Vocabulary: 第十二章 北还
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 横批x1 | Chapter Rank #3896horizontal scroll (for inscription)
- 精x1 | Chapter Rank #3897essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic)
- 诚x1 | Chapter Rank #3898(bound form) sincere; authentic; (literary) really; truly
- 哈哈大笑x2 | Chapter Rank #1892to laugh heartily; to burst into loud laughter
- 真叫人x1 | Chapter Rank #3899
- 哭笑不得x1 | Chapter Rank #3900lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom); both funny and extremely embarrassing; between laughter and tears
- 老师x2 | Chapter Rank #1893teacher
- 满肚子x1 | Chapter Rank #3901
- 精辟x1 | Chapter Rank #3902clear and penetrating (e.g. analysis); incisive; insightful
- 归途x1 | Chapter Rank #3903the way back; one's journey home
- 博学x1 | Chapter Rank #3904learned; erudite
- 乐观x3 | Chapter Rank #1178optimistic; hopeful
- 感慨万分x1 | Chapter Rank #3905
- 听说x1 | Chapter Rank #3906to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking
- 烦恼x1 | Chapter Rank #3907to be worried; to be distressed; worries
- 诉苦x1 | Chapter Rank #3908to grumble; to complain; grievance
- 勾勒x1 | Chapter Rank #3909to draw the outline of; to outline; to sketch; to delineate contours of; to give a brief account of
- 场景x1 | Chapter Rank #3910scene; scenario; situation; setting
- 长沙x1 | Chapter Rank #3911see 長沙市|长沙市[Chang2 sha1 Shi4]; see 長沙縣|长沙县[Chang2 sha1 Xian4]
- 早年x2 | Chapter Rank #1894many years ago; in the past; in one's early years
- 文艺x1 | Chapter Rank #3912literature and art
- 清谈x1 | Chapter Rank #3913light intellectual conversation
- 活着x2 | Chapter Rank #1895alive
- 姿态x1 | Chapter Rank #3914attitude; posture; stance
- 血液x1 | Chapter Rank #3915blood; (fig.) lifeblood
- 基因x1 | Chapter Rank #3916gene (loanword)
- 城头x1 | Chapter Rank #3917
- 变幻x1 | Chapter Rank #3918to change irregularly; to fluctuate
- 什么样x4 | Chapter Rank #824what kind?; what sort?
- 报纸x2 | Chapter Rank #1896newspaper; newsprint; CL:份[fen4],期[qi1],張|张[zhang1]
- 主义x1 | Chapter Rank #3919-ism; ideology
- 荡涤x1 | Chapter Rank #3920to clean up
- 洗刷x1 | Chapter Rank #3921to wipe clean; to scrub; (fig.) to get rid of (a bad reputation, a misconception etc)
- 彻底改变x1 | Chapter Rank #3922
- 路x3 | Chapter Rank #1179road (CL:條|条[tiao2]); journey; route; line (bus etc); sort; kindsurname Lu
- 必定x1 | Chapter Rank #3923to be bound to; to be sure to
- 顺畅x1 | Chapter Rank #3924smooth and unhindered; fluent
- 金融x1 | Chapter Rank #3925banking; finance; financial
- 失败x4 | Chapter Rank #825to be defeated; to lose; to fail (e.g. experiments); failure; defeat; CL:次[ci4]
- 乌云密布x1 | Chapter Rank #3926
- 物价x2 | Chapter Rank #1897(commodity) prices; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 飞涨x1 | Chapter Rank #3927soaring inflation; rocketing prices
- 月薪x1 | Chapter Rank #3928monthly income (in kind)
- 几天x3 | Chapter Rank #1180several days
- 开销x1 | Chapter Rank #3929to pay (expenses); expenses; (old) to dismiss (an employee)
- 卖书x1 | Chapter Rank #3930
- 讽刺x1 | Chapter Rank #3931to satirize; to mock; irony; satire; sarcasm
- 书店x2 | Chapter Rank #1898bookstore; CL:家[jia1]
- 往x1 | Chapter Rank #3932to go (in a direction); to; towards; (of a train) bound for; past; previous
- 昔日x2 | Chapter Rank #1899former days; in the past