Vocabulary: 百年孤独
- (husked) rice
- mud pit; mire; morass
- to catch; to grapple with; to hold onto
- to dissect (an animal); to analyze; anatomy
- old-fashioned; out of date; obsolete; antiquated
- toy figurine; action figure; stuffed animal; doll; (fig.) sb's plaything
- soot; lampblack
- to imagine; to make up; fictitious; theoretical; hypothetical; (computing) to emulate; (computing) virtual
- friends and relatives
- living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life; vivid and realistic
- ancestors; forebears; (biology) ancestral species; ancient species from which present-day species evolved
- to inquire into; to ask after
- to remain in existence; to retain
- meticulous; careful; deliberate; delicate; fine (texture)
- lit. drinking buddy (idiom); fig. fair-weather friend
- to impersonate; to pose as (someone else); to counterfeit; to palm off (a fake as a genuine)
- money and valuables
- step by step; at every step
- to dig out; to excavate; to scoop out; to start digging
- drainage
- to employ; to hire; to rent
- 镐 gǎo: 镐 gao3: a pick镐 hào: 镐 hao4: bright; place name; stove
- detector; probe
- to check; to investigate; to probe (into)
- to reconnoiter; to explore; to survey
- work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labor
- 切 qiē: 切 qie1: to cut; to slice; to carve; (math.) tangential切 qiè: 切 qie4: definitely; absolutely (not); (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut!; to grind; (bound form) close to; (bound form) eager; to correspond to; (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切[fan3 qie4] system should be applied to the previous two characters)
- otherwise; if not; or (else)
- in total there are ...; to own jointly
- radius
- sky clears after rain; new hopes after a disastrous period (idiom); every cloud has a silver lining (idiom); see also 雨過天青|雨过天青[yu3 guo4 tian1 qing1]
- to seem; to be like