Vocabulary: 序言
from 贝佐斯传
- 引发x4 | Chapter Rank #172to lead to; to trigger; to initiate; to cause; to evoke (emotions)
- 现代x3 | Chapter Rank #249Hyundai, South Korean companymodern times; modern age; modern era
- 历史x4 | Chapter Rank #173history; CL:門|门[men2],段[duan4]
- 上x30 | Chapter Rank #16used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1](bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb; to get onto; to go up; to attend (class or university); (directional complement) up; (noun suffix) on; above
- 最为x1 | Chapter Rank #717the most
- 严重x1 | Chapter Rank #718grave; serious; severe; critical
- 一场x6 | Chapter Rank #103
- 全球x9 | Chapter Rank #64the whole world; worldwide; global
- 疫情x3 | Chapter Rank #250epidemic situation
- 这场x2 | Chapter Rank #390
- 只有x2 | Chapter Rank #391only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才[cai2]) it is only if ... (that one can ...) (as in 只有通過治療才能痊愈|只有通过治疗才能痊愈[zhi3 you3 tong1 guo4 zhi4 liao2 cai2 neng2 quan2 yu4] "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only (someone) who ... (as in 只有男性才有此需要[zhi3 you3 nan2 xing4 cai2 you3 ci3 xu1 yao4] "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to express lack of alternatives) can only; have no choice but to (as in 只有屈服[zhi3 you3 qu1 fu2] "the only thing you can do is give in")
- 收到x1 | Chapter Rank #719to receive
- 邀请x2 | Chapter Rank #392to invite; invitation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 人才x2 | Chapter Rank #393talent; talented person; looks; attractive looks
- 能x1 | Chapter Rank #720surname Nengcan; to be able to; might possibly; ability; (physics) energy
- 参加x3 | Chapter Rank #251to participate; to take part; to join
- 当晚x2 | Chapter Rank #394on that eveningthe same evening
- 庭院x1 | Chapter Rank #721courtyard
- 人群x2 | Chapter Rank #395crowd
- 熙攘x1 | Chapter Rank #722restless
- 米歇尔x1 | Chapter Rank #723Michel or Mitchell (name); George Mitchell (1933-), US Democratic party politician and diplomat, influential in brokering Northern Ireland peace deal in 1990s, US Middle East special envoy from 2009
- 奥巴马x1 | Chapter Rank #724Barack Obama (1961–), US Democrat politician, president 2009–2017
- 希拉里x1 | Chapter Rank #725Hillary (name); Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
- 克林顿x1 | Chapter Rank #726Clinton (name); Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, President 1993-2001; Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
- 南希x1 | Chapter Rank #727Nancy
- 佩x1 | Chapter Rank #728to respect; to wear (belt etc)girdle ornaments
- 洛x1 | Chapter Rank #729used in transliterationsurname Luo; old name of several rivers (in Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Anhui)
- 西x3 | Chapter Rank #252the West; abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2]; Spanishwest
- 等x10 | Chapter Rank #54to wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
- 人身x1 | Chapter Rank #730person; personal; human body
- 着x15 | Chapter Rank #36aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing stateto wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to applya move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to addto touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in
- 盛装x1 | Chapter Rank #731splendid clothes; rich attire; one's Sunday best(of a receptacle etc) to contain
- 出现x3 | Chapter Rank #253to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up
- 在x107 | Chapter Rank #4to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
- 嘉宾x1 | Chapter Rank #732esteemed guest; honored guest; guest (on a show)
- 当中x1 | Chapter Rank #733among; in the middle; in the center
- 他们x16 | Chapter Rank #35they; them
- 这里x2 | Chapter Rank #396here
- 庆祝x1 | Chapter Rank #734to celebrate
- 六位x1 | Chapter Rank #735
- 人物x2 | Chapter Rank #397person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting
- 肖像x3 | Chapter Rank #254portrait (painting, photo etc); (in a general sense) representation of a person; likeness
- 晋x1 | Chapter Rank #736surname Jin; the Jin Dynasties (265–420); Western Jin 西晉|西晋[Xi1 Jin4] (265–316), Eastern Jin 東晉|东晋[Dong1 Jin4] (317–420) and Later Jin Dynasty (936–946); short name for Shanxi 山西[Shan1 xi1]to move forward; to promote; to advance
- 画廊x1 | Chapter Rank #737art gallery; decorated corridor
- 永久x1 | Chapter Rank #738everlasting; perpetual; lasting; forever; permanent
- 收藏x1 | Chapter Rank #739to collect (works of art, dolls, antiques etc); to put away for safekeeping; (Internet) to bookmark; a collection
- 之x9 | Chapter Rank #65(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]); him; her; it
- 列x2 | Chapter Rank #398to arrange; to line up; file; series; (in data tables) column; (Tw) row
- 主人x1 | Chapter Rank #740master; host; owner; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 包括x7 | Chapter Rank #87to comprise; to include; to involve; to incorporate; to consist of