Vocabulary: 第一章 书香与革命
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 情节x2 | Chapter Rank #611circumstances; plot; storyline
- 峰回路转x1 | Chapter Rank #1516the mountain road twists around each new peak (idiom); (of a mountain road) twisting and turning; fig. an opportunity has come unexpectedly; things have taken a new turn
- 始于x1 | Chapter Rank #1517
- 走马上任x1 | Chapter Rank #1518(idiom) to take office; to assume a post
- 半年x2 | Chapter Rank #612half a year
- 昔日x2 | Chapter Rank #613former days; in the past
- 盗贼x1 | Chapter Rank #1519robber
- 收x1 | Chapter Rank #1520to receive; to accept; to collect; to put away; to restrain; to stop; in care of (used on address line after name)
- 敛迹x1 | Chapter Rank #1521to refrain; to give up evil (temporarily); to cover one's traces; to lie low; to retire (from view)
- 从此x1 | Chapter Rank #1522from now on; since then; henceforth
- 不再x1 | Chapter Rank #1523no more; no longer
- 入境x1 | Chapter Rank #1524to enter a country
- 曲折x1 | Chapter Rank #1525winding; (fig.) complicated
- 话x2 | Chapter Rank #614dialect; language; spoken words; speech; talk; words; conversation; what sb said; CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
- 本x1 | Chapter Rank #1526(bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this; (bound form) this; the current (year etc); (bound form) original; (bound form) inherent; originally; initially; capital; principal; classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
- 演义x1 | Chapter Rank #1527to dramatize historical events; novel or play on historical theme
- 只怕x1 | Chapter Rank #1528I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe; very likely
- 不会x1 | Chapter Rank #1529improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all
- 轻易x1 | Chapter Rank #1530easy; simple; rashly; offhandedly
- 写下x1 | Chapter Rank #1531to write down
- 结局x2 | Chapter Rank #615conclusion; ending
- 说书人x1 | Chapter Rank #1532
- 人情世故x1 | Chapter Rank #1533worldly wisdom; the ways of the world; to know how to get on in the world
- 龙x1 | Chapter Rank #1534surname LongChinese dragon; loong; (fig.) emperor; dragon; (bound form) dinosaur
- 压x1 | Chapter Rank #1535used in 壓根兒|压根儿[ya4 gen1 r5]; used in 壓馬路|压马路[ya4 ma3 lu4]; used in 壓板|压板[ya4 ban3]to press; to push down; to keep under (control); pressure
- 地头蛇x1 | Chapter Rank #1536local bully; tyrant; regional mafia boss
- 始终x5 | Chapter Rank #163from beginning to end; all along
- 合情合理x1 | Chapter Rank #1537(idiom) reasonable; fair
- 桥段x1 | Chapter Rank #1538(cinema, literature etc) scene; trope; plot device; (songwriting) bridge
- 短短x1 | Chapter Rank #1539
- 间x1 | Chapter Rank #1540between; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for roomsgap; to separate; to thin out (seedlings); to sow discontent
- 究竟x1 | Chapter Rank #1541to go to the bottom of a matter; after all; when all is said and done; (in an interrogative sentence) finally; outcome; result
- 缘故x1 | Chapter Rank #1542reason; cause
- 使得x2 | Chapter Rank #616usable; serviceable; feasible; workable; doable; to make; to cause; to bring about
- 初来乍到x1 | Chapter Rank #1543to be a newcomer; just off the boat
- 父母官x1 | Chapter Rank #1544
- 威慑力x1 | Chapter Rank #1545
- 悬念x1 | Chapter Rank #1546suspense in a movie, play etc; concern for sb's welfare
- 戛然而止x1 | Chapter Rank #1547with a grunting sound it stops (idiom); to come to an end spontaneously (esp. of sound)
- 史料x1 | Chapter Rank #1548historical material or data
- 可以x6 | Chapter Rank #132can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good
- 线索x1 | Chapter Rank #1549trail; clues; thread (of a story)
- 答案x1 | Chapter Rank #1550answer; solution; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 倒x1 | Chapter Rank #1551to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profitto invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
- 另x2 | Chapter Rank #617other; another; separate; separately
- 作为x2 | Chapter Rank #618one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be
- 补充x1 | Chapter Rank #1552to replenish; to supplement; to complement; additional; supplementary; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 来自x3 | Chapter Rank #336to come from (a place); From: (in email header)
- 外乡人x1 | Chapter Rank #1553a stranger; out-of-towner
- 宦游x1 | Chapter Rank #1554