Vocabulary: 第七章 围城
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 所剩x1 | Chapter Rank #2460
- 积蓄x2 | Chapter Rank #1450to save; to put aside; savings
- 根本x3 | Chapter Rank #985fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 难以x4 | Chapter Rank #744hard to (predict, imagine etc)
- 维持x3 | Chapter Rank #986to keep; to maintain; to preserve
- 一家人x2 | Chapter Rank #1451the whole family; members of the same family (lit. or fig.)
- 生计x4 | Chapter Rank #745livelihood
- 身为x9 | Chapter Rank #335in the capacity of; as
- 长女x3 | Chapter Rank #987eldest daughter
- 每x7 | Chapter Rank #415each; every
- 念及x1 | Chapter Rank #2461
- 此x10 | Chapter Rank #308this; these
- 归心似箭x1 | Chapter Rank #2462with one's heart set on speeding home (idiom)
- 无奈x4 | Chapter Rank #746to have no alternative; frustrated; exasperated; helpless; (conjunction) but unfortunately
- 频频x1 | Chapter Rank #2463repeatedly; again and again; continuously; constantly
- 电函x1 | Chapter Rank #2464
- 劝阻x2 | Chapter Rank #1452to advise against; to dissuade
- 福建x4 | Chapter Rank #747see 福建省[Fu2 jian4 Sheng3]
- 形势x1 | Chapter Rank #2465circumstances; situation; terrain; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 混乱x1 | Chapter Rank #2466confused; chaotic; disorderly
- 交通不便x1 | Chapter Rank #2467
- 恐难x1 | Chapter Rank #2468
- 成行x2 | Chapter Rank #1453to embark on a journey
- 建议x5 | Chapter Rank #596to propose; to suggest; to recommend; proposal; suggestion; recommendation (CL:點|点[dian3])
- 其x17 | Chapter Rank #168his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it)
- 暂时x6 | Chapter Rank #496temporary; provisional; for the time being
- 留在x3 | Chapter Rank #988
- 美国x29 | Chapter Rank #97United States; USA; US
- 欲x2 | Chapter Rank #1454desire; appetite; passion; lust; greedto wish for; to desire
- 归x1 | Chapter Rank #2469to return; to go back to; to give back to; (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by; to belong to; to gather together; (used between two identical verbs) despite; to marry (of a woman) (old); division on the abacus with a one-digit divisorsurname Gui
- 留x2 | Chapter Rank #1455to leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay; to remain; to keep; to preserve
- 为难x1 | Chapter Rank #2470to feel embarrassed or awkward; to make things difficult (for someone); to find things difficult (to do or manage)
- 故x3 | Chapter Rank #989happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead
- 有如x3 | Chapter Rank #990to be like sth; similar to; alike
- 劈面x1 | Chapter Rank #2471right in the face
- 滔天x1 | Chapter Rank #2472(of waves, anger, a disaster, a crime etc) towering; overwhelming; immense
- 巨浪x1 | Chapter Rank #2473
- 一夜间x1 | Chapter Rank #2474
- 令人羡慕x2 | Chapter Rank #1456
- 阔x2 | Chapter Rank #1457rich; wide; broad
- 家x19 | Chapter Rank #149used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 闺秀x3 | Chapter Rank #991well-bred young lady
- 打x5 | Chapter Rank #597(loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")
- 落成x1 | Chapter Rank #2475to complete a construction project
- 家道中落x1 | Chapter Rank #2476to come down in the world (idiom); to suffer a reversal of fortune
- 失x2 | Chapter Rank #1458to lose; to miss; to fail
- 怙x1 | Chapter Rank #2477to rely on; father (formal)
- 孤女x1 | Chapter Rank #2478
- 费用x3 | Chapter Rank #992cost; expenditure; expense; CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4]
- 失去x4 | Chapter Rank #748to lose