Vocabulary: 大师的盛宴
- 休 Xīu: 休 Xiu1: surname Xiu休 xīu: 休 xiu1: to rest; to stop doing sth for a period of time; to cease; (imperative) don't
- 拉 lá: 拉 la2: to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash拉 là: 拉 la4: used in 拉拉蛄[la4 la4 gu3]拉 lā: 拉 la1: to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels
- Frederick (name)
- Brian (name)
- 阿 ā: 阿 a1: prefix 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]阿 ē: 阿 e1: (literary) to flatter; to curry favor with
- to enlighten
- to enrich; rich; plentiful; abundant
- if; if one were to say
- to be born; (fig.) to develop out of sth else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc); (fig.) to shed one's body (to be reborn); bodiless (e.g. lacquerware)
- after that; then
- to betray; to desert; to defect from; to turn renegade
- people of one's parents' generation
- road; path; way; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- to hold; to seize; to catch; to apprehend; to take; (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)
- 过 guo: 过 guo5: (experienced action marker)过 Gūo: 过 Guo1: surname Guo过 gùo: 过 guo4: to cross; to go over; to pass (time); to celebrate (a holiday); to live; to get along; excessively; too-
- relay baton; (fig.) responsibilities (passed over to one's successor)
- eight
- (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items
- 孙 sūn: 孙 sun1: grandson; descendant孙 Sūn: 孙 Sun1: surname Sun
- lifetime; generation; group of people; class; classifier for generations; (literary) classifier for people
- yin and yang
- boundary
- interstellar; interplanetary
- (of a ship, aircraft or migratory bird) to lose its way; (fig.) to drift off course (in life, projects etc)
- 读 dòu: 读 dou4: comma; phrase marked by pause读 dú: 读 du2: to read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend (school); to study (a subject in school); to pronounce
- et cetera; and so on ...; wait a minute!; hold on!
- to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect; a discovery
- any; whatever; whichever
- 打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]
- independent; independence; to stand alone
- label; tag; (computing) tab (GUI element)
- to compete; competition; match; to surpass; better than; superior to; to excel
- (bound form) abundant; plentiful; extensive; wide; to win; to gain; to play; to gamble; learned; well-read; (bound form) doctoral degree (abbr. for 博士[bo2 shi4]); (bound form) blog (abbr. for 博客[bo2 ke4])
- punk (music style) (loanword)
- humanism
- to create; to produce; to write; a creative work; a creation
- (idiom) to follow one's heart's desires; to do as one pleases
- 地 dì: 地 di4: earth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]地 de: 地 de5: -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- so long as; provided; if
- 多少 dūo shǎo: 多少 duo1 shao3: number; amount; somewhat多少 dūo shao: 多少 duo1 shao5: how much?; how many?; (phone number, student ID etc) what number?
- in accordance with; to agree with; to conform to; to meet (a requirement); (physics) coincidence
- to progress (or increase, change etc) day by day; more (or better etc) with each passing day
- vague; indistinct; fuzzy; to blur; to obscure; to confuse; to mix up
- equivalent to 就可以; can then (do sth); can immediately (do sth); (do sth) and that will suffice