Vocabulary: 变形记
- to resist; to make a stand and fight (against)
- to face; to confront
- they; them
- to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative
- to surrender; to succumb; to yield; (as a transitive verb) to defeat; to prevail over
- obedient; to comply; to submit; to defer
- hero; CL:個|个[ge4]
- nonentity; a nobody
- to touch; to contact; access; in touch with
- forlorn; miserable
- common people
- have no choice or option but to; cannot but; have to; can't help it; can't avoid
- to renounce; to abandon; to give up
- human nature; humanity; human; the totality of human attributes
- (idiom) immutable; impervious to change; set in stone
- calm; cool-headed; dispassionate; (of a place) deserted; quiet
- detailed and reliable; full and accurate
- to seem; as if; seemingly; alike; similar
- judicial; (administration of) justice
- document; file; CL:份[fen4]
- details; particulars
- not a word or movement (idiom); remaining calm and collected; not batting an eyelid
- little by little; bit by bit; gradually
- to reveal; to display; to show; to exhibit
- in (sb's) eyes
- the truth about sth; the actual facts
- to make up; fabrication; fictional; imaginary
- environment; circumstances; surroundings; CL:個|个[ge4]; ambient
- to serve to highlight; to serve as a backdrop or contrasting element
- under; beneath; less than
- lit. shocks the eye, astonishes the heart (idiom); shocking; horrible to see; a ghastly sight
- 正 zhēng: 正 zheng1: first month of the lunar year正 zhèng: 正 zheng4: straight; upright; proper; main; principal; to correct; to rectify; exactly; just (at that time); right (in that place); (math.) positive
- later generation
- the West; the Occident; Western countries
- the earliest ancestor; originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc)
- century
- tool; device; utensil; equipment; instrument; talent; ability; to possess; to have; to provide; to furnish; to state; classifier for devices, coffins, dead bodies
- influence; impact
- writer; man of letters; CL:個|个[ge4]
- Paul
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French existential philosopher and novelist
- MURAKAMI Haruki (1949-), Japanese novelist and translator
- Milano; Milan (Italy)
- Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian philosopher, author, and journalist