Vocabulary: 变形记
- to weaken; to diminish
- investigator; researcher
- a boom (i.e. transverse beam for hanging objects)
- symbol; emblem; to symbolize; to signify; to represent
- reality; actuality; real; actual; realistic; pragmatic; materialistic; self-interested
- using this as a pretext; thereby
- to keep; to maintain; to hold; to preserve
- both of them; the two of them
- balance; equilibrium
- vexed; distressed
- time; length of time; moment; period
- tuberculosis
- to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc); (medicine) to metastasize
- neck; throat
- to eat; to take food
- difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation
- creative inspiration
- indeed; really; reliable; real; true
- shadow; reflection; (fig.) hint; indication; influence; CL:個|个[ge4]
- life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:條|条[tiao2])
- to have no other choice
- to go hungry; to endure starvation; famished
- else; other
- at the same time; simultaneously
- (once) again; also; both... and...; and yet; (used for emphasis) anyway
- spectators; audience; visitors (to an exhibition etc)
- aspiration; wish (for); desire
- not just; not limited to; (as a correlative conjunction) not only (..., but also ...)
- the people one depends upon for one's livelihood; one's bread and butter
- talent; CL:份[fen4]
- talent; ability; capacity
- theme; subject
- this kind of
- that level or lower; that amount or less; the following
- to be abbreviated to; abbreviation; short form
- to deepen; to intensify
- fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 不是 bù shì: 不是 bu4 shi4: no; is not; not不是 bù shi: 不是 bu4 shi5: fault; blame
- to worry about
- as; as if; such as
- fruit; result; resolute; indeed; if really
- same; equal; similar; similarly; also; too
- futile
- she
- anyway; in any case; to come over from the enemy's side
- deaf person