Vocabulary: 变形记
- decrepit; ruined; disappointed
- to approach; to draw near to
- to be witness to; witness; evidence
- scene; spectacle; occasion; situation
- a few years; several years; how many years?
- 当年 dàng nián: 当年 dang4 nian2: that very same year当年 dāng nián: 当年 dang1 nian2: in those days; back then; in those years; to be in the prime of life
- to perform an in-depth investigation
- to spoil (a child)
- fun; pleasure; laughing matter
- to abandon; to discard; to renounce; to dump (sb)
- half of sth
- in vain
- 约 yāo: 约 yao1: to weigh in a balance or on a scale约 yuē: 约 yue1: to make an appointment; to invite; approximately; pact; treaty; to economize; to restrict; to reduce (a fraction); concise
- to recall; to recollect; to think back
- to be infatuated with; to be drunk with; to be enchanted with; to revel in
- hasn't (or haven't); hasn't ever
- to be on guard; wariness; to guard against; preventive
- what are you doing?; what's he up to?
- lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); fig. untold numbers; innumerable; countless
- to surround; to encircle; to hem in
- market; bazaar; fair
- shack; shed; CL:間|间[jian1]
- to change profession
- age; CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4]
- zealotry; fanatical; feverish
- to commit one's energy to; to devote oneself to; to sacrifice one's life for; (coll.) (of a woman) to give one's virginity to
- undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- comrade; (slang) homosexual; CL:位[wei4]
- to be employed; to be hired; hired; paid
- circus
- self-respect; self-esteem; ego
- equipment; to equip; to outfit
- to correspond; answering (one another); to agree (among the part); corresponding; relevant; appropriate; (modify) accordingly
- premise; precondition; prerequisite
- special; particular; unusual; extraordinary
- to employ; to hire
- to be related; to entail; to involve; joint (liability etc)
- former days; in the past
- splendid; glorious