Vocabulary: 百年孤独
- grieved; sorrowful
- to shine; to illuminate
- colony; colonial
- to inquire into; to ask after
- to be as if...; to be rather like...
- last time
- barber; hairdresser
- jewelry; head ornament
- to decorate; decoration; decorative; ornamental
- to put to the torch (idiom); to commit to the flames; to burn sth down deliberately
- insect that eats into wood, books, clothes etc; fig. vermin
- question; interrogation; doubt
- to solve (a problem); to resolve (a difficulty); to provide an answer; solution; resolution; answer
- raised high; (of a person) slender; tall and thin (Taiwan pr. [gao1tiao1])
- 削 xuē: 削 xue1: to pare; to reduce; to remove; Taiwan pr. [xue4]削 xiāo: 削 xiao1: to peel with a knife; to pare; to cut (a ball at tennis etc)
- seersucker (cotton cloth with pattern of dimples)
- tenacious; hard to defeat
- chastity
- mark; symbol; notation; seal
- to have a holiday or vacation
- to eat too much; to binge
- to faint
- to agree; to decide after consultation; to come to a compromise
- to take care of one's family
- to play the role of; to act
- 仿 fǎng: 仿 fang3: to imitate; to copy仿 fǎng: 仿 fang3: used in 彷彿|仿佛[fang3 fu2]; (Note: While 仿 is not officially designated as the simplified form of 彷, it serves as the de facto simplification when 彷 is pronounced fǎng.)
- to be totally oblivious (to sth); to have no idea about sth
- not shaken by thunder (idiom); the arrangements are unalterable; to adhere rigidly to regulations; will go ahead whatever happens (of an arrangement or plan)
- catastrophic
- vacation
- (idiom) to act on one's own; to decide for oneself
- sixty; 60
- to go on holidays; to spend one's vacation
- one week; all the way around; a whole cycle
- to divide (into); to split a bonus; to break into; tenths; percentage allotment