Vocabulary: 百年孤独
- barrier; obstruction; hindrance; impediment; obstacle
- to pass through; to traverse; to cross
- code of conduct; conventions; common practice; routine (medical procedure etc)
- only
- to burn; to scorch; burned; burning; scorched; charred
- "dragon bones" (fossilized animal bones or teeth, used in TCM); breastbone (of a bird); keel (of a ship)
- to tower; standing tall and upright (of large building)
- 段 Duàn: 段 Duan4: surname Duan段 duàn: 段 duan4: paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc
- history; CL:門|门[men2],段[duan4]
- 不是 bù shì: 不是 bu4 shi4: no; is not; not不是 bù shi: 不是 bu4 shi5: fault; blame
- to penetrate deeply; thorough
- up until now; so far
- to feel perplexed
- to perplex; to disturb; to cause complications
- to be at a distance of ... from; to be apart from; (bound form) distance; spur (on the leg of certain birds: gamecock, pheasant etc)
- twelve; 12
- kilometer
- coast; seaside; seashore; beach
- ash-colored
- foam; (soap) bubble; (economic) bubble
- (of water, waves, emotions etc) to churn; to surge; to seethe; to somersault; to tumble; to flip; to rummage; to turn things over repeatedly
- worth the money; to merit; to deserve; to be worth (doing sth)
- absurd; strange; (interj.) curse it!; to hell with it!
- to yell; to shout; to call out for (a person)
- environs; surroundings; periphery
- 水 Shǔi: 水 Shui3: surname Shui; Shui ethnic group水 shǔi: 水 shui3: water; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4 shui3] and 水性[shui3 xing4]); (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy; (bound form) additional cost; extra income; classifier for washings of a garment
- to be situated at; to find oneself at
- peninsula
- deep-rooted (problem etc)
- notion; thought; concept; sense; views; ideology; general impressions
- has its origins in
- to return; to come back
- arbitrary; subjective; dogmatic
- to chart; to sketch; to draft; to plot
- to have one's heart filled with; (to collide) full on; (of farm animals) heavy with young
- anger
- deliberately; on purpose
- to exaggerate
- to be connected; traffic; transportation; communications; liaison
- difficult; hard; challenging
- with this; thereby; thus; because of this
- penalty; punishment; to punish
- beyond belief; preposterous; absurd; intemperate; dissipated
- to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative
- where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?
- to foreordain; to be bound to; to be destined to; to be doomed to; inevitably