward; likely; liable to; apt to
- taken in (by sb's deceit); to be fooled; to be duped
- considerable (cost etc); bountiful (crop etc); high (social status etc)
- (idiom) to talk big; to sound off; to be full of hot air
- cork
- hat; cap
- to put goods on shelves; (of a product) to be available for sale
- short and stout; dumpy; roly-poly
- Herbert (name)