Vocabulary: 第十章 文坛多面手
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 文化界x1 | Chapter Rank #5916
- 中学x1 | Chapter Rank #5917middle school
- 瑞x2 | Chapter Rank #2654lucky; auspicious; propitious; rayl (acoustical unit)
- 廷x1 | Chapter Rank #5918palace courtyard
- 轰动效应x2 | Chapter Rank #2655sensational effect; wild reaction
- 改编自x1 | Chapter Rank #5919
- 莫里哀x1 | Chapter Rank #5920Molière (1622-1673), French playwright and actor, master of comedy
- 悭吝x2 | Chapter Rank #2656(literary) miserly; stingy
- 富裕x1 | Chapter Rank #5921see 富裕縣|富裕县[Fu4 yu4 Xian4]prosperous; well-to-do; well-off
- 守财奴x2 | Chapter Rank #2657miser; scrooge
- 韩x6 | Chapter Rank #716Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄; Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897; Korea, esp. South Korea 大韓民國|大韩民国; surname Han
- 吝啬x1 | Chapter Rank #5922stingy; mean; miserly
- 嫁妆x1 | Chapter Rank #5923dowry
- 绮丽x2 | Chapter Rank #2658beautiful; enchanting
- 许x1 | Chapter Rank #5924surname Xuto allow; to permit; to promise; to praise; somewhat; perhaps
- 年老x1 | Chapter Rank #5925aged
- 商人x1 | Chapter Rank #5926merchant; businessman
- 梵x2 | Chapter Rank #2659abbr. for 梵教[Fan4 jiao4] Brahmanism; abbr. for Sanskrit 梵語|梵语[Fan4 yu3] or 梵文[Fan4 wen2]; abbr. for 梵蒂岡|梵蒂冈[Fan4 di4 gang1], the Vatican
- 籁x2 | Chapter Rank #2660a sound; a noise; musical pipe with 3 reeds
- 韩家x1 | Chapter Rank #5927
- 账房x1 | Chapter Rank #5928an accounts office (in former times); an accountant; a cashier
- 娶x2 | Chapter Rank #2661to take a wife; to marry (a woman)
- 儿子x1 | Chapter Rank #5929son
- 扬x1 | Chapter Rank #5930to raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing; scattering (in the wind); to flutter; to propagateabbr. for Yangzhou 揚州|扬州[Yang2 zhou1] in Jiangsu; surname Yang
- 钟爱x1 | Chapter Rank #5931to treasure; to be very fond of
- 姑娘x1 | Chapter Rank #5932girl; young woman; young lady; daughter; paternal aunt (old); CL:個|个[ge4]
- 木兰x3 | Chapter Rank #1639see 木蘭縣|木兰县[Mu4 lan2 Xian4]; see 花木蘭|花木兰[Hua1 Mu4 lan2]lily magnolia (Magnolia liliflora)
- 继室x1 | Chapter Rank #5933second wife (of a widower)
- 束手无策x1 | Chapter Rank #5934lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis
- 之际x1 | Chapter Rank #5935during; at the time of
- 仆人x1 | Chapter Rank #5936servant
- 皮包x1 | Chapter Rank #5937handbag; briefcase
- 生命财产x1 | Chapter Rank #5938
- 有情人终成眷属x1 | Chapter Rank #5939love will find a way (idiom)
- 原来x1 | Chapter Rank #5940original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out
- 股票x2 | Chapter Rank #2662share certificate; stock (finance)
- 大喜过望x1 | Chapter Rank #5941overjoyed at unexpected good news (idiom)
- 继之x1 | Chapter Rank #5942
- 跌价x1 | Chapter Rank #5943to fall in price
- 伏x1 | Chapter Rank #5944to lean over; to fall (go down); to hide (in ambush); to conceal oneself; to lie low; hottest days of summer; to submit; to concede defeat; to overcome; to subdue; voltsurname Fu
- 全剧x1 | Chapter Rank #5945
- 导演x1 | Chapter Rank #5946to direct; director (film etc)
- 主演x1 | Chapter Rank #5947to play the leading role; to star; lead actor
- 换成x1 | Chapter Rank #5948to exchange (sth) for (sth else); to replace with; to convert into
- 民国时期x1 | Chapter Rank #5949
- 脾胃x1 | Chapter Rank #5950spleen and stomach (digestive organs in TCM); preferences; one's taste (e.g. in literature)
- 西洋式x1 | Chapter Rank #5951
- 姓名x1 | Chapter Rank #5952surname and given name; full name
- 改成x1 | Chapter Rank #5953to convert; to turn into (sth else); to adapt (a story to another medium)
- 中国式x1 | Chapter Rank #5954Chinese style; à la chinoise