Vocabulary: 第一章 书香与革命
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 忠心x1 | Chapter Rank #1302good faith; devotion; loyalty; dedication
- 进谏x1 | Chapter Rank #1303
- 无道x1 | Chapter Rank #1304tyrannical; brutal (regime)
- 商x1 | Chapter Rank #1305Shang 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)
- 纣王x1 | Chapter Rank #1306
- 妲x1 | Chapter Rank #1307female personal name (archaic)
- 剖x1 | Chapter Rank #1308to cut open; to analyze; Taiwan pr. [pou3]
- 心肝x1 | Chapter Rank #1309darling; (in negative sentences) heart; humanity
- 也许x2 | Chapter Rank #537perhaps; maybe
- 真是x1 | Chapter Rank #1310indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc)
- 有着x3 | Chapter Rank #311to have; to possess
- 七窍玲珑x1 | Chapter Rank #1311
- 人丁兴旺x1 | Chapter Rank #1312(idiom) to be a flourishing family with many descendants
- 常有x1 | Chapter Rank #1313
- 才子x1 | Chapter Rank #1314gifted scholar
- 大儒x1 | Chapter Rank #1315
- 达官显贵x1 | Chapter Rank #1316see 達官貴人|达官贵人[da2 guan1 gui4 ren2]
- 出没x1 | Chapter Rank #1317to come and go; to roam about (mostly unseen); (of a ghost) to haunt (a place); (of a criminal) to stalk (the streets); (of the sun) to rise and set
- 其间x2 | Chapter Rank #538in between; within that interval; in the meantime
- 但x10 | Chapter Rank #69but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just
- 家道中落x1 | Chapter Rank #1318to come down in the world (idiom); to suffer a reversal of fortune
- 沦为x1 | Chapter Rank #1319to sink down to; to be reduced to (sth inferior)
- 布衣x1 | Chapter Rank #1320plain cotton clothing; (literary) the common people
- 甚至x4 | Chapter Rank #215even; so much so that
- 脱离x1 | Chapter Rank #1321to separate oneself from; to break away from; diastasis (medicine); abscission; abjunction (botany)
- 读书人x2 | Chapter Rank #539scholar; intellectual
- 轨迹x2 | Chapter Rank #540locus; orbit; trajectory; track
- 盐x1 | Chapter Rank #1322salt; CL:粒[li4]
- 馆x4 | Chapter Rank #216building; shop; term for certain service establishments; embassy or consulate; schoolroom (old); CL:家[jia1]
- 谋x2 | Chapter Rank #541to plan; to seek; scheme
- 所得x1 | Chapter Rank #1323what one acquires; one's gains
- 微薄x1 | Chapter Rank #1324scanty; meager
- 入不敷出x1 | Chapter Rank #1325income does not cover expenditure; unable to make ends meet
- 为此x2 | Chapter Rank #542for this reason; with regards to this; in this respect; in order to do this; to this end
- 不得不x2 | Chapter Rank #543have no choice or option but to; cannot but; have to; can't help it; can't avoid
- 富户x2 | Chapter Rank #544rich family; large landlord
- 人家x3 | Chapter Rank #312other people; sb else; he, she or they; I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be; CL:戶|户[hu4],家[jia1]
- 任x6 | Chapter Rank #128to assign; to appoint; to take up a post; office; responsibility; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter (how, what etc); classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)surname Ren
- 教书先生x1 | Chapter Rank #1326
- 贴补家用x1 | Chapter Rank #1327
- 长x22 | Chapter Rank #29long; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte; (bound form) to be good at; (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4])chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop; to increase; to enhance
- 民x53 | Chapter Rank #8(bound form) the people; inhabitants of a countrysurname Min
- 寒微x2 | Chapter Rank #545of humble origin
- 时说x1 | Chapter Rank #1328
- 爹x1 | Chapter Rank #1329dad
- 别x2 | Chapter Rank #546to leave; to part (from); (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish; (dialect) to turn away; to turn aside; to avert (one's face, gaze etc); (bound form) other; another; different; don't ...!; to fasten with a pin or clip; to stick in; to insert (in order to hinder movement); (noun suffix) category (as in 性別|性别[xing4 bie2], 派別|派别[pai4 bie2])surname Bieto make sb change their ways, opinions etc
- 教x2 | Chapter Rank #547(bound form) to teach; to instruct; a religion; to cause (sb to do sth); to tell (sb to do sth)to teach; to instructsurname Jiao
- 读x5 | Chapter Rank #159comma; phrase marked by pauseto read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend (school); to study (a subject in school); to pronounce
- 入x10 | Chapter Rank #70to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時|入时[ru4 shi2]); abbr. for 入聲|入声[ru4 sheng1]; (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese 入 "iri")
- 不过x2 | Chapter Rank #548only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)