Vocabulary: 天问（节选）
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- 疏通x1 | Chapter Rank #1486to unblock; to dredge; to clear the way; to get things flowing; to facilitate; to mediate; to lobby; to explicate (a text)
- 读x4 | Chapter Rank #324comma; phrase marked by pauseto read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend (school); to study (a subject in school); to pronounce
- 签x1 | Chapter Rank #1487to sign one's name; to write brief comments on a document; visainscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc); small wood sliver; label; tag
- 痴x1 | Chapter Rank #1488imbecile; sentimental; stupid; foolish; silly
- 猫头鹰x1 | Chapter Rank #1489owl
- 一类x2 | Chapter Rank #837same type; category 1 (i.e. class A)
- 夜x2 | Chapter Rank #838night
- 拖x1 | Chapter Rank #1490to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on
- 衮x1 | Chapter Rank #1491imperial robe
- 颛顼x2 | Chapter Rank #839Zhuanxu, one of the Five Legendary Emperors 五帝[wu3 di4], grandson of the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4], trad. reigned 2513-2435 BC
- 专x1 | Chapter Rank #1492for a particular person, occasion, purpose; focused on one thing; special; expert; particular (to sth); concentrated; specialized
- 须x1 | Chapter Rank #1493must; to have to; to waitbeard; mustache; feeler (of an insect etc); tassel
- 杀死x5 | Chapter Rank #225to kill
- 据x4 | Chapter Rank #325used in 拮据[jie2 ju1]according to; to act in accordance with; to depend on; to seize; to occupy
- 尚书x1 | Chapter Rank #1494same as 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1] Book of Historyhigh official; government minister
- 典x1 | Chapter Rank #1495canon; law; standard work of scholarship; literary quotation or allusion; ceremony; to be in charge of; to mortgage or pawn
- 饿x1 | Chapter Rank #1496hungry; to starve (sb)
- 绝x1 | Chapter Rank #1497to cut short; extinct; to disappear; to vanish; absolutely; by no means
- 丧命x1 | Chapter Rank #1498to lose one's life
- 今x6 | Chapter Rank #177now; the present time; current; contemporary; this (day, year etc)
- 山东省x2 | Chapter Rank #840Shandong Province, capital Jinan 濟南市|济南市[Ji3 nan2 Shi4] (short name 魯|鲁[Lu3])
- 弛x1 | Chapter Rank #1499to unstring a bow; to slacken; to relax; to loosen
- 变易x1 | Chapter Rank #1500
- 引申作x1 | Chapter Rank #1501
- 神话x7 | Chapter Rank #143legend; fairy tale; myth; mythology
- 尸首x3 | Chapter Rank #499dead body; corpse (Note: In expressions like 屍首分離|尸首分离[shi1 shou5 fen1 li2] or 屍首異處|尸首异处[shi1 shou5 yi4 chu4], decapitation is implied.)
- 烂x1 | Chapter Rank #1502soft; mushy; well-cooked and soft; to rot; to decompose; rotten; worn out; chaotic; messy; utterly; thoroughly; crappy; bad
- 剖开x1 | Chapter Rank #1503
- 继续x2 | Chapter Rank #841to continue; to proceed with; to go on with
- 跟x1 | Chapter Rank #1504heel; to follow closely; to go with; (of a woman) to marry sb; with; compared with; to; towards; and (joining two nouns)
- 于是x4 | Chapter Rank #326thereupon; as a result; consequently; thus; hence
- 先x1 | Chapter Rank #1505beforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now; (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
- 谋略x1 | Chapter Rank #1506stratagem; strategy; resourcefulness
- 渊泉x1 | Chapter Rank #1507deep springs
- 田x1 | Chapter Rank #1508field; farm; CL:片[pian4]surname Tian
- 填x1 | Chapter Rank #1509to fill or stuff; (of a form etc) to fill in
- 土x1 | Chapter Rank #1510surname Tu; Tu ethnic groupearth; dust; clay; local; indigenous; crude opium; unsophisticated; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
- 填塞x1 | Chapter Rank #1511to fill up; to cram; to stuff
- 上中下x1 | Chapter Rank #1512
- 禹治水x1 | Chapter Rank #1513
- 尾巴x1 | Chapter Rank #1514tail; colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5]
- 划过x1 | Chapter Rank #1515(of a meteor etc) to streak across (the sky); (of a searchlight, lightning etc) to play across (the sky)
- 河流x1 | Chapter Rank #1516river; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- 排泄x1 | Chapter Rank #1517to drain (factory waste etc); to excrete (urine, sweat etc)
- 出去x1 | Chapter Rank #1518to go out
- 天柱x1 | Chapter Rank #1519see 天柱縣|天柱县[Tian1 zhu4 Xian4]pillars supporting heaven
- 折x1 | Chapter Rank #1520to turn sth over; to turn upside down; to tip sth out (of a container)to snap; to break (a stick, a bone etc); (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business)to break; to fracture; to snap; to suffer loss; to bend; to twist; to turn; to change direction; convinced; to convert into (currency); discount; rebate; tenth (in price); classifier for theatrical scenes; to fold; accounts bookto fold
- 断x1 | Chapter Rank #1521to break; to snap; to cut off; to give up or abstain from sth; to judge; (usu. used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly
- 所以x4 | Chapter Rank #327therefore; as a result; so; the reason why
- 倾陷x1 | Chapter Rank #1522to frame (an innocent person); to collapse