Vocabulary: 地心游记
- 伯 bǎi: 伯 bai3: one hundred (old)伯 bó: 伯 bo2: father's elder brother; senior; paternal elder uncle; eldest of brothers; respectful form of address; Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- to stop for a snack while traveling
- meandering; winding
- wrinkled; crumpled; unironed
- to present to a superior; memorial; petition; to present (a certain appearance); to assume (a shape); to be (a certain color)
- rope
- sometimes; now and then
- neighbor; adjacent; close to
- to destroy; to spoil; to ruin; to injure; cruel; oppressive; savage; brutal; incomplete; disabled; to remain; to survive; remnant; surplus
- to be witness to; witness; evidence
- former days; in the past
- how (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc); however (difficult it may be etc); (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc); to what extent
- violent; fierce
- upper class
- can be seen everywhere
- steaming; scathing
- to overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush; to try to catch (the bus etc); to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away; to avail oneself of (an opportunity); until; by (a certain time)
- lake
- scattered about like stars in the sky or chess pieces on a board (idiom); spread all over the place
- 西 Xī: 西 Xi1: the West; abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2]; Spanish西 xī: 西 xi1: west
- to step in; to stride forward; to forge ahead
- unobstructed; unconstrained; smoothly; with ease; freely
- tired; weary
- head high, chest out (idiom); to keep up one's spirits; in fine mettle (of animal)
- to travel far away from home
- to go for a stroll
- Saturday
- 滨海 bīn hǎi: 滨海 bin1 hai3: coastal; bordering the sea滨海 Bīn hǎi: 滨海 Bin1 hai3: Binhai (place name); Binhai New District, subprovincial district of Tianjin; Binhai county in Yancheng 鹽城|盐城[Yan2 cheng2], Jiangsu; fictitious city Binhai in political satire; Primorsky, a territory in the far east of Russia
- to enlighten
- to demand; to ask for
- to agree on sth (after discussion); to conclude a bargain; to arrange; to promise; to stipulate; to make an appointment; stipulated (time, amount, quality etc); an arrangement; a deal; appointment; undertaking; commitment; understanding; engagement; stipulation
- reward
- to pay in full; to pay all of a bill; to pay off
- a relative (i.e. family relation); CL:門|门[men2],個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- (of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather
- father's brother's sons; paternal male cousin
- to bother; to trouble; (polite expression of appreciation for time taken to hear, help or host the speaker) sorry to have bothered you; thank you for your time
- good person; healthy person; person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle
- to eliminate; to remove