Vocabulary: 草枕
- slender; lanky; tall and thin
- beautiful image of a woman
- unlined garment
- foolish; stupid; expressionless; blank
- 立 Lì: 立 Li4: surname Li立 lì: 立 li4: to stand; to set up; to establish; to lay down; to draw up; at once; immediately
- blankly; vacantly; at a loss
- not knowing what to do (idiom); at one's wits' end; embarrassed and at a complete loss
- much obliged; thank you; to ask advice; (ironically or humorously) to experience; to taste
- unable to change sth; unable to deal with
- again; once more; re-
- to get into; to dig into (studies, job etc); to squeeze into
- to fill or stuff; (of a form etc) to fill in
- 芯 xīn: 芯 xin1: (bound form) the pith of the rush plant (used as a lampwick)芯 xìn: 芯 xin4: used in 芯子[xin4 zi5]; Taiwan pr. [xin1]
- pillow
- the location below sth; afterwards
- to feel with the hand; to touch; to stroke; to grope; to steal; to abstract
- pocket watch
- unlikely to go so far as to; not as bad as
- monster; devil
- 跑 páo: 跑 pao2: (of an animal) to paw (the ground)跑 pǎo: 跑 pao3: to run; to run away; to escape; to run around (on errands etc); (of a gas or liquid) to leak or evaporate; (verb complement) away; off
- (of a wife) to return to her parental home; (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
- see 三更半夜[san1 geng1 ban4 ye4]
- a little
- dependable
- to turn over in one's mind (idiom); to think through from different angles; to ponder
- what?; how?; how about?; whatever; also pr. [zen3 me5 zhe5]
- 嘀 dī: 嘀 di1: (onom.) sound of dripping water, a ticking clock etc嘀 dí: 嘀 di2: used in 嘀咕[di2 gu5]
- (onom.) tick tock
- 嗒 dā: 嗒 da1: (onom.) used in words that describe machine gunfire, the ticking of a clock or the clatter of horse hooves etc嗒 tà: 嗒 ta4: used in 嗒然[ta4 ran2] and 嗒喪|嗒丧[ta4 sang4]
- a clamor; noisy
- before; formerly; previous; ago
- never
- (indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened; (indicating that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly; contrarily; against reason; (indicating that sb or a group is singled out) precisely; only; of all people
- to urge
- to reflect on; to ponder over
- to put out; to issue
- to sleep; to lie down
- to give sb a word of advice; advice; counsel; a wise word
- disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy
- terrible; frightful; frightening; terror; terrorist
- (bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
- to require; to need; to want; necessity; need