Vocabulary: 离奇故事，小小谜题
from 达·芬奇传：自由的心灵
- 活跃x1 | Chapter Rank #403active; lively; excited; to enliven; to brighten up
- 米兰x3 | Chapter Rank #128Milano; Milan (Italy)
- 宫廷x6 | Chapter Rank #64court (of king or emperor)
- 佛罗伦萨x2 | Chapter Rank #205Florence, Italy
- 人x33 | Chapter Rank #8person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- 于x3 | Chapter Rank #129surname Yuto go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle(of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by
- 离开x2 | Chapter Rank #206to depart; to leave
- 而x14 | Chapter Rank #20and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast)
- 根据x2 | Chapter Rank #207according to; based on; basis; foundation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 这份x2 | Chapter Rank #208
- 草稿x3 | Chapter Rank #130draft; outline; sketch
- 笔迹x1 | Chapter Rank #404handwriting
- 判断x1 | Chapter Rank #405to judge; to determine; judgment
- 正是x1 | Chapter Rank #406is precisely
- 这x39 | Chapter Rank #6(coll.) this(pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)
- 创作x1 | Chapter Rank #407to create; to produce; to write; a creative work; a creation
- 因此x3 | Chapter Rank #131thus; consequently; as a result
- 送x1 | Chapter Rank #408to send; to deliver; to transmit; to give (as a present); to see (sb) off; to accompany; to go along with
- 他的x12 | Chapter Rank #28
- 礼物x1 | Chapter Rank #409gift; present; CL:件[jian4],份[fen4]
- 或许x2 | Chapter Rank #209perhaps; maybe
- 这个x3 | Chapter Rank #132(pronoun) this; (adjective) this
- 告别仪式x1 | Chapter Rank #410
- 上x17 | Chapter Rank #17used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1](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; above
- 朗诵x2 | Chapter Rank #210to read aloud with expression; to recite; to declaim
- 索x2 | Chapter Rank #211to search; to demand; to ask; to exact; large rope; isolatedsurname Suo; abbr. for 索馬里|索马里[Suo3 ma3 li3], Somalia
- 罗x2 | Chapter Rank #212gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to siftsurname Luo
- 阿x2 | Chapter Rank #213prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity; used in transliteration; (bound form) Afghanistan (abbr. for 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4]); (bound form) Albania (abbr. for 阿爾巴尼亞|阿尔巴尼亚[A1 er3 ba1 ni2 ya4]); (bound form) Algeria (abbr. for 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚[A1 er3 ji2 li4 ya4]); (bound form) Argentina (abbr. for 阿根廷[A1 gen1 ting2]); also pr. [a4](literary) to flatter; to curry favor with
- 斯特罗x2 | Chapter Rank #214
- 正好x2 | Chapter Rank #215just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that
- 扮演x1 | Chapter Rank #411to play the role of; to act
- 角色x2 | Chapter Rank #216role; part (in a play or movie etc); also pr. [jiao3se4]
- 又x3 | Chapter Rank #133(once) again; also; both... and...; and yet; (used for emphasis) anyway
- 或者x3 | Chapter Rank #134or; possibly; maybe; perhaps
- 以往x1 | Chapter Rank #412in the past; formerly
- 虎头蛇尾x2 | Chapter Rank #217lit. tiger's head, snake's tail (idiom); fig. a strong start but weak finish
- 一样x5 | Chapter Rank #77same; like; equal to; the same as; just like
- 除了x1 | Chapter Rank #413apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- 再x2 | Chapter Rank #218again; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time; (before an adjective) more; then (after sth, and not until then); no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis); (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4 ze2], 再就是[zai4 jiu4 shi4] etc); (literary) to reappear; to reoccur
- 无x1 | Chapter Rank #414not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -lessused in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]
- 下文x1 | Chapter Rank #415
- 这样x5 | Chapter Rank #78this way; like this; so; (before a noun) this kind of; such
- 开头x1 | Chapter Rank #416beginning; to start
- 亲爱x1 | Chapter Rank #417dear; beloved; darling
- 我x13 | Chapter Rank #23I; me; my
- 为x10 | Chapter Rank #37as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice)because of; for; to
- 您x2 | Chapter Rank #219you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你[ni3])
- 带来x2 | Chapter Rank #220to bring; (fig.) to bring about; to produce
- 来自x4 | Chapter Rank #97to come from (a place); From: (in email header)
- 东方x2 | Chapter Rank #221the East; the Orient; two-character surname Dongfangeast