Vocabulary: 第一章 我母亲的儿子
from 不畏：陆克文自传
- 伊x3 | Chapter Rank #386(old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she"); second person singular pronoun ("you"); (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she"); (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning; (preceding a noun) that; (bound form) Iraq (abbr. for 伊拉克[Yi1 la1 ke4]); (bound form) Iran (abbr. for 伊朗[Yi1 lang3])surname Yi
- 几乎x5 | Chapter Rank #231almost; nearly; practically
- 眼神x1 | Chapter Rank #1030expression or emotion showing in one's eyes; meaningful glance; wink; eyesight (dialect)
- 空洞x1 | Chapter Rank #1031cavity; empty; vacuous
- 面x1 | Chapter Rank #1032face; side; surface; aspect; top; classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etcflour; noodles; (of food) soft (not crunchy); (slang) (of a person) ineffectual; spineless
- 无表情x1 | Chapter Rank #1033expressionless; wooden (expression); blank (face)
- 不是x17 | Chapter Rank #61fault; blameno; is not; not
- 我们x91 | Chapter Rank #7we; us; ourselves; our
- 想象x5 | Chapter Rank #232to imagine; to envision; imagination
- 样子x3 | Chapter Rank #387appearance; manner; pattern; model
- 他们x42 | Chapter Rank #22they; them
- 生活x24 | Chapter Rank #43to live; life; livelihood
- 第二次世界大战x3 | Chapter Rank #388World War II
- 澳大利亚x14 | Chapter Rank #78Australia
- 丛林x5 | Chapter Rank #233jungle; thicket; forest; Buddhist monastery
- 里x54 | Chapter Rank #15lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裏|里[li3]li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m; neighborhood; ancient administrative unit of 25 families; (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levelsLi (surname)
- 无忧无虑x1 | Chapter Rank #1034(idiom) carefree; without worries
- 少年x1 | Chapter Rank #1035early youth; youngster; (literary) youth; young man
- 天天x1 | Chapter Rank #1036every day
- 玩x8 | Chapter Rank #145to play; to have fun; to trifle with; toy; sth used for amusement; curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wan4]); to keep sth for entertainmentTaiwan pr. [wan4]
- 板球x1 | Chapter Rank #1037cricket (ball game)
- 足球x1 | Chapter Rank #1038soccer; football; a soccer ball; a football
- 偶尔x3 | Chapter Rank #389occasionally; once in a while; sometimes
- 农场x23 | Chapter Rank #44farm
- 帮帮忙x1 | Chapter Rank #1039to help; to do a favor; (Shanghainese) Come on!; Give me a break!
- 但是x11 | Chapter Rank #103but; however
- 呈现x1 | Chapter Rank #1040to appear; to emerge; to present (a certain appearance); to demonstrate
- 却是x3 | Chapter Rank #390nevertheless; actually; the fact is ...
- 如何x4 | Chapter Rank #301how; what way; what
- 艰苦x1 | Chapter Rank #1041difficult; hard; arduous
- 工作x6 | Chapter Rank #191to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task; CL:個|个[ge4],份[fen4],項|项[xiang4]
- 以x7 | Chapter Rank #166to use; by means of; according to; in order to; because of; at (a certain date or place)abbr. for Israel 以色列[Yi3 se4 lie4]
- 维持x1 | Chapter Rank #1042to keep; to maintain; to preserve
- 生计x1 | Chapter Rank #1043livelihood
- 竭尽所能x1 | Chapter Rank #1044
- 地x37 | Chapter Rank #29-ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunctearth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]
- 生存x2 | Chapter Rank #577to exist; to survive
- 下来x2 | Chapter Rank #578to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)
- 家x11 | Chapter Rank #104used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 一共x1 | Chapter Rank #1045in total; altogether
- 孩子x27 | Chapter Rank #37child
- 祖父x4 | Chapter Rank #302father's father; paternal grandfather
- 好几个x1 | Chapter Rank #1046
- 兄弟姐妹x3 | Chapter Rank #391brothers and sisters; siblings
- 再x7 | Chapter Rank #167again; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time; (before an adjective) more; then (after sth, and not until then); no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis); (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4 ze2], 再就是[zai4 jiu4 shi4] etc); (literary) to reappear; to reoccur
- 向前x1 | Chapter Rank #1047forward; onward
- 追溯x1 | Chapter Rank #1048lit. to go upstream; to trace sth back to; to date from
- 五代x1 | Chapter Rank #1049Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
- 最早x3 | Chapter Rank #392
- 流放x1 | Chapter Rank #1050to exile; to banish; to deport; to float (logs) downstream