Vocabulary: 都柏林人
- start of literary work; opening song of ballad in Tanci style 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2]
- to report (to the authorities); to declare (to customs)
- to review (a book)
- peculiar; unusual; queer
- hollow; emptiness; meaningless
- loose in morals; lascivious; licentious; lewd
- to distort; to misrepresent
- unique; distinctive
- 周 Zhōu: 周 Zhou1: surname Zhou; Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BC)周 zhōu: 周 zhou1: to make a circuit; to circle; circle; circumference; lap; cycle; complete; all; all over; thorough; to help financially周 zhōu: 周 zhou1: week; weekly
- left-leaning; progressive
- Soviet Union, 1922-1991; abbr. for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) 蘇維埃社會主義共和國聯盟|苏维埃社会主义共和国联盟[Su1 wei2 ai1 She4 hui4 zhu3 yi4 Gong4 he2 guo2 Lian2 meng2]
- decadent; dispirited; depressed; dejected
- to set (the tone, a target etc); to lay down (the beat)
- (literary) to pass away; to die; to depart from this world
- to push out; to release; to launch; to publish; to recommend
- 易 Yì: 易 Yi4: surname Yi; I Ching; Book of Changes (abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1])易 yì: 易 yi4: easy; amiable; to change; to exchange; prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"
- 士 shì: 士 shi4: member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor; honorific; soldier; noncommissioned officer; specialist worker士 Shì: 士 Shi4: surname Shi
- special collection; special issue; album
- sketch biography; profile
- to include (in a collection); to put together (stories, poems etc); to record; to employ; to recruit
- surname Song; the Song dynasty (960–1279); Song of the Southern Dynasties (420–479) 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4]
- to do one's duty as a younger brother
- 郭 Gūo: 郭 Guo1: surname Guo郭 gūo: 郭 guo1: outer city wall
- stamen; pistil
- disaster
- friend
- 律 Lǜ: 律 Lu:4: surname Lü律 lǜ: 律 lu:4: law
- to interrupt (sb speaking); interruption; digression
- 张 zhāng: 张 zhang1: to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes张 Zhāng: 张 Zhang1: surname Zhang
- Zoysia pungens
- castle; rook (chess piece)
- to translate and edit; translator-editor; (computing) to compile (source code)
- deep; profound
- Sino-foreign; Chinese-foreign; home and abroad
- training in the basic skills; knowledge of the fundamentals
- keen; sharp; acute
- before this; before then; previously