Vocabulary: 第十八章 挽歌已隐约可闻
from 陈寅恪的最后二十年
- 或x4 | Chapter Rank #294maybe; perhaps; might; possibly; or
- 身后x3 | Chapter Rank #401the time after one's death; a place behind sb; (fig.) one's social background
- 都x12 | Chapter Rank #94capital city; metropolissurname Duall; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all
- 消融x2 | Chapter Rank #605to melt (e.g. an icecap)
- 在x129 | Chapter Rank #5to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
- 夺目x1 | Chapter Rank #1084to dazzle the eyes
- 光环x1 | Chapter Rank #1085ring of light; halo; (fig.) glory; splendor
- 里x9 | Chapter Rank #122lining; 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
- 生平x4 | Chapter Rank #295life (a person's whole life); in one's entire life
- 鲜为人知x2 | Chapter Rank #606rarely known to anyone (idiom); almost unknown; secret to all but a few
- 将x21 | Chapter Rank #44to 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])(bound form) a general; (literary) to command; to lead; (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
- 大半生x5 | Chapter Rank #231
- 紧紧x1 | Chapter Rank #1086closely; tightly
- 地x15 | Chapter Rank #66-ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunctearth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]
- 与x52 | Chapter Rank #17to 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
- 联结x3 | Chapter Rank #402to combine; to join; to link
- 一起x2 | Chapter Rank #607(in) the same place; together; in company (with); altogether; in total; an instance of; a case of (murder, accident, dispute etc)
- 相濡以沫x1 | Chapter Rank #1087lit. (of fish) to moisten each other with spittle (when out of the water) (idiom); fig. to share meager resources and support each other in times of difficulty
- 同悲x1 | Chapter Rank #1088
- 共x6 | Chapter Rank #181common; general; to share; together; total; altogether; abbr. for 共產黨|共产党[Gong4 chan3 dang3], Communist party
- 欢x1 | Chapter Rank #1089joyous; happy; pleasedhubbub; clamora breed of horse
- 又名x1 | Chapter Rank #1090also known as; alternative name; to also be called
- 家x5 | Chapter Rank #232used 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]
- 琇x1 | Chapter Rank #1091(jade)
- 晓x11 | Chapter Rank #98dawn; daybreak; to know; to let sb know; to make explicit
- 莹x13 | Chapter Rank #80luster of gems
- 年x140 | Chapter Rank #4year; CL:個|个[ge4]surname Niangrain; harvest (old)
- 生x8 | Chapter Rank #137to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire); to live; to be alive; life; raw; uncooked; unprocessed; unfamiliar; strange; (bound form) student; person engaged in a field; (bound form) male role in traditional opera; (bound form) life; lifetime; (bound form) means of livelihood; (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]); (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- 出生x2 | Chapter Rank #608to be born
- 三x8 | Chapter Rank #138three; 3surname San
- 前x13 | Chapter Rank #81front; forward; ahead; first; top (followed by a number); future; ago; before; BC (e.g. 前293年); former; formerly
- 祖父x2 | Chapter Rank #609father's father; paternal grandfather
- 景x24 | Chapter Rank #35(bound form) scenery; circumstance; situation; scene (of a play); (literary) sunlightsurname Jing
- 崧x24 | Chapter Rank #36
- 干x1 | Chapter Rank #1092surname Gandry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder(bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with; one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1]; (archaic) shieldtree trunk; main part of sth; to manage; to work; to do; capable; cadre; to kill (slang); to fuck (vulgar); (coll.) pissed off; annoyed
- 一件x2 | Chapter Rank #610
- 近代史x2 | Chapter Rank #611modern history (in Chinese historiography, from the Opium Wars to the fall of the Qing dynasty)
- 上x17 | Chapter Rank #58(bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb; to get onto; to go up; to attend (class or university); (directional complement) up; (noun suffix) on; aboveused in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]
- 影响x7 | Chapter Rank #157influence; effect; to influence; to affect (usually adversely); to disturb; CL:股[gu3]
- 甚x6 | Chapter Rank #182excessive; undue; to exceed; to be more than; very; extremely; (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. [shen2])
- 大的x3 | Chapter Rank #403
- 事x15 | Chapter Rank #67matter; thing; item; work; affair; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]
- 腐败x1 | Chapter Rank #1093corruption; to corrupt; to rot; rotten
- 清朝x1 | Chapter Rank #1094Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- 甲午战争x1 | Chapter Rank #1095First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
- 中x52 | Chapter Rank #18within; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during; (dialect) OK; all right(bound form) China; Chinese; surname Zhongto hit (a target); to be struck by (a bullet, illness etc); to win (a prize or lottery)
- 惨败x1 | Chapter Rank #1096to suffer a crushing defeat
- 次年x1 | Chapter Rank #1097
- 被迫x2 | Chapter Rank #612to be compelled; to be forced
- 日本x5 | Chapter Rank #233Japan