Vocabulary: 地心游记
- huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)
- unsurpassed; extreme; extraordinary
- great person
- hero; CL:個|个[ge4]
- readily; flatly (deny, admit and so on); a mouthful; a bite
- how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things?
- (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)?
- to view as; to see as; to consider to be; to deem
- to suffer; to sustain (loss, misfortune)
- to persecute
- executioner; headsman; slaughterer; fig. indiscriminate murderer
- very good
- greatly; enormously; (dialect) dad; uncle
- to be classified as
- to act against one's will; to have no alternative but to; to have to; to have no choice; must
- amazing; terrific; extraordinary
- 秘 mì: 秘 mi4: secret; secretary秘 bì: 秘 bi4: see 秘魯|秘鲁[Bi4 lu3]
- special; particular; unusual; extraordinary
- poverty-stricken; very poor; hard-pressed; in a predicament; embarrassed
- kindness; good intentions
- 汲 jí: 汲 ji2: to draw (water)汲 Jí: 汲 Ji2: surname Ji
- wealth; riches
- Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), Swiss mathematician
- 夫 fū: 夫 fu1: husband; man; manual worker; conscripted laborer (old)夫 fú: 夫 fu2: (classical) this, that; he, she, they; (exclamatory final particle); (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
- to offer (tribute); to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc); to esteem; to revere; to believe in (a religion); to wait upon; to accept orders (from superior)
- 国 Gúo: 国 Guo2: surname Guo国 gúo: 国 guo2: country; nation; state; (bound form) national
- to investigate; to survey
- 托 tūo: 托 tuo1: to hold up in one's hand; to support with one's palm; sth serving as a support: a prop, a rest (e.g. arm rest); (bound form) a shill; torr (unit of pressure)托 tūo: 托 tuo1: to trust; to entrust; to be entrusted with; to act as trustee
- research; a study; CL:項|项[xiang4]; to research; to look into
- 侯 Hóu: 侯 Hou2: surname Hou侯 hóu: 侯 hou2: marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; nobleman; high official侯 hòu: 侯 hou4: used in 閩侯|闽侯[Min3 hou4] (the name of a place in Fujian)
- 贝 Bèi: 贝 Bei4: surname Bei贝 bèi: 贝 bei4: cowrie; shellfish; currency (archaic)
- escort vessel; frigate; corvette
- to explore; to probe
- to come (formal); before; previously
- to inspect; to observe and study; on-the-spot investigation
- recently; soon; nearest
- silk; thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a trace (of smoke etc), a tiny bit etc
- empress; imperial consort