Vocabulary: 第二章 公无渡河
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 成x10 | Chapter Rank #156surname Cheng; short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth
- 行之有效x1 | Chapter Rank #2092to be effective (idiom)
- 实行x2 | Chapter Rank #1114to implement; to carry out; to put into practice
- 政局x3 | Chapter Rank #704political situation
- 诡x2 | Chapter Rank #1115(bound form) sly; crafty; (literary) weird; bizarre; (literary) contradictory; inconsistent
- 变x6 | Chapter Rank #323to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion
- 抱负x7 | Chapter Rank #268aspiration; ambition
- 要x13 | Chapter Rank #113(bound form) to demand; to coerceto want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) important
- 谈何容易x2 | Chapter Rank #1116easier said than done (idiom)
- 较之x1 | Chapter Rank #2093
- 辈x4 | Chapter Rank #518lifetime; generation; group of people; class; classifier for generations; (literary) classifier for people
- 后者x2 | Chapter Rank #1117the latter
- 牺牲x1 | Chapter Rank #2094to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice
- 选择x2 | Chapter Rank #1118to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative
- 的确x1 | Chapter Rank #2095really; indeed
- 需要x2 | Chapter Rank #1119to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs
- 勇气x2 | Chapter Rank #1120courage
- 死者x1 | Chapter Rank #2096the dead; the deceased
- 矣x17 | Chapter Rank #86classical final particle, similar to modern 了[le5]
- 留有x1 | Chapter Rank #2097to remain in existence; to retain
- 贯x1 | Chapter Rank #2098to pierce through; to pass through; to be stringed together; string of 1000 cash
- 人间x2 | Chapter Rank #1121the human world; the earth
- 浮沉x1 | Chapter Rank #2099ups and downs (of life etc); to drift along; to sink and emerge
- 宦海x5 | Chapter Rank #403officialdom; bureaucracy
- 心力交瘁x1 | Chapter Rank #2100to be both mentally and physically exhausted (idiom)
- 未竟x1 | Chapter Rank #2101unfinished; incomplete
- 心灰意冷x2 | Chapter Rank #1122discouraged; downhearted
- 为了x4 | Chapter Rank #519for; for the purpose of; in order to
- 活着x1 | Chapter Rank #2102alive
- 活x1 | Chapter Rank #2103to live; alive; living; work; workmanship
- 容易x2 | Chapter Rank #1123easy; straightforward; likely; liable to; apt to
- 卿本佳人x2 | Chapter Rank #1124
- 虽x7 | Chapter Rank #269although; even though
- 决定x4 | Chapter Rank #520to decide; to determine; to make up one's mind; decision (CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4])
- 毕生x3 | Chapter Rank #705one's whole life; throughout one's life
- 志业x1 | Chapter Rank #2104
- 身上x5 | Chapter Rank #404on the body; at hand; among
- 政客x5 | Chapter Rank #405politician
- 圆熟x1 | Chapter Rank #2105
- 世故x1 | Chapter Rank #2106the ways of the worldsophisticated; worldly-wise
- 老x7 | Chapter Rank #270prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people); venerable (person); experienced; of long standing; always; all the time; of the past; very; outdated; (of meat etc) tough
- 相反x1 | Chapter Rank #2107opposite; contrary
- 僚友x1 | Chapter Rank #2108
- 侪x1 | Chapter Rank #2109a class; a company; companion
- 间x7 | Chapter Rank #271gap; to separate; to thin out (seedlings); to sow discontentbetween; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for rooms
- 留下x4 | Chapter Rank #521to leave behind; to stay behind; to remain; to keep; not to let (sb) go
- 白云x1 | Chapter Rank #2110see 白雲區|白云区[Bai2 yun2 Qu1]white cloud
- 岫x1 | Chapter Rank #2111cave; mountain peak
- 丰神x1 | Chapter Rank #2112
- 雅淡x1 | Chapter Rank #2113simple and elegant