Vocabulary: 第十七章 今生所剩无几日
from 陈寅恪的最后二十年
- 后x48 | Chapter Rank #18empress; queen; (archaic) monarch; rulersurname Houback; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; post-
- 要x18 | Chapter Rank #58(bound form) to demand; to coerceto want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) important
- 把x4 | Chapter Rank #362to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb})handle
- 他的x9 | Chapter Rank #138
- 骨灰x2 | Chapter Rank #727bone ash; cremation ashes; cremains
- 撒x1 | Chapter Rank #1268to let go; to cast; to let loose; to discharge; to give expression to; (coll.) to peeto scatter; to sprinkle; to spill
- 珠江x1 | Chapter Rank #1269Pearl River (Guangdong)
- 黄埔港x1 | Chapter Rank #1270
- 外x5 | Chapter Rank #274outside; in addition; foreign; external
- 不要x2 | Chapter Rank #728don't!; must not
- 让x3 | Chapter Rank #491to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])
- 人们x1 | Chapter Rank #1271people
- 利用x1 | Chapter Rank #1272to exploit; to make use of; to use; to take advantage of; to utilize
- 来x7 | Chapter Rank #182to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- 开x1 | Chapter Rank #1273to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start; to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run; to boil; to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc); (directional complement) away; off; carat (gold); abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2]; abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format
- 追悼会x1 | Chapter Rank #1274memorial service; funeral service
- 见x23 | Chapter Rank #39to appear; also written 現|现[xian4]to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth); to interview; opinion; view
- 近况x3 | Chapter Rank #492recent developments; current situation
- 档案x7 | Chapter Rank #183file; record; archive
- 材料x8 | Chapter Rank #156(raw) material; data; (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job
- 交待x2 | Chapter Rank #729
- 后事x4 | Chapter Rank #363future events; and what happened next... (in fiction); funeral arrangements
- 如此x4 | Chapter Rank #364like this; so; such
- 谈及x3 | Chapter Rank #493to talk about; to mention
- 生死x2 | Chapter Rank #730life or death
- 事x17 | Chapter Rank #59matter; thing; item; work; affair; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]
- 已经x1 | Chapter Rank #1275already
- 预感x2 | Chapter Rank #731to have a premonition; premonition
- 将x29 | Chapter Rank #30will; 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])(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 request
- 不久x2 | Chapter Rank #732not long (after); before too long; soon; soon after
- 于x30 | Chapter Rank #29to go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particlesurname Yu(of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by
- 人世x1 | Chapter Rank #1276the world; this world; the world of the living
- 贯穿x1 | Chapter Rank #1277to run through; a connecting thread from beginning to end; to link
- 着x22 | Chapter Rank #41to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding ina move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to addaspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing stateto wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to apply
- 坎坷x2 | Chapter Rank #733(of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
- 一生x10 | Chapter Rank #118all one's life; throughout one's life
- 是x102 | Chapter Rank #8to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion)
- 种x14 | Chapter Rank #82to plant; to grow; to cultivateseed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts
- 顽强x1 | Chapter Rank #1278tenacious; hard to defeat
- 正是x6 | Chapter Rank #221is precisely
- 无数次x1 | Chapter Rank #1279
- 令x6 | Chapter Rank #222to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make sth happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poemclassifier for a ream of paperused in 脊令[ji2 ling2]; used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])
- 傲视x1 | Chapter Rank #1280to turn up one's nose; to show disdain for; to regard superciliously
- 与x91 | Chapter Rank #10to take part in(formal) and; together with (linking parallel nouns, verbs, or phrases); (formal) with; from (marking the other participant in an interaction, comparison, or contrast, e.g. 與他握手|与他握手[yu3 ta1 wo4 shou3] "shake hands with him", 與去年不同|与去年不同[yu3 qu4 nian2 bu4 tong2] "different from last year"); (literary) to give; to grant; to bestow
- 苦难x1 | Chapter Rank #1281suffering
- 每x3 | Chapter Rank #494each; every
- 遭x3 | Chapter Rank #495to meet by chance (usually with misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
- 一重x1 | Chapter Rank #1282
- 摧折x1 | Chapter Rank #1283
- 高贵x1 | Chapter Rank #1284grandeur; noble