Vocabulary: 第二章 公无渡河
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 一手x1 | Chapter Rank #3809a skill; mastery of a trade; by oneself; without outside help
- 南开大学历史系x1 | Chapter Rank #3810
- 清华大学x1 | Chapter Rank #3811Tsinghua University, Beijing; National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- 系主任x1 | Chapter Rank #3812head of a (university) department; department chair
- 外交辞令x1 | Chapter Rank #3813
- 语言x1 | Chapter Rank #3814language; CL:門|门[men2],種|种[zhong3]
- 司马迁x2 | Chapter Rank #1611Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4], known as the father of Chinese historiography
- 张骞x2 | Chapter Rank #1612Zhang Qian (-114 BC), Han dynasty explorer of 2nd century BC
- 论x4 | Chapter Rank #609abbr. for 論語|论语[Lun2 yu3], The Analects (of Confucius)opinion; view; theory; doctrine; to discuss; to talk about; to regard; to consider; per; by the (kilometer, hour etc)
- 未必x1 | Chapter Rank #3815not necessarily; maybe not
- 答案x1 | Chapter Rank #3816answer; solution; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 答复x1 | Chapter Rank #3817to answer; to reply; Reply to: (in email header)
- 令人满意x1 | Chapter Rank #3818satisfying; satisfactory
- 巧妙x1 | Chapter Rank #3819ingenious; clever; ingenuity; artifice
- 含混x1 | Chapter Rank #3820vague; unclear; ambiguous
- 推回x1 | Chapter Rank #3821
- 心理x1 | Chapter Rank #3822psychology; mentality
- 除去x1 | Chapter Rank #3823to eliminate; to remove; except for; apart from
- 似是而非x1 | Chapter Rank #3824apparently right but actually wrong; specious (idiom)
- 更好x1 | Chapter Rank #3825
- 徘徊x1 | Chapter Rank #3826to pace back and forth; to dither; to hesitate; (of sales figures etc) to fluctuate
- 出人意料x1 | Chapter Rank #3827unexpected (idiom); surprising
- 找到x1 | Chapter Rank #3828to find
- 那条x1 | Chapter Rank #3829
- 中庸x1 | Chapter Rank #3830golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinarythe Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1]
- 忆x1 | Chapter Rank #3831to recollect; to remember; memory
- 江湖x4 | Chapter Rank #610rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- 白发x1 | Chapter Rank #3832white or gray hair; CL:根[gen1]
- 扁舟x1 | Chapter Rank #3833(literary) small boat; skiff
- 功成身退x1 | Chapter Rank #3834
- 然后x1 | Chapter Rank #3835then; after that; afterwards
- 著书立说x1 | Chapter Rank #3836to write a book advancing one's theory (idiom)
- 混迹x1 | Chapter Rank #3837mixed in as part of a community; hiding one's identity; occupying a position while not deserving it
- 称道x1 | Chapter Rank #3838to commend; to praise
- 遇x1 | Chapter Rank #3839surname Yu(bound form) to encounter; to happen upon; to meet unplanned; (bound form) to treat; to receive
- 知音x1 | Chapter Rank #3840intimate friend; soul mate
- 如沐春风x1 | Chapter Rank #3841
- 彼此x2 | Chapter Rank #1613each other; one another
- 欢喜x1 | Chapter Rank #3842happy; joyous; delighted; to like; to be fond of
- 不合时宜x1 | Chapter Rank #3843out of step with current thinking; outmoded; inappropriate for the occasion
- 众人皆知x1 | Chapter Rank #3844
- 绝顶聪明x1 | Chapter Rank #3845highly intelligent; brilliant
- 章士钊x3 | Chapter Rank #914Zhang Shizhao (1881-1973), revolutionary journalist in Shanghai, then established writer
- 长处x1 | Chapter Rank #3846good aspects; strong points
- 善于x1 | Chapter Rank #3847to be good at; to be adept at
- 万事x1 | Chapter Rank #3848all things
- 此君x2 | Chapter Rank #1614
- 无不x1 | Chapter Rank #3849none lacking; none missing; everything is there; everyone without exception
- 涣然x1 | Chapter Rank #3850as if melting
- 总而言之x1 | Chapter Rank #3851in short; in a word; in brief