Vocabulary: 变形记
- to scrape a meager living; to get by with difficulty
- 好处 hǎo chu: 好处 hao3 chu5: benefit; advantage; merit; gain; profit; also pr. [hao3chu4]好处 hǎo chǔ: 好处 hao3 chu3: easy to get along with
- to finish work; to get off work; next service (train, bus etc)
- early; morning; Good morning!; long ago; prematurely
- to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good
- (bound form) to compare; (literary) to dispute; compared to; (before an adjective) relatively; comparatively; rather; also pr. [jiao3]
- (of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway; (of people) to carry out; to conduct (an investigation or discussion etc); (of an army etc) to be on the march; to advance
- front; forward; ahead; first; top (followed by a number); future; ago; before; BC (e.g. 前293年); former; formerly
- final; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
- to be called; to be known as; to call it "..."
- to lead to
- happy; joyful
- springboard; jumping-off point; gangplank
- girlfriend
- letter; mail; CL:封[feng1]; to trust; to believe; to profess faith in; truthful; confidence; trust; at will; at random
- to write (used before or after a quoted passage)
- funny; ridiculous
- (not only ...) but also; moreover; in addition; furthermore
- light; gentle; relaxed; effortless; uncomplicated; to relax; to take things less seriously
- 得 dé: 得 de2: to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finished得 de: 得 de5: structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc得 děi: 得 dei3: to have to; must; ought to; to need to得 dè: 得 de4: used in 得瑟[de4 se5]
- pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on
- I; me; my
- oneself; (attributive) one's own
- to get; to obtain; to receive
- 钱 qián: 钱 qian2: coin; money; CL:筆|笔[bi3]; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩|两[liang3]钱 Qián: 钱 Qian2: surname Qian
- life (one's time on earth)
- very; really; unusual; extraordinary
- 大 dài: 大 dai4: see 大夫[dai4 fu5]大 dà: 大 da4: big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- 写 xiě: 写 xie3: to write写 xiè: 写 xie4: used in 寫意|写意[xie4 yi4]
- 达 Dá: 达 Da2: surname Da达 dá: 达 da2: to attain; to reach; to amount to; to communicate; eminent
- 页 xié: 页 xie2: head页 yè: 页 ye4: page; leaf
- to describe; description
- childhood
- actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker); (LGBT) bottom
- wound; injury; trauma
- to complain; to grumble; to harbor a complaint; to feel dissatisfied
- always; at all times; never (if used in negative sentence)
- to approve; approval; acknowledgment; OK
- regarding; as far as (sth) is concerned; with regard to
- to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)
- everything; every; all
- apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- to sneer at; to ridicule; to taunt