Vocabulary: 冬日笔记
- 夏 Xià: 夏 Xia4: the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC; Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407–432); surname Xia夏 xià: 夏 xia4: summer
- to celebrate
- joking matter; to go back on one's words
- 贵 gùi: 贵 gui4: expensive; (bound form) highly valued; precious; (bound form) noble; of high rank; (prefix) (honorific) your贵 Gùi: 贵 Gui4: short name for Guizhou 貴州|贵州[Gui4 zhou1]
- ruins
- price; cost; consideration (in share dealing)
- to control; to dominate; to allocate
- backyard garden
- Minnesota, USA
- to major (in a field); to study a specialty to obtain a higher degree
- doctoral degree; PhD
- Cornell (University)
- Michigan, US state
- generous; ample
- senior; highly experienced; veteran
- to find a place for; to help settle down; to arrange for; undisturbed; peaceful
- hinterland; interior; outback
- no good
- plan; project; program; to plan; to map out; CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4]
- to miss; to long for; to remember with longing; yearning
- remorse
- (idiom) to act without taking time to think; to react instantly; to fire from the hip
- place; location; (after a noun) place where it is located
- marketplace; market; bazaar; (economics) market
- to sell off
- to overestimate; to overrate
- financial resources
- a little bit
- untiring; unremitting; indefatigable
- to wind up; to bring to an end; to finish
- thousands (of sth)
- the surface of a wall (esp. an interior wall)
- to receive; to entertain; to host (guests, visitors or clients)
- parlor
- to drink (alcohol)
- time interval; work shift; time slot; the twelve two-hour divisions of the day
- triple
- progressively; step by step
- multistoried building; tower; pagoda
- unkempt
- brilliant; shiny; a flare; to glisten; to twinkle
- to step into; to enter
- already at an earlier time
- the top and bottom of sth; the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom; to go up and down; before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context"); (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so; (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates"); all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation"); relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")