Vocabulary: 前言
from 陈寅恪的最后二十年
- 沧海桑田x1 | Chapter Rank #160lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom); fig. the transformations of the world
- 新x1 | Chapter Rank #161abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xin1 jiang1]; abbr. for Singapore 新加坡[Xin1 jia1 po1]; surname Xinnew; newly; meso- (chemistry)
- 又x1 | Chapter Rank #162(once) again; also; both... and...; and yet; (used for emphasis) anyway
- 将x1 | Chapter Rank #163(bound form) a general; (literary) to command; to lead; (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)to desire; to invite; to requestwill; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])
- 降临x1 | Chapter Rank #164to descend; to arrive; to come
- 然x1 | Chapter Rank #165correct; right; so; thus; like this; -ly
- 焉知x1 | Chapter Rank #166(literary) how is one to know?
- 今日x1 | Chapter Rank #167today
- 吾侪x1 | Chapter Rank #168
- 宁x1 | Chapter Rank #169to store; to stand; space between the door and the entrance screenabbr. for Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区[Ning2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 qu1]; abbr. for Nanjing 南京[Nan2 jing1]; surname Ningpeaceful; to pacify; to visit (one's parents etc)would rather; to prefer; how (emphatic); Taiwan pr. [ning2]
- 不x2 | Chapter Rank #47no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 感受x2 | Chapter Rank #48to sense; perception; to feel (through the senses); to experience; a feeling; an impression; an experience
- 前贤x1 | Chapter Rank #170sages of the past; worthy predecessors
- 相似x1 | Chapter Rank #171similar; alike
- 苦x1 | Chapter Rank #172bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly
- 困x1 | Chapter Rank #173to trap; to surround; hard-pressed; stranded; destitutesleepy; tired
- 数x2 | Chapter Rank #49(literary) frequently; repeatedlyto count; to count as; to regard as; to enumerate; to listnumber; figure; several; a few
- 年间x1 | Chapter Rank #174in the years of; during those years; period (of dynasty or decade)
- 寂静x1 | Chapter Rank #175quiet
- 书房x1 | Chapter Rank #176study (room); studio; CL:間|间[jian1]
- 里x1 | Chapter Rank #177lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裏|里[li3]Li (surname)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] levels
- 和x3 | Chapter Rank #22to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence; to join in the singing; to chime in with otherssurname He(joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]); (math.) sum; to make peace; (sports) to draw; to tie; (bound form) harmonious; (bound form) Japan; Japaneseto complete a set in mahjong or playing cardsto combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water; Taiwan pr. [huo4]to mix (ingredients) together; to blend; classifier for rinses of clothes; classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
- 档案馆x2 | Chapter Rank #50archive library
- 窗外x1 | Chapter Rank #178
- 春秋x1 | Chapter Rank #179Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); Spring and Autumn Annals, chronicle of Lu State (722-481 BC)spring and autumn; four seasons; year; a person's age; annals (used in book titles)
- 易x1 | Chapter Rank #180surname Yi; I Ching; Book of Changes (abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1])easy; amiable; to change; to exchange; prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"
- 当x2 | Chapter Rank #51(onom.) dong; ding dong (bell)to be; to act as; manage; withstand; when; during; ought; should; match equally; equal; same; obstruct; just at (a time or place); on the spot; right; just atat or in the very same...; suitable; adequate; fitting; proper; to replace; to regard as; to think; to pawn; (coll.) to fail (a student)
- 千个x1 | Chapter Rank #181
- 枯燥x1 | Chapter Rank #182dry and dull; uninteresting; tedious
- 日子x1 | Chapter Rank #183day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life
- 笔下x1 | Chapter Rank #184the wording and purport of what one writes
- 轻轻地x1 | Chapter Rank #185
- 滑x1 | Chapter Rank #186to slip; to slide; slippery; smooth; sly; slippery; not to be trustedsurname Hua
- 过去x1 | Chapter Rank #187(verb suffix)(in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by
- 全书x1 | Chapter Rank #188entire book; unabridged book
- 最后x2 | Chapter Rank #52final; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
- 感叹号x1 | Chapter Rank #189exclamation point; exclamation mark (!)
- 重重地x1 | Chapter Rank #190
- 划x1 | Chapter Rank #191to row; to paddle; profitable; worth (the effort); it pays (to do sth)to delimit; to transfer; to assign; to plan; to draw (a line); stroke of a Chinese characterto cut; to slash; to scratch (cut into the surface of sth); to strike (a match)
- 时x1 | Chapter Rank #192surname Shio'clock; time; when; hour; season; period
- 止不住x1 | Chapter Rank #193
- 眼角x1 | Chapter Rank #194outer or inner corner of the eye; canthus
- 流下x1 | Chapter Rank #195
- 一行x1 | Chapter Rank #196party; delegation
- 清泪x1 | Chapter Rank #197
- 不知x1 | Chapter Rank #198not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
- 这样x1 | Chapter Rank #199this way; like this; so; (before a noun) this kind of; such
- 描述x1 | Chapter Rank #200to describe; description
- 是否x2 | Chapter Rank #53whether (or not); if; is or isn't
- 无愧于x1 | Chapter Rank #201