Vocabulary: 曼图亚和威尼斯
from 达·芬奇传：自由的心灵
- 讽刺x1 | Chapter Rank #680to satirize; to mock; irony; satire; sarcasm
- 潜台词x1 | Chapter Rank #681unspoken dialogue in a play, left for the audience to infer; subtext; (fig.) implicit assertion
- 这位x1 | Chapter Rank #682this (person)
- 困难x1 | Chapter Rank #683difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation
- 日子x1 | Chapter Rank #684day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life
- 里x3 | Chapter Rank #154lining; 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
- 因x1 | Chapter Rank #685cause; reason; because
- 需要x1 | Chapter Rank #686to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs
- 保护x1 | Chapter Rank #687to protect; to defend; to safeguard; protection; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- 选择x1 | Chapter Rank #688to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative
- 权宜x1 | Chapter Rank #689expedient
- 奉承x1 | Chapter Rank #690to fawn on; to flatter; to ingratiate oneself; flattery
- 讨好x1 | Chapter Rank #691to get the desired outcome; to win favor by fawning on sb; to curry favor with; a fruitful outcome to reward one's labor
- 停留x3 | Chapter Rank #155to stay somewhere temporarily; to stop over
- 太久x1 | Chapter Rank #692
- 大约x2 | Chapter Rank #278approximately; probably
- 继续x1 | Chapter Rank #693to continue; to proceed with; to go on with
- 前往x1 | Chapter Rank #694to leave for; to proceed towards; to go to
- 中旬x2 | Chapter Rank #279middle third of a month
- 肯定x2 | Chapter Rank #280to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer)
- 到达x1 | Chapter Rank #695to reach; to arrive
- 古x6 | Chapter Rank #61surname Guancient; old; paleo-
- 兹x4 | Chapter Rank #110used in 龜茲|龟兹[Qiu1 ci2](literary) this; (literary) now; (literary) year
- 纳x5 | Chapter Rank #76to receive; to accept; to enjoy; to bring into; to pay (tax etc); nano- (one billionth); to reinforce sole of shoes or stockings by close sewingsurname Na
- 戈x4 | Chapter Rank #111dagger-axe; abbr. for 戈瑞[ge1 rui4]; (Tw) abbr. for 戈雷[ge1 lei2]surname Ge
- 拜访x1 | Chapter Rank #696to pay a visit; to call on
- 居住x1 | Chapter Rank #697to reside; to dwell; to live in a place; resident in
- 乐器x1 | Chapter Rank #698musical instrument; CL:件[jian4]
- 制作x1 | Chapter Rank #699to make; to manufacture
- 之前x1 | Chapter Rank #700before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand
- 曾x1 | Chapter Rank #701great- (grandfather, grandchild etc)surname Zengonce; already; ever (in the past); former; previously; (past tense marker used before verb or clause)
- 工作x2 | Chapter Rank #281to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task; CL:個|个[ge4],份[fen4],項|项[xiang4]
- 因此x1 | Chapter Rank #702thus; consequently; as a result
- 日x7 | Chapter Rank #50(bound form) sun; day; day of the month; (bound form) Japan (abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3]); (vulgar) to fuck; to have sex with
- 同样x1 | Chapter Rank #703same; equal; similar; similarly; also; too
- 达x2 | Chapter Rank #282to attain; to reach; to amount to; to communicate; eminentsurname Da
- 芬奇x1 | Chapter Rank #704
- 我x7 | Chapter Rank #51I; me; my
- 看了x1 | Chapter Rank #705
- 夫人x1 | Chapter Rank #706lady; madam; Mrs.; CL:位[wei4]
- 您x1 | Chapter Rank #707you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你[ni3])
- 逼真x2 | Chapter Rank #283lifelike; true to life; distinctly; clearly
- 很漂亮x2 | Chapter Rank #284
- 好x3 | Chapter Rank #156good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) helloto be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
- 得x4 | Chapter Rank #112to have to; must; ought to; to need toto obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finishedused in 得瑟[de4 se5]structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc
- 不能x1 | Chapter Rank #708cannot; must not; should not
- 再x1 | Chapter Rank #709again; 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
- 透过x1 | Chapter Rank #710to pass through; to penetrate; by means of; via
- 番x1 | Chapter Rank #711(bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for processes or actions that take time and effort; (classifier) a kind; a sort; (classifier) (used after the verb 翻[fan1] to indicate how many times a quantity doubles, as in 翻一番[fan1 yi1 fan1] "to double")surname Pan
- 平淡x1 | Chapter Rank #712flat; dull; ordinary; nothing special