Vocabulary: 天问（节选）
from 楚辞选
- 做官x1 | Chapter Rank #1910to take an official post; to become a government employee
- 牧民x1 | Chapter Rank #1911herdsman
- 撤x1 | Chapter Rank #1912to remove; to take away
- 毁掉x1 | Chapter Rank #1913to destroy
- 陕西省x1 | Chapter Rank #1914Shaanxi Province, capital Xi'an 西安市[Xi1 an1 Shi4] (short name 陝|陕[Shan3] or 秦[Qin2])
- 建国x1 | Chapter Rank #1915to found a country; nation-building; the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949
- 土地x2 | Chapter Rank #891land; soil; territory; CL:片[pian4],塊|块[kuai4]local god; genius loci
- 臣子x1 | Chapter Rank #1916official in feudal court; subject
- 孳x1 | Chapter Rank #1917industrious; produce; bear
- 伯邑考x2 | Chapter Rank #892Bo Yikao, eldest son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王[Zhou1 Wen2 wang2] and elder brother of King Wu of Zhou 周武王[Zhou1 Wu3 wang2]
- 抵押x1 | Chapter Rank #1918to provide (an asset) as security for a loan; to put up collateral
- 替x1 | Chapter Rank #1919to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for
- 驾车x1 | Chapter Rank #1920to drive a vehicle
- 烹x1 | Chapter Rank #1921to boil; to brew (tea); to cook by briefly stir-frying and then mixing in sauce; (old) to boil to death (judicial punishment in ancient times)
- 官名x1 | Chapter Rank #1922name of job in Imperial bureaucracy; official position
- 姜太公x1 | Chapter Rank #1923see Jiang Ziya 姜子牙[Jiang1 Zi3 ya2]
- 街市x1 | Chapter Rank #1924downtown area; commercial district; (chiefly Cantonese) wet market, i.e. a marketplace selling fresh meat, fish and vegetables etc
- 认识x1 | Chapter Rank #1925to know; to recognize; to be familiar with; to get acquainted with sb; knowledge; understanding; awareness; cognition
- 叫喊x1 | Chapter Rank #1926exclamation; outcry; shout; yell
- 刀柄x1 | Chapter Rank #1927
- 铃x2 | Chapter Rank #893(small) bell; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- 抓起x1 | Chapter Rank #1928
- 响x1 | Chapter Rank #1929echo; sound; noise; to make a sound; to sound; to ring; loud; classifier for noises
- 看见x1 | Chapter Rank #1930to see; to catch sight of
- 上前x1 | Chapter Rank #1931to advance; to step forward
- 问话x1 | Chapter Rank #1932to ask sb a question; question
- 吕x1 | Chapter Rank #1933pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone systemsurname Lü
- 下面x1 | Chapter Rank #1934below; under; next; the following; also pr. [xia4 mian5]to boil noodles
- 很x1 | Chapter Rank #1935very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- 高兴x1 | Chapter Rank #1936happy; glad; willing (to do sth); in a cheerful mood
- 帮助x1 | Chapter Rank #1937assistance; aid; to help; to assist
- 治国x1 | Chapter Rank #1938to rule a country
- 周武王x1 | Chapter Rank #1939King Wu of Zhou (-1043), personal name Ji Fa 姬發|姬发, reigned 1046-1043 BC as first king of Western Zhou dynasty 1046-1043 BC
- 益x1 | Chapter Rank #1940surname Yibenefit; profit; advantage; beneficial; to increase; to add; all the more
- 心里x1 | Chapter Rank #1941chest; heart; mind
- 痛快x1 | Chapter Rank #1942delighted; to one's heart's content; straightforward; also pr. [tong4 kuai5]
- 不久x1 | Chapter Rank #1943not long (after); before too long; soon; soon after
- 会合x1 | Chapter Rank #1944to meet; to rendezvous; to merge; to link up; meeting; confluence
- 柏林x1 | Chapter Rank #1945Berlin, capital of Germany
- 柏树林x1 | Chapter Rank #1946
- 勾x1 | Chapter Rank #1947to attract; to arouse; to tick; to strike out; to delineate; to colludeused in 勾當|勾当[gou4 dang4]surname Gou
- 引x1 | Chapter Rank #1948to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
- 史记x1 | Chapter Rank #1949Records of the Grand Historian, by 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1], first of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3]
- 本纪x1 | Chapter Rank #1950biographic sketch of an emperor
- 认为x1 | Chapter Rank #1951to believe; to think; to consider; to feel
- 自焚x1 | Chapter Rank #1952to set oneself on fire; to self-immolate
- 珠玉x1 | Chapter Rank #1953pearls and jades; jewels; clever remark; beautiful writing; gems of wisdom; genius; outstanding person
- 衣x1 | Chapter Rank #1954clothes; CL:件[jian4]; Kangxi radical 145to dress; to wear; to put on (clothes)
- 后人x1 | Chapter Rank #1955later generation
- 误读x1 | Chapter Rank #1956to misread; (fig.) to misunderstand; to misinterpret