Vocabulary: 变形记
- due to; to stem from; to go beyond (also fig. beyond reason, expectations etc); to go against (expectations)
- to anticipate; to expect; expectations
- cautious; prudent
- frugal; economical
- now; at present; currently
- certainty; without a doubt
- still (as before); had better; unexpectedly; or
- to arrange; to plan; to set up; arrangements; plans
- to disappear; to fade away
- 还 hái: 还 hai2: still; still in progress; still more; yet; even more; in addition; fairly; passably (good); as early as; even; also; else还 huán: 还 huan2: to pay back; to return还 Huán: 还 Huan2: surname Huan
- band; belt; girdle; ribbon; tire; area; zone; region; CL:條|条[tiao2]; to wear; to carry; to take along; to bear (i.e. to have); to lead; to bring; to look after; to raise
- to move (sb); to touch (sb emotionally); moving
- to recall; to think of; to call to mind
- way of thinking; opinion; notion; to think of a way (to do sth)
- roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea
- 比 bǐ: 比 bi3: to compare; (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun}; ratio; to gesture; (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)比 Bǐ: 比 Bi3: Belgium; Belgian; abbr. for 比利時|比利时[Bi3 li4 shi2]
- firm; steady; staunch; resolute
- to make out; to see
- surface; face; outside; appearance
- shape; form; pattern; morphology
- substance; essence
- popular feeling; the will of the people
- sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old); classifier for written items: chapter, article
- novel; fiction; CL:本[ben3],部[bu4]
- family member
- to touch (physically, one's feelings etc); to touch on (a topic)
- question; problem; issue; topic; CL:個|个[ge4]
- an individual; self-employed individual; small business operator (abbr. for 個體戶|个体户[ge4 ti3 hu4])
- to lose
- society
- Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei
- efficacy
- other; (sth or sb) else; the rest
- member
- 将 jiàng: 将 jiang4: (bound form) a general; (literary) to command; to lead; (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)将 qiāng: 将 qiang1: to desire; to invite; to request将 jiāng: 将 jiang1: will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])
- how; what way; what
- model; typical case; archetype; typical; representative
- to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs
- to mention; to raise (a subject); to refer to
- bad luck; misfortune; adversity
- to face; to overlook; to arrive; to be (just) about to; just before
- body; life; oneself; personally; one's morality and conduct; the main part of a structure or body; pregnant; classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset; Kangxi radical 158
- 时 shí: 时 shi2: o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period时 Shí: 时 Shi2: surname Shi
- to resign oneself to adversity (idiom); to grin and bear it; to submit meekly to insults, maltreatment, humiliation etc
- the slightest amount or degree; a bit