Vocabulary: 第十二章 奥玛：喀土穆的流金岁月
from 本·拉登传——一个恐怖大亨的隐秘人生
- 家x13 | Chapter Rank #78used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 一栋x2 | Chapter Rank #469
- 米黄色x2 | Chapter Rank #470
- 混凝土x1 | Chapter Rank #789concrete (building material)
- 房子x12 | Chapter Rank #86house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room; CL:棟|栋[dong4],幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4],套[tao4],間|间[jian1]
- 外墙x1 | Chapter Rank #790facade; external wall
- 差不多x2 | Chapter Rank #471almost; nearly; more or less; about the same; good enough; not bad
- 有x51 | Chapter Rank #14to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)
- 一扇x2 | Chapter Rank #472
- 大的x1 | Chapter Rank #791
- 米色x2 | Chapter Rank #473
- 金属门x1 | Chapter Rank #792
- 几个x9 | Chapter Rank #116a few; several; how many
- 手下x3 | Chapter Rank #324under one's control or administration; subordinates; (money etc) on hand; sb's financial means; when taking action
- 争相x1 | Chapter Rank #793to fall over each other in their eagerness to...
- 把门x1 | Chapter Rank #794to stand as a goalkeeper; to keep guard on a gate
- 打开x2 | Chapter Rank #474to open; to show (a ticket); to turn on; to switch on
- 让x16 | Chapter Rank #59to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])
- 一家x2 | Chapter Rank #475the whole family; the same family; the family ... (when preceded by a family name); group
- 进去x1 | Chapter Rank #795to go in
- 哥哥x5 | Chapter Rank #207older brother; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- 弟弟x3 | Chapter Rank #325younger brother; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- 们x27 | Chapter Rank #32plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals
- 望x5 | Chapter Rank #208full moon; to hope; to expect; to visit; to gaze (into the distance); to look towards; towards15th day of month (lunar calendar)
- 几眼x2 | Chapter Rank #476
- 想x9 | Chapter Rank #117to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
- 着x31 | Chapter Rank #24to 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 inaspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
- 母亲x18 | Chapter Rank #52mother
- 新x7 | Chapter Rank #147abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xin1 jiang1]; abbr. for Singapore 新加坡[Xin1 jia1 po1]; surname Xinnew; newly; meso- (chemistry)
- 牢笼x2 | Chapter Rank #477cage; trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals); fig. bonds (of wrong ideas); shackles (of past misconceptions); to trap; to shackle
- 她x27 | Chapter Rank #33she
- 身居x1 | Chapter Rank #796
- 深闺x1 | Chapter Rank #797lady's private room or bedroom; boudoir
- 完全x7 | Chapter Rank #148complete; whole; totally; entirely
- 与x7 | Chapter Rank #149(formal) and; together with (linking parallel nouns, verbs, or phrases); (formal) with; from (marking the other participant in an interaction, comparison, or contrast, e.g. 與他握手|与他握手[yu3 ta1 wo4 shou3] "shake hands with him", 與去年不同|与去年不同[yu3 qu4 nian2 bu4 tong2] "different from last year"); (literary) to give; to grant; to bestowto take part in
- 外界x1 | Chapter Rank #798the outside world; external
- 隔绝x1 | Chapter Rank #799to cut off; to isolate; isolated (from the world)
- 只x7 | Chapter Rank #150only; merely; justgrain that has begun to ripenclassifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
- 家人x3 | Chapter Rank #326family member; (old) servant
- 接触x4 | Chapter Rank #255to touch; to contact; access; in touch with
- 足不出户x1 | Chapter Rank #800(idiom) to not leave one's home; to stay indoors
- 婚后x1 | Chapter Rank #801after getting married
- 只有x2 | Chapter Rank #478only 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")
- 去x14 | Chapter Rank #69to 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)
- 拜访x2 | Chapter Rank #479to pay a visit; to call on
- 亲戚x2 | Chapter Rank #480a relative (i.e. family relation); CL:門|门[men2],個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- 被x35 | Chapter Rank #22quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu : 3 you2] to "go on a trip")
- 允许x7 | Chapter Rank #151to permit; to allow
- 或者x1 | Chapter Rank #802or; possibly; maybe; perhaps
- 搬x1 | Chapter Rank #803to move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky); to shift; to copy indiscriminately