Vocabulary: 第一章 书香与革命
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 表姐x1 | Chapter Rank #1268older female cousin through a female relative
- 王x3 | Chapter Rank #306surname Wangking or monarch; best or strongest of its type; grand; great(literary) (of a monarch) to reign over (a kingdom)
- 稚x1 | Chapter Rank #1269infantile; young
- 姚x1 | Chapter Rank #1270surname Yaohandsome; good-looking
- 回忆x6 | Chapter Rank #126to recall; memories; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 少女时期x1 | Chapter Rank #1271
- 明眸x1 | Chapter Rank #1272
- 善睐x1 | Chapter Rank #1273
- 形容x1 | Chapter Rank #1274to describe; (literary) countenance; appearance
- 娟秀x1 | Chapter Rank #1275beautiful; graceful
- 似x3 | Chapter Rank #307used in 似的[shi4 de5]to seem; to appear; to resemble; similar; -like; pseudo-; (more) than
- 及至x1 | Chapter Rank #1276by the time that
- 困顿x2 | Chapter Rank #534fatigued; exhausted; poverty-stricken; in straitened circumstances
- 拖x1 | Chapter Rank #1277to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on
- 病体x1 | Chapter Rank #1278
- 日渐x1 | Chapter Rank #1279to progress (or increase, change etc) day by day; more (or better etc) with each passing day
- 面容x1 | Chapter Rank #1280appearance; facial features
- 竟然x2 | Chapter Rank #535unexpectedly; to one's surprise; in spite of everything; in that crazy way; actually; to go as far as to
- 如出一辙x1 | Chapter Rank #1281to be precisely the same; to be no different
- 遗传x4 | Chapter Rank #212heredity; to inherit (a trait); to pass on (to one's offspring)
- 如此x4 | Chapter Rank #213like this; so; such
- 神秘x1 | Chapter Rank #1282mysterious; mystery
- 飘忽x1 | Chapter Rank #1283swiftly moving; fleet; to sway
- 静默x1 | Chapter Rank #1284silent; still; quiet; to mourn in silence; to observe silence; (neologism, attested by 2022) to stay at home during a pandemic
- 谜底x1 | Chapter Rank #1285answer to a riddle
- 身上x4 | Chapter Rank #214on the body; at hand; among
- 按图索骥x2 | Chapter Rank #536lit. looking for a fine horse using only a picture (idiom); fig. to do things along rigid, conventional lines; to try and find sth with the help of a clue
- 品质x1 | Chapter Rank #1286character; intrinsic quality (of a person); quality (of a product or service, or as in "quality of life", "air quality" etc)
- 转折x1 | Chapter Rank #1287shift in the trend of events; turnaround; plot shift in a book; turn in the conversation
- 那些x1 | Chapter Rank #1288those
- 选择x3 | Chapter Rank #308to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative
- 总会x1 | Chapter Rank #1289
- 得到x3 | Chapter Rank #309to get; to obtain; to receive
- 恍然大悟x1 | Chapter Rank #1290(idiom) to suddenly realize; to suddenly see the light
- 懂得x1 | Chapter Rank #1291to understand; to know; to comprehend
- 理解x1 | Chapter Rank #1292to comprehend; to understand
- 伯x1 | Chapter Rank #1293one hundred (old)father's elder brother; senior; paternal elder uncle; eldest of brothers; respectful form of address; Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- 颖x1 | Chapter Rank #1294head of grain; husk; tip; point; clever; gifted; outstanding
- 福建x6 | Chapter Rank #127see 福建省[Fu2 jian4 Sheng3]
- 闽侯x7 | Chapter Rank #107see 閩侯縣|闽侯县[Min3 hou4 Xian4]
- 今x1 | Chapter Rank #1295now; the present time; current; contemporary; this (day, year etc)
- 福州x7 | Chapter Rank #108see 福州市[Fu2 zhou1 Shi4]
- 氏x36 | Chapter Rank #17(bound form) family name; surname (as in 王氏[Wang2 shi4] "the Wang clan"); (bound form) maiden name; née (as in 李王氏[Li3 Wang2 shi4] "Mrs. Li, née Wang"); (bound form) honorific suffix added to the surname or full name of a notable person, esp. historical or scholarly figuresused in 月氏[Yue4 zhi1]; used in 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1]
- 原本x1 | Chapter Rank #1296originally; the original; original copy; original version
- 显族x1 | Chapter Rank #1297
- 相传x1 | Chapter Rank #1298to pass on; to hand down; tradition has it that ...; according to legend
- 源头x1 | Chapter Rank #1299source; origin; fountainhead
- 殷商x1 | Chapter Rank #1300final name of the Shang dynasty after their move to Yinxu 殷墟 in modern Henan province
- 忠臣x1 | Chapter Rank #1301faithful official
- 干x3 | Chapter Rank #310dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shouldersurname Gan(bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with; one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1]; (archaic) shieldtree trunk; main part of sth; to manage; to work; to do; capable; cadre; to kill (slang); to fuck (vulgar); (coll.) pissed off; annoyed