Vocabulary: 第十一章 南渡
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 胜任x1 | Chapter Rank #7385qualified; competent (professionally); to be up to a task
- 甘苦x1 | Chapter Rank #7386good times and hardships; joys and tribulations; for better or for worse
- 将心比心x1 | Chapter Rank #7387to put oneself in sb else's shoes (idiom)
- 体谅x2 | Chapter Rank #3510to empathize; to allow (for sth); to show understanding; to appreciate
- 体察x1 | Chapter Rank #7388to experience; to observe
- 具体而微x1 | Chapter Rank #7389miniature; scaled-down; forming a microcosm
- 显x1 | Chapter Rank #7390to make visible; to reveal; prominent; conspicuous; (prefix) phanero-
- 无以为继x1 | Chapter Rank #7391
- 上书x1 | Chapter Rank #7392to write a letter (to the authorities); to present a petition
- 顶头上司x1 | Chapter Rank #7393one's immediate superior
- 恳请x1 | Chapter Rank #7394to request earnestly
- 救济x2 | Chapter Rank #3511emergency relief; to help the needy with cash or goods
- 提到x3 | Chapter Rank #2213to mention; to raise (a subject); to refer to
- 骝x1 | Chapter Rank #7395bay horse with black mane
- 商x2 | Chapter Rank #3512Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC); surname Shangcommerce; merchant; dealer; to consult; 2nd note in pentatonic scale; quotient (as in 智商[zhi4 shang1], intelligence quotient)
- 胃病x2 | Chapter Rank #3513stomach trouble; stomach illness
- 气管炎x1 | Chapter Rank #7396bacterial tracheitis (inflammation of the windpipe, often caused by Staphylococcus aureus); henpecked (a pun on 妻子管得嚴|妻子管得严[qi1 zi5 guan3 de5 yan2] used in comic theater)
- 查x1 | Chapter Rank #7397surname Zhato research; to check; to investigate; to examine; to refer to; to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary)
- 梁任公x5 | Chapter Rank #1240
- 清寒x1 | Chapter Rank #7398poor; underprivileged; (of weather) crisp and clear
- 势x1 | Chapter Rank #7399power; influence; potential; momentum; tendency; trend; situation; conditions; outward appearance; sign; gesture; male genitals
- 不可终日x1 | Chapter Rank #7400to be unable to carry on even for a single day; to be in a desperate situation
- 理x2 | Chapter Rank #3514texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up
- 如下x1 | Chapter Rank #7401as follows
- 影响x2 | Chapter Rank #3515influence; effect; to influence; to affect (usually adversely); to disturb; CL:股[gu3]
- 启明x1 | Chapter Rank #7402Classical Chinese name for planet Venus in the east before dawn
- 作用x2 | Chapter Rank #3516to act on; to affect; action; function; activity; impact; result; effect; purpose; intent; (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 抑制作用[yi4 zhi4 zuo4 yong4], inhibition
- 清末x1 | Chapter Rank #7403the final years of the Qing dynasty 清朝[Qing1 chao2]; late Qing
- 大有可观x1 | Chapter Rank #7404
- 未尝x1 | Chapter Rank #7405not ever; not necessarily
- 有心x1 | Chapter Rank #7406to have a mind to; to intend to; deliberately; considerate
- 坏事x1 | Chapter Rank #7407bad thing; misdeed; to ruin things
- 护国x1 | Chapter Rank #7408
- 役x1 | Chapter Rank #7409forced labor; corvée; obligatory task; military service; to use as servant; to enserf; servant (old); war; campaign; battle
- 立功x1 | Chapter Rank #7410to render meritorious service (one the three imperishables 三不朽[san1 bu4 xiu3]); to make worthy contributions; to distinguish oneself
- 可谓x3 | Chapter Rank #2214it could even be said
- 次子x1 | Chapter Rank #7411second son
- 士x3 | Chapter Rank #2215member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor; honorific; soldier; noncommissioned officer; specialist workersurname Shi
- 家风x1 | Chapter Rank #7412
- 蒋先生x1 | Chapter Rank #7413
- 赙x1 | Chapter Rank #7414to contribute to funeral expenses
- 蔡松坡x1 | Chapter Rank #7415
- 蔡锷x1 | Chapter Rank #7416Cai E (1882–1916), military leader who was a key figure in the establishment the National Protection Army 護國軍|护国军[Hu4 guo2 jun1], which in 1916 fought the forces of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3], who had tried to reestablish the monarchy with himself as emperor
- 丧x1 | Chapter Rank #7417mourning; funeral; (old) corpseto lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc); to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc); to die; disappointed; discouraged
- 事体x1 | Chapter Rank #7418things; affairs; decorum
- 匹x1 | Chapter Rank #7419(bound form) matching; comparable to; (bound form) alone; single; one of a pair; classifier for horses, mules etc (Taiwan pr. [pi1]); classifier for cloth: bolt; horsepowerclassifier for cloth: bolt
- 彼x3 | Chapter Rank #2216that; those; (one) another
- 语x2 | Chapter Rank #3517(literary) to tell; to let (sb) knowdialect; language; speech
- 羡x1 | Chapter Rank #7420to envy
- 妒x1 | Chapter Rank #7421to envy (success, talent); jealous