Vocabulary: 地心游记
- smooth; steady
- Canada
- Britain; British; Great Britain
- tallest; highest; supreme (court etc)
- cruciform; cross shape
- horizontal; orthogonal; perpendicular; lateral; crosswise
- a right angle
- 轴 zhóu: 轴 zhou2: axis; axle; spool (for thread); roller (for scrolls); classifier for calligraphy rolls etc轴 zhòu: 轴 zhou4: see 壓軸戲|压轴戏[ya1 zhou4 xi4]; Taiwan pr. [zhou2]
- to call it...; known as...
- 翼 yì: 翼 yi4: wing; area surrounding the bullseye of a target; to assist; one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy翼 Yì: 翼 Yi4: surname Yi; alternative name for 絳|绛[Jiang4], the capital of the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period (770–475 BC)
- ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc
- (reception) hall; living room; office; provincial government department
- new style; latest type
- to draw together; to place side by side (e.g. one's fingers, two halves of a torn sheet of paper etc)
- mast
- to serve as; to act as; to play the role of
- mast
- 桁 háng: 桁 hang2: cangue (stocks to punish criminals)桁 héng: 桁 heng2: pole plate; purlin (cross-beam in roof); ridge-pole
- to borrow sth for another use; to borrow an idea for one's own use
- to bring together; to make do in a bad situation; to just get by; to improvise; passable; not too bad
- drinking water; potable water
- (of the people in a group) to get into position (idiom); (athletics) On your mark!
- helm; rudder
- to operate; to control; to rig; to manipulate
- to float; to hover; to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life); to rove; showy; superficial
- to steer (a ship)
- to adjust; adjustment; revision; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 中意 Zhōng Yì: 中意 Zhong1 Yi4: Sino-Italian中意 zhòng yì: 中意 zhong4 yi4: to take one's fancy; to be to one's liking
- 港 gǎng: 港 gang3: harbor; port; CL:個|个[ge4]港 Gǎng: 港 Gang3: Hong Kong (abbr. for 香港[Xiang1 gang3]); surname Gang
- palaeontology
- tortoise; cuckold
- Brazil
- to ruminate; to chew the cud
- large; large-scale
- dim; dark; overcast; darkness; shadow; (fig.) dismal; gloomy; somber; murky; shadowy (side)
- to yearn for sth day and night (idiom)
- fast as lightning
- driving force; impetus; thrust (of a boat or airplane engine); repelling force
- powerful
- electric fan