Vocabulary: 贝佐斯传
- city center; downtown
- hill
- Pacific Ocean
- Nice (city in France)
- rich; wide; broad
- 利 lì: 利 li4: sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit利 Lì: 利 Li4: surname Li
- earthquake
- house; building; CL:所[suo3],套[tao4]
- tiles and bricks
- mortar (building)
- to fall down
- to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)
- (idiom) bad omen
- to hide; to dodge; to avoid
- 门 mén: 门 men2: gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4]); valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure; way to do sth; knack; method; approach; family; household; lineage; (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic); (bound form) class; category; division; phylum; classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc; (suffix) -gate (scandal)门 Mén: 门 Men2: surname Men
- 台 Tái: 台 Tai2: Taiwan (abbr.); surname Tai台 tái: 台 tai2: (classical) you (in letters)台 tāi: 台 tai1: used in place names台 tái: 台 tai2: desk; table; counter台 tái: 台 tai2: platform; stage; terrace; stand; support; station; broadcasting station; classifier for vehicles or machines台 Tái: 台 Tai2: Taiwan (abbr.)台 tái: 台 tai2: typhoon
- table; desk; classifier for tables of guests at a banquet etc
- to be saved from; to be spared (something)
- to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle
- to fall; to tumble; to trip; (of prices etc) to drop; Taiwan pr. [die2]
- to get rich quick
- office; business premises
- whiteboard; tabula rasa; blank slate
- slipshod; careless; slovenly; (of handwriting) scrawly; illegible
- 写 xiè: 写 xie4: used in 寫意|写意[xie4 yi4]写 xiě: 写 xie3: to write
- sentence; clause; phrase; classifier for phrases or lines of verse
- to double; to redouble
- to get the desired outcome; to win favor by fawning on sb; to curry favor with; a fruitful outcome to reward one's labor
- customer; client; CL:位[wei4]
- for example; for instance; such as
- Harry
- 波特 Bō tè: 波特 Bo1 te4: Potter or Porter (surname)波特 bō tè: 波特 bo1 te4: (loanword) baud (computing); porter (beer)
- special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 特克斯[te4 ke4 si1], tex
- 当天 dāng tiān: 当天 dang1 tian1: on that day当天 dàng tiān: 当天 dang4 tian1: the same day
- to dispatch; to send out goods
- to be afraid; to be scared
- incomparable; matchless
- calm; cool-headed; dispassionate; (of a place) deserted; quiet
- timely; at the right time; promptly; without delay
- financing
- America Online (AOL)
- juncture; moment
- to inject funds; to put money into (the market)