Vocabulary: 第十二章 北还
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 弄不清x1 | Chapter Rank #3860unable to figure out
- 小姐x1 | Chapter Rank #3861young lady; miss; (slang) prostitute; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- 严x1 | Chapter Rank #3862tight (closely sealed); stern; strict; rigorous; severe; fathersurname Yan
- 特使x2 | Chapter Rank #1881special envoy; special ambassador
- 银南x1 | Chapter Rank #3863
- 原来x2 | Chapter Rank #1882original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out
- 逗x1 | Chapter Rank #3864to tease (playfully); to entice; (coll.) to joke; (coll.) funny; amusing; to stay; to sojourn
- 渊博x1 | Chapter Rank #3865erudite; profound; learned; extremely knowledgeable
- 不论x1 | Chapter Rank #3866whatever; no matter what (who, how etc); regardless of; not to discuss
- 独特x1 | Chapter Rank #3867unique; distinctive
- 见解x2 | Chapter Rank #1883opinion; view; understanding
- 服装x1 | Chapter Rank #3868dress; clothing; costume; clothes; CL:身[shen1]
- 花纹x3 | Chapter Rank #1176decorative design
- 盛行x1 | Chapter Rank #3869to be in vogue; to be popular; to be prevalent
- 草x2 | Chapter Rank #1884grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document); careless; rough; CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]
- 流传x1 | Chapter Rank #3870to spread; to circulate; to hand down
- 来源于x2 | Chapter Rank #1885to originate in
- 印度x2 | Chapter Rank #1886India
- 东征x1 | Chapter Rank #3871punitive expedition to the east
- 指着x3 | Chapter Rank #1177
- 几块x1 | Chapter Rank #3872
- 高价x1 | Chapter Rank #3873high price
- 买来x1 | Chapter Rank #3874
- 嫁衣x1 | Chapter Rank #3875
- 袖头x1 | Chapter Rank #3876
- 裤脚x2 | Chapter Rank #1887the bottom of a trouser leg
- 不禁x1 | Chapter Rank #3877can't help (doing sth); can't refrain from
- 扑哧x1 | Chapter Rank #3878
- 公x2 | Chapter Rank #1888public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)
- 川x1 | Chapter Rank #3879short name for Sichuan 四川[Si4 chuan1](bound form) river; creek; plain; an area of level country
- 滇x1 | Chapter Rank #3880short name for Yunnan 雲南|云南[Yun2 nan2]
- 趣闻x2 | Chapter Rank #1889funny news item; interesting anecdote
- 楚雄x1 | Chapter Rank #3881see 楚雄彝族自治州[Chu3 xiong2 Yi2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1]; see 楚雄市[Chu3 xiong2 Shi4]
- 上宾x1 | Chapter Rank #3882
- 吃x2 | Chapter Rank #1890to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- 喜酒x1 | Chapter Rank #3883wedding feast; liquor drunk at a wedding feast
- 房门x1 | Chapter Rank #3884door of a room
- 贴着x1 | Chapter Rank #3885
- 绝妙x1 | Chapter Rank #3886exquisite
- 对联x1 | Chapter Rank #3887rhyming couplet; pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway; CL:副[fu4],幅[fu2]
- 上联x1 | Chapter Rank #3888
- 互x2 | Chapter Rank #1891mutual
- 行x1 | Chapter Rank #3889used in 道行[dao4 heng2](bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit; (bound form) temporary; makeshift; (bound form) current; in circulation; (bound form) to do; to perform; capable; competent; all right; OK!; will do; behavior; conduct (Taiwan pr. [xing4]); (literary) about to; soon(bound form) row; line; (bound form) line of business; trade; profession; (bound form) commercial firm; (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age); (in data tables) row; (Tw) column; classifier for rows or lines
- 平等x4 | Chapter Rank #823equal; equality
- 礼x1 | Chapter Rank #3890surname Li; abbr. for 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4], Classic of Ritesgift; rite; ceremony; CL:份[fen4]; propriety; etiquette; courtesy
- 下联x1 | Chapter Rank #3891
- 齐心x1 | Chapter Rank #3892to be of one mind; to work as one
- 同唱x1 | Chapter Rank #3893
- 歌x1 | Chapter Rank #3894song (CL:首[shou3],支[zhi1]); (bound form) to sing
- 拖长x1 | Chapter Rank #3895to lengthen; to drag out