Vocabulary: 大象
from 茨威格中短篇小说选：上
- 午夜x1 | Chapter Rank #285midnight
- 时分x1 | Chapter Rank #286time; period during the day; one of the 12 two-hour periods enumerated by the earthly branches 地支
- 开始x2 | Chapter Rank #104to begin; beginning; to start; initial; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 熄灯x1 | Chapter Rank #287turn out the lights; lights out
- 才x6 | Chapter Rank #29ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only; (emphatic, esp. in contrast or correction) really; actually
- 悚然x1 | Chapter Rank #288frightened; terrified
- 惊醒x1 | Chapter Rank #289to rouse; to be woken by sth; to wake with a start; to sleep lightly
- 霍地x1 | Chapter Rank #290suddenly; abruptly
- 跳x1 | Chapter Rank #291to jump; to hop; to skip over; to bounce; to palpitate
- 起来x2 | Chapter Rank #105to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qi3lai2](after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state; indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]); indicating completion; (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment; also pr. [qi3lai5]
- 心惊胆战x1 | Chapter Rank #292lit. heart alarmed, trembling in fear (idiom); prostrate with fear; scared witless
- 顿时x1 | Chapter Rank #293immediately; suddenly
- 感到x9 | Chapter Rank #12to feel; to sense; to perceive
- 已经x8 | Chapter Rank #15already
- 走x2 | Chapter Rank #106to walk; to go; to run; to move (of vehicle); to visit; to leave; to go away; to die (euph.); from; through; away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]); to change (shape, form, meaning)
- 太x1 | Chapter Rank #294highest; greatest; too (much); very; extremely
- 远x1 | Chapter Rank #295far; distant; remote; (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc)to distance oneself from (classical)
- 平时x1 | Chapter Rank #296ordinarily; in normal times; in peacetime
- 玩火x1 | Chapter Rank #297to play with fire
- 把戏x1 | Chapter Rank #298acrobatics; jugglery; trick; ploy
- 并x2 | Chapter Rank #107and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to mergeto combine; to amalgamateshort name for Taiyuan 太原[Tai4 yuan2]
- 不x2 | Chapter Rank #108no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 陌生x2 | Chapter Rank #109strange; unfamiliar
- 敏锐x1 | Chapter Rank #299keen; sharp; acute
- 本能x1 | Chapter Rank #300instinct
- 这场x1 | Chapter Rank #301
- 多么x1 | Chapter Rank #302how (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc); however (difficult it may be etc); (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc); to what extent
- 近乎x1 | Chapter Rank #303close to; intimate
- 认真x1 | Chapter Rank #304conscientious; earnest; serious; to take seriously; to take to heart
- 发现自己x1 | Chapter Rank #305
- 把握x2 | Chapter Rank #110to grasp (also fig.); to seize; to hold; assurance; certainty; sure (of the outcome)
- 不住x1 | Chapter Rank #306(verb complement) unable to firmly or securely (grasp, recall etc); repeatedly; continuously; constantly
- 不由得x1 | Chapter Rank #307can't help; cannot but
- 打了个x1 | Chapter Rank #308
- 寒噤x2 | Chapter Rank #111a shiver
- 心里x2 | Chapter Rank #112chest; heart; mind
- 什么x5 | Chapter Rank #39what?; something; anything
- 东西x2 | Chapter Rank #113east and westthing; stuff; person; CL:個|个[ge4],件[jian4]
- 滑动x1 | Chapter Rank #309to slide; sliding movement
- 令x3 | Chapter Rank #65classifier for a ream of paperto 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 poemused in 脊令[ji2 ling2]; used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])
- 人x5 | Chapter Rank #40person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- 惊悸x1 | Chapter Rank #310shaking in fear; one's heart palpitating with fear
- 转向x1 | Chapter Rank #311to get lost; to lose one's wayto change direction; fig. to change one's stance
- 阵x1 | Chapter Rank #312disposition of troops; wave; spate; burst; spell; short period of time; classifier for events or states of short duration
- 旋风x1 | Chapter Rank #313whirlwind; tornado
- 头脑x2 | Chapter Rank #114brains; mind; skull; (fig.) gist (of a matter); leader; boss
- 里x4 | Chapter Rank #47lining; 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
- 波涛汹涌x1 | Chapter Rank #314waves surging forth; roaring sea
- 恐惧x8 | Chapter Rank #16to be frightened; fear; dread
- 美酒x1 | Chapter Rank #315good wine; fine liquor