Vocabulary: 都柏林人
- all-around; comprehensive; total; overall
- Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian dramatist, author of Doll's House 玩偶之家
- paper; treatise; thesis; CL:篇[pian1]; to discuss a paper or thesis (old)
- ancient Greece
- highest; greatest; too (much); very; extremely
- Shakespeare (name); William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright
- to talk (with sb); dialogue; conversation
- type; form; pattern; style
- old-fashioned; out of date; to be later than the time stipulated or agreed upon
- pagoda (abbr. for 塔婆[ta3 po2], a loanword from Sanskrit stūpa); tower; pylon (CL:座[zuo4]); (loanword) (pastry) tart
- 齐 Qí: 齐 Qi2: (name of states and dynasties at several different periods); surname Qi齐 qí: 齐 qi2: neat; even; level with; identical; simultaneous; all together; to even sth out
- 奥 ào: 奥 Ao4: (bound form) Austria (abbr. for 奧地利|奥地利[Ao4 di4 li4]); (bound form) Olympics (abbr. for 奧林匹克|奥林匹克[Ao4 lin2 pi3 ke4])奥 ào: 奥 ao4: obscure; mysterious
- playwright
- insignificant
- 只 zhǐ: 只 zhi3: only; merely; just只 zhī: 只 zhi1: grain that has begun to ripen只 zhī: 只 zhi1: classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
- to pay attention to; to emphasize
- circumstances; plot; storyline
- young; childish; puerile
- acrobatics; jugglery; trick; ploy
- only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才[cai2]) it is only if ... (that one can ...) (as in 只有通過治療才能痊愈|只有通过治疗才能痊愈[zhi3 you3 tong1 guo4 zhi4 liao2 cai2 neng2 quan2 yu4] "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only (someone) who ... (as in 只有男性才有此需要[zhi3 you3 nan2 xing4 cai2 you3 ci3 xu1 yao4] "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to express lack of alternatives) can only; have no choice but to (as in 只有屈服[zhi3 you3 qu1 fu2] "the only thing you can do is give in")
- the present age; the contemporary era
- 新 Xīn: 新 Xin1: abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xin1 jiang1]; abbr. for Singapore 新加坡[Xin1 jia1 po1]; surname Xin新 xīn: 新 xin1: new; newly; meso- (chemistry)
- ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only; (emphatic, esp. in contrast or correction) really; actually
- genuine; real; true; really; indeed
- worth the money; to merit; to deserve; to be worth (doing sth)
- to attach importance to sth; to value
- greater than; to exceed
- individual; personal; oneself
- human nature; humanity; human; the totality of human attributes
- constant; unvarying; (math.) invariant
- law; rule; code
- to pass on; to convey; to relay; to transmit; transmission
- the real meaning; the true essence
- apparently; it seems that
- is precisely
- to preach; to explain publicly
- 后 hòu: 后 hou4: empress; queen; (archaic) monarch; ruler后 Hòu: 后 Hou4: surname Hou后 hòu: 后 hou4: back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; post-
- to criticize; criticism; CL:次[ci4],番[fan1]
- to persevere with; to persist in; to insist on
- 观 Guàn: 观 Guan4: surname Guan观 guān: 观 guan1: to look at; to watch; to observe; to behold; to advise; concept; point of view; outlook观 guàn: 观 guan4: Taoist monastery; palace gate watchtower; platform
- not long (after); before too long; soon; soon after