Vocabulary: 变形记
- hour; CL:個|个[ge4]
- busy with
- official business
- innate sense of right and wrong; conscience; bosom friend
- to become
- simply; really
- 派 pài: 派 pai4: (literary) tributary; branch of a river; clique; school; group; faction; (bound form) style; manner; to send (a person or resource); to dispatch; to allocate (a resource or task); to appoint (sb); classifier for factions, groups etc; (preceded by 一[yi1]) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc; (loanword) pi (Greek letter Π, π); the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159...; (loanword) pie派 pā: 派 pa1: used in 派司[pa1 si5]
- apprentice; to serve an apprenticeship
- to make discreet inquiries; to scout out
- necessary; essential; indispensable; required
- personally; in person; oneself
- to drop in; to visit; to lock a door; (of a shop) to close; to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
- innocent; innocence; not guilty (law)
- to show; to illustrate; to display; to demonstrate
- investigation; inquiry; to investigate; to survey; survey; (opinion) poll; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
- to come from
- thought; idea; intention
- to provoke; to irritate; to upset; to stimulate; to excite; irritant
- loud and clear; resounding
- unlikely to go so far as to; not as bad as
- to quarrel; to make a noise; noisy; to disturb by making a noise
- to slow down; to retard
- 落 là: 落 la4: to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind落 lào: 落 lao4: colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds落 lùo: 落 luo4: to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out; to lower; to decline or sink; to lag or fall behind; to fall onto; to rest with; to get or receive; to write down; whereabouts; settlement
- flexibility; elasticity
- to attract attention; eye-catching; conspicuous
- not enough; insufficient; inadequate
- inadvertent; accidental; to have no intention of (doing sth)
- annoyed; riled; vexed
- friction; rubbing; chafing; fig. disharmony; conflict; also written 磨擦
- left; the left side; to the left of
- next door; neighbor
- 说道 shūo dao: 说道 shuo1 dao5: to discuss; reason (behind sth)说道 shūo dào: 说道 shuo1 dao4: to state; to say (the quoted words)
- similar; analogous
- on the body; at hand; among
- now; this moment
- paint; lacquer; CL:道[dao4]; to paint (furniture, walls etc)
- (onom.) quack; honk; (northern dialect) very; also pr. [ga1 ga5], [ga2 ga5] etc