Vocabulary: 第三章 晚年人生的第一轮勃发
from 陈寅恪的最后二十年
- 写道x1 | Chapter Rank #1776to write (used before or after a quoted passage)
- 求医x1 | Chapter Rank #1777to seek medical treatment; to see a doctor
- 万里x1 | Chapter Rank #1778far away; thousands of miles; 10,000 liWan Li (1916-2015), PRC politicianWanli township in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan
- 乞食x1 | Chapter Rank #1779to beg for food
- 门x1 | Chapter Rank #1780gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4]); valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure; way to do sth; knack; method; approach; family; household; lineage; (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic); (bound form) class; category; division; phylum; classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc; (suffix) -gate (scandal)surname Men
- 务x3 | Chapter Rank #440affair; business; matter; to be engaged in; to attend to; by all means
- 赵x1 | Chapter Rank #1781to surpass (old)surname Zhao; one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476–220 BC); the Former Zhao 前趙|前赵[Qian2 Zhao4] (304–329) and Later Zhao 後趙|后赵[Hou4 Zhao4] (319–350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms
- 庄x1 | Chapter Rank #1782farmstead; village; manor; place of business; banker (in a gambling game); grave or solemn; holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)surname Zhuang
- 谶x1 | Chapter Rank #1783(literary) prophecy; omen
- 明x1 | Chapter Rank #1784Ming Dynasty (1368–1644); surname Ming; Ming (c. 2000 BC), fourth of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer Godbright; opposite: dark 暗[an4]; (of meaning) clear; to understand; next; public or open; wise; generic term for a sacrifice to the gods
- 悲x1 | Chapter Rank #1785sad; sadness; sorrow; grief
- 需x1 | Chapter Rank #1786to require; to need; to want; necessity; need
- 解x2 | Chapter Rank #752to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissectionto transport under guardacrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old)surname Xie
- 陆x2 | Chapter Rank #753six (banker's anti-fraud numeral)(bound form) land (as opposed to the sea)surname Lu
- 贬x1 | Chapter Rank #1787to diminish; to demote; to reduce or devaluate; to disparage; to censure; to depreciate
- 赋x1 | Chapter Rank #1788poetic essay; taxation; to bestow on; to endow with
- 描述x1 | Chapter Rank #1789to describe; description
- 盲目x1 | Chapter Rank #1790(fig.) (of one's actions) blind; unthinking
- 艺人x1 | Chapter Rank #1791entertainer; performing artist; artisan; craftsman
- 古风x1 | Chapter Rank #1792old style; old custom; a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗[gu3 ti3 shi1]
- 说唱x1 | Chapter Rank #1793speaking and singing, as in various forms of storytelling such as 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2] and 相聲|相声[xiang4 sheng5]; (music) rapping
- 蔡x3 | Chapter Rank #441surname Cai
- 邕x3 | Chapter Rank #442city surrounded by a moatYong River (Guangxi); short name for Nanning (Guangxi)
- 故事x1 | Chapter Rank #1794old practicenarrative; story; tale
- 又名x1 | Chapter Rank #1795also known as; alternative name; to also be called
- 蔡伯喈x2 | Chapter Rank #754
- 东汉x2 | Chapter Rank #755Eastern or later Han dynasty, 25-220
- 灵x1 | Chapter Rank #1796quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin
- 帝x1 | Chapter Rank #1797(bound form) emperor; sovereign; supreme deity
- 郎x1 | Chapter Rank #1798(arch.) minister; official; noun prefix denoting function or status; a youthsurname Lang
- 献帝x1 | Chapter Rank #1799
- 拜x1 | Chapter Rank #1800to bow to; to pay one's respects; (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion); to make a courtesy call; (bound form) (of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony; to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc); (used before some verbs to indicate politeness)
- 左x1 | Chapter Rank #1801left; the Left (politics); east; unorthodox; queer; wrong; differing; oppositesurname Zuo
- 中郎将x1 | Chapter Rank #1802general of the household, a mid-ranking military officer responsible for palace or court duties
- 世x1 | Chapter Rank #1803life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime; epoch; descendant; noblesurname Shi
- 称为x1 | Chapter Rank #1804to be called; to be known as; to call it "..."
- 徐渭x1 | Chapter Rank #1805Xu Wei (1521-1593), Ming dynasty Chinese painter and author
- 叙x1 | Chapter Rank #1806abbr. for Syria 敘利亞|叙利亚[Xu4 li4 ya4]to narrate; to chat
- 宋元x1 | Chapter Rank #1807
- 旧x2 | Chapter Rank #756old; opposite: new 新; former; worn (with age)
- 载x2 | Chapter Rank #757to carry; to convey; to load; to hold; to fill up; and; also; as well as; simultaneouslyto record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. [zai4]; year
- 宋光宗x1 | Chapter Rank #1808
- 年间x2 | Chapter Rank #758in the years of; during those years; period (of dynasty or decade)
- 背x1 | Chapter Rank #1809the back of a body or object; to turn one's back; to hide something from; to learn by heart; to recite from memory; (slang) unlucky; hard of hearingto carry on one's back; (fig.) to bear; to shoulder (a burden, blame etc)
- 妇x1 | Chapter Rank #1810woman
- 雷x1 | Chapter Rank #1811thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[di4 lei2] land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)surname Lei
- 震x1 | Chapter Rank #1812to shake; to vibrate; to jolt; to quake; excited; shocked; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing thunder; ☳
- 剧目x1 | Chapter Rank #1813theatrical piece (play or opera); repertoire; list of plays or operas
- 上演x2 | Chapter Rank #759to screen (a movie); to stage (a play); a screening; a staging
- 附会x1 | Chapter Rank #1814to add parallels and interpretations (to a story etc); to develop and embellish; to interpret (often in a strained manner)