Vocabulary: 第一章 书香与革命
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 进士x3 | Chapter Rank #316successful candidate in the highest imperial civil service examination; palace graduate
- 康有为x1 | Chapter Rank #1368Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
- 告别x1 | Chapter Rank #1369to leave; to part from; to bid farewell to; to say goodbye to
- 先x2 | Chapter Rank #556beforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now; (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
- 翰林院x2 | Chapter Rank #557Imperial Hanlin Academy, lasting from Tang dynasty until 1911
- 编修x1 | Chapter Rank #1370to compile and edit
- 京官x1 | Chapter Rank #1371
- 多于x1 | Chapter Rank #1372more than; greater than
- 应酬x1 | Chapter Rank #1373to engage in social activities; to socialize; dinner party; banquet; social engagement
- 开销x1 | Chapter Rank #1374to pay (expenses); expenses; (old) to dismiss (an employee)
- 不菲x1 | Chapter Rank #1375considerable (cost etc); bountiful (crop etc); high (social status etc)
- 林家x19 | Chapter Rank #32
- 家底x1 | Chapter Rank #1376family property; patrimony
- 并x10 | Chapter Rank #71and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to mergeto combine; to amalgamateshort name for Taiyuan 太原[Tai4 yuan2]
- 丰厚x1 | Chapter Rank #1377generous; ample
- 于是x2 | Chapter Rank #558thereupon; as a result; consequently; thus; hence
- 故意x1 | Chapter Rank #1378deliberately; on purpose
- 年度x1 | Chapter Rank #1379year (e.g. school year, fiscal year); annual
- 甄别x1 | Chapter Rank #1380to screen; to discriminate; to reexamine a case; screening (of applicants etc)
- 考试x1 | Chapter Rank #1381to take an exam; exam; CL:次[ci4]
- 写错x1 | Chapter Rank #1382
- 官场x3 | Chapter Rank #317officialdom; bureaucracy
- 不成文x1 | Chapter Rank #1383unwritten (rule)
- 规矩x1 | Chapter Rank #1384lit. compass and set square; fig. established standard; rule; customs; practices; fig. upright and honest; well-behaved
- 考官x2 | Chapter Rank #559an examiner (for tests, interviews etc); (old) imperial examination official
- 知x4 | Chapter Rank #219to know; to be aware
- 此人x1 | Chapter Rank #1385
- 意图x1 | Chapter Rank #1386intent; intention; to intend
- 离开x1 | Chapter Rank #1387to depart; to leave
- 京城x1 | Chapter Rank #1388capital of a country
- 经过x1 | Chapter Rank #1389to pass; to go through; process; course; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 一番x2 | Chapter Rank #560
- 上下x1 | Chapter Rank #1390the top and bottom of sth; the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom; to go up and down; before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context"); (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so; (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates"); all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation"); relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")
- 打点x1 | Chapter Rank #1391to bribe; to get (luggage) ready; to put in order; to organize things; (baseball) RBI (run batted in)
- 终于x2 | Chapter Rank #561at last; in the end; finally; eventually
- 以外x2 | Chapter Rank #562apart from; other than; except for; external; outside of; on the other side of; beyond
- 放x2 | Chapter Rank #563to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks)
- 官x2 | Chapter Rank #564surname Guangovernment official; governmental; official; public; organ of the body; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 封x1 | Chapter Rank #1392surname Fengto confer; to grant; to bestow a title; to seal; classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters
- 浙江x6 | Chapter Rank #129see 浙江省[Zhe4 jiang1 Sheng3]
- 海宁x1 | Chapter Rank #1393see 海寧市|海宁市[Hai3 ning2 Shi4]
- 知县x3 | Chapter Rank #318county head magistrate (old)
- 随即x1 | Chapter Rank #1394immediately; presently; following which
- 携眷x2 | Chapter Rank #565accompanied by one's dependents; encumbered by wife and children
- 南下x2 | Chapter Rank #566to go down south
- 把x4 | Chapter Rank #220handleto hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb})
- 脉x3 | Chapter Rank #319arteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)see 脈脈|脉脉[mo4 mo4]
- 灵气x1 | Chapter Rank #1395spiritual influence (of mountains etc); cleverness; ingeniousness
- 转而x1 | Chapter Rank #1396to turn to (sth else); to switch to
- 带到x2 | Chapter Rank #567