Vocabulary: 鄙视
- (of water, prices etc) to rise and fall
- to gaze into the distance
- 坎 kǎn: 坎 kan3: pit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing water; ☵坎 kǎn: 坎 kan3: pit; hole
- cape (geography); headland
- 转动 zhuǎn dòng: 转动 zhuan3 dong4: to turn sth around; to swivel转动 zhuàn dòng: 转动 zhuan4 dong4: to rotate (about an axis); to revolve; to turn; to move in a circle; to gyrate
- lighthouse; CL:座[zuo4]
- glimmer
- thing; object
- life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:條|条[tiao2])
- (literary) vast; boundless
- night scene; the dim light of night
- (idiom) bored to death; bored stiff; overcome with boredom
- to be caused by
- to remember; to recall; memory
- common; general; to share; together; total; altogether; abbr. for 共產黨|共产党[Gong4 chan3 dang3], Communist party
- (bound form) pillow; to rest one's head on (Taiwan pr. [zhen4])
- to sleep; to hibernate
- to faint
- to lament; to complain tearfully; to wail accusingly
- 背 bēi: 背 bei1: to carry on one's back; (fig.) to bear; to shoulder (a burden, blame etc)背 bèi: 背 bei4: the back of a body or object; to turn one's back; to hide something from; to learn by heart; to recite from memory; (slang) unlucky; hard of hearing
- lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently; to know sth inside out; to know sth by heart
- verse; CL:行[hang2]
- stress (on a syllable)
- to read silently; to mouth (the words of a prayer etc); to say to oneself; to contemplate inwardly
- in (some place); to be in (adversity, a difficult situation, danger, turmoil etc); to find oneself in; placed in; surrounded by
- adversity; predicament
- wisdom; intelligence
- god; spirit; demon; occult or supernatural entities in general
- to foreordain; to be bound to; to be destined to; to be doomed to; inevitably
- to spend all one's time together (idiom)
- lit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom); fig. (of a boy and a girl) to play together often during childhood
- (idiom) over the years; year after year
- grizzled; graying
- Greek literature
- translated text
- original text
- dainty; elegance; elegant
- writings; writing style
- famous; noted; well-known; celebrated