Vocabulary: 第十一章 南渡
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 点点x1 | Chapter Rank #7756Diandian (Chinese microblogging and social networking website)point; speck
- 浮萍x1 | Chapter Rank #7757duckweed
- 做主x1 | Chapter Rank #7758
- 长丰x1 | Chapter Rank #7759see 長豐縣|长丰县[Chang2 feng1 Xian4]
- 轮x3 | Chapter Rank #2237wheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate; classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn
- 下流x1 | Chapter Rank #7760lower course of a river; low-class; mean and lowly; vulgar; obscene
- 缓缓x1 | Chapter Rank #7761slowly; unhurriedly; little by little
- 踏x1 | Chapter Rank #7762see 踏實|踏实[ta1 shi5]to tread; to stamp; to step on; to press a pedal; to investigate on the spot
- 趸船x1 | Chapter Rank #7763barge; pontoon; landing stage
- 身影x1 | Chapter Rank #7764silhouette; figure
- 给出x1 | Chapter Rank #7765
- 许诺x1 | Chapter Rank #7766to promise; to pledge
- 黯然x1 | Chapter Rank #7767dim; sad
- 长叹x1 | Chapter Rank #7768long sigh; deep sigh
- 更为x1 | Chapter Rank #7769even more
- 系念x1 | Chapter Rank #7770
- 数年x4 | Chapter Rank #1606several years; many years
- 系主任x1 | Chapter Rank #7771head of a (university) department; department chair
- 务x1 | Chapter Rank #7772affair; business; matter; to be engaged in; to attend to; by all means
- 人事x2 | Chapter Rank #3600personnel; human resources; human affairs; ways of the world; (euphemism) sexuality; the facts of life
- 脉络x1 | Chapter Rank #7773arteries and veins; network of blood vessels; vascular system (of a plant or animal); (fig.) fabric (i.e. underlying structure, as in "social fabric"); overall context
- 埋x1 | Chapter Rank #7774used in 埋怨[man2 yuan4]to bury
- 伏笔x1 | Chapter Rank #7775foreshadowing (literary device); foretaste of material to come (in an essay or story)
- 紧x1 | Chapter Rank #7776tight; strict; close at hand; near; urgent; tense; hard up; short of money; to tighten
- 脚步x1 | Chapter Rank #7777footstep; step
- 走遍x2 | Chapter Rank #3601
- 交友x1 | Chapter Rank #7778to make friends
- 探访x1 | Chapter Rank #7779to seek by inquiry or search; to call on; to visit
- 利用x2 | Chapter Rank #3602to exploit; to make use of; to use; to take advantage of; to utilize
- 假x1 | Chapter Rank #7780used in 假掰[gei1 bai1]fake; false; artificial; to borrow; if; supposevacationto borrow
- 穿山越岭x1 | Chapter Rank #7781
- 其他人x1 | Chapter Rank #7782
- 初来乍到x1 | Chapter Rank #7783to be a newcomer; just off the boat
- 敏感x1 | Chapter Rank #7784sensitive; susceptible
- 变化无常x1 | Chapter Rank #7785(idiom) changeable; fickle
- 理完x1 | Chapter Rank #7786
- 无时无刻x1 | Chapter Rank #7787(idiom) (when followed by 不[bu4]) at no time; never (Note: 無時無刻不|无时无刻不[wu2 shi2 wu2 ke4 bu4] therefore means "at no time not ...", i.e. "at all times".); (when not followed by 不[bu4]) at all times; always
- 增减x1 | Chapter Rank #7788to add or subtract; to increase or decrease; to go up or go down
- 状态x4 | Chapter Rank #1607condition; state; state of affairs
- 处在x3 | Chapter Rank #2238to be situated at; to find oneself at
- 遁入x1 | Chapter Rank #7789
- 忧郁x1 | Chapter Rank #7790sullen; depressed; melancholy; dejected
- 摆脱x1 | Chapter Rank #7791to break away from; to cast off (old ideas etc); to get rid of; to break away (from); to break out (of); to free oneself from; to extricate oneself
- 愉悦x1 | Chapter Rank #7792joyful; cheerful; delighted; joy; delight
- 细碎x1 | Chapter Rank #7793fragments; bits and pieces
- 铺垫x1 | Chapter Rank #7794to spread out bedding; bedcover
- 显然x2 | Chapter Rank #3603clearly; evidently; obviously
- 热泪盈眶x1 | Chapter Rank #7795eyes brimming with tears of excitement (idiom); extremely moved
- 局外人x1 | Chapter Rank #7796
- 爱莫能助x1 | Chapter Rank #7797unable to help however much one would like to (idiom); Although we sympathize, there is no way to help you.; My hands are tied.