Vocabulary: 在离去与道别之间
from 百年袁家：袁世凯及杨氏夫人后裔百年家族史
- 建立x3 | Chapter Rank #176to establish; to set up; to found
- 新x5 | Chapter Rank #96abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xin1 jiang1]; abbr. for Singapore 新加坡[Xin1 jia1 po1]; surname Xinnew; newly; meso- (chemistry)
- 长x1 | Chapter Rank #644long; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte; (bound form) to be good at; (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4])chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop; to increase; to enhance
- 英俊x1 | Chapter Rank #645handsome
- 漂亮x1 | Chapter Rank #646pretty; beautiful
- 生x1 | Chapter Rank #647to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire); to live; to be alive; life; raw; uncooked; unprocessed; unfamiliar; strange; (bound form) student; person engaged in a field; (bound form) male role in traditional opera; (bound form) life; lifetime; (bound form) means of livelihood; (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]); (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- 儿子x4 | Chapter Rank #130son
- 从小x1 | Chapter Rank #648from childhood; from a young age
- 就x7 | Chapter Rank #70(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after; (same as 就是[jiu4 shi4]) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly; only; as little as; as much as; as many as; to approach; to move towards; to undertake; to engage in; (often followed by 著|着[zhe5]) taking advantage of; (of food) to go with; with regard to; concerning; (bound form) to reach; to attain (as in 一蹴而就[yi1 cu4 er2 jiu4]); (pattern: 就[jiu4] ... 也[ye3] ...) even if ... still ...; (pattern: 不[bu4] ... 就[jiu4] ...) if not ... then must be ...
- 人见人爱x1 | Chapter Rank #649loved by all; to have universal appeal
- 尤其x1 | Chapter Rank #650especially; particularly
- 外婆x1 | Chapter Rank #651(coll.) mother's mother; maternal grandmother
- 陈x3 | Chapter Rank #177(bound form) to lay out; to exhibit; to display; (bound form) to narrate; to state; to explain; to tell; old; stalesurname Chen; Chen (c. 1045 – 479 BC), a Zhou dynasty state; Chen (557–589), one of the Southern Dynasties 南朝[Nan2 Chao2]
- 徵x2 | Chapter Rank #286to invite; to recruit; to levy (taxes); to draft (troops); phenomenon; symptom; characteristic sign (used as proof); evidence4th note in the ancient Chinese pentatonic scale 五音[wu3 yin1], corresponding to sol
- 家中x1 | Chapter Rank #652
- 二姨x1 | Chapter Rank #653
- 苮x1 | Chapter Rank #654
- 姨x1 | Chapter Rank #655mother's sister; aunt
- 宠爱x1 | Chapter Rank #656to dote on sb
- 不过x1 | Chapter Rank #657only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- 心情x1 | Chapter Rank #658mood; frame of mind
- 转瞬即逝x1 | Chapter Rank #659(idiom) fleeting; transitory
- 半年x1 | Chapter Rank #660half a year
- 急转x1 | Chapter Rank #661to whirl; to turn around quickly
- 心知肚明x1 | Chapter Rank #662to be well aware
- 打x2 | Chapter Rank #287a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")(loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]
- 两张牌x1 | Chapter Rank #663
- 桌子x2 | Chapter Rank #288table; desk; CL:張|张[zhang1],套[tao4]
- 牌x1 | Chapter Rank #664signboard; plaque; plate; tablet (CL:塊|块[kuai4]); brand; trademark; mahjong tile; domino; playing card (CL:張|张[zhang1]); (bound form) fixed pattern for lyrics or set melody in classical poetry or music (used in 詞牌|词牌[ci2 pai2] and 曲牌[qu3 pai2])
- 踢脚x1 | Chapter Rank #665
- 这x15 | Chapter Rank #29(coll.) this(pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)
- 可x1 | Chapter Rank #666used in 可汗[ke4 han2](prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very; but; however
- 忙x1 | Chapter Rank #667busy; hurriedly; to hurry; to rush
- 坏x1 | Chapter Rank #668bad; spoiled; broken; to break down; (suffix) to the utmost
- 既x4 | Chapter Rank #131already; since; both... (and...)
- 阻止x1 | Chapter Rank #669to prevent; to block
- 关系x3 | Chapter Rank #178relation; relationship; to concern; to affect; to have to do with; guanxi; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 进一步x1 | Chapter Rank #670to go a step further; (develop, understand, improve etc) more; further
- 恶化x1 | Chapter Rank #671to worsen
- 调解x1 | Chapter Rank #672to mediate; to bring parties to an agreement
- 美的x1 | Chapter Rank #673Midea (brand)
- 苏x1 | Chapter Rank #674used in 嚕囌|噜苏[lu1 su1]to revivesurname Su; abbr. for Soviet Union 蘇維埃|苏维埃[Su1 wei2 ai1] or 蘇聯|苏联[Su1 lian2]; abbr. for Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏[Jiang1 su1]; abbr. for Suzhou 蘇州|苏州[Su1 zhou1]Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil); place name; to revive; used as phonetic in transliteration
- 去x11 | Chapter Rank #41to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- 东北x1 | Chapter Rank #675Northeast China; Manchurianortheast
- 新疆x1 | Chapter Rank #676see 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区[Xin1 jiang1 Wei2 wu2 er3 Zi4 zhi4 qu1]
- 迪化x1 | Chapter Rank #677Dihua or Tihwa (old name of Ürümqi 烏魯木齊|乌鲁木齐[Wu1 lu3 mu4 qi2])
- 或者x2 | Chapter Rank #289or; possibly; maybe; perhaps
- 往返x1 | Chapter Rank #678to go back and forth; to go to and fro; to do a round trip
- 于x4 | Chapter Rank #132to go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particlesurname Yu(of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by
- 南京x1 | Chapter Rank #679see 南京市[Nan2 jing1 Shi4]; Nanjing, capital of the Ming dynasty (1368–1421) and of the Republic of China (1927–1937 and 1946–1949)