Vocabulary: 第四章 夹缝中的成长
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 才貌双全x1 | Chapter Rank #1865talented and good-looking (idiom)
- 众星捧月x1 | Chapter Rank #1866lit. all the stars cup themselves around the moon (idiom, from Analects); fig. to view sb as core figure; to group around a revered leader; to revolve around sb
- 般x1 | Chapter Rank #1867sort; kind; class; way; mannerused in 般若[bo1 re3]see 般樂|般乐[pan2 le4]
- 追捧x1 | Chapter Rank #1868to exhibit great enthusiasm for sb or sth; to embrace; favor; acclaim; adulation; high demand
- 居然x1 | Chapter Rank #1869unexpectedly; to one's surprise; go so far as to
- 自叹不如x1 | Chapter Rank #1870to consider oneself as being not as good as the others
- 认为x2 | Chapter Rank #876to believe; to think; to consider; to feel
- 究其原因x1 | Chapter Rank #1871
- 多少x1 | Chapter Rank #1872how much?; how many?; (phone number, student ID etc) what number?number; amount; somewhat
- 留洋x1 | Chapter Rank #1873(old) to study abroad; (sports) to train abroad
- 背景x4 | Chapter Rank #378background; backdrop; context; (fig.) powerful backer
- 有关x2 | Chapter Rank #877to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning
- 北京x31 | Chapter Rank #34Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (short name 京[Jing1])
- 虽x4 | Chapter Rank #379although; even though
- 不乏x1 | Chapter Rank #1874there is no lack of
- 门x1 | Chapter Rank #1875gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4]); valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure; way to do sth; knack; method; approach; family; household; lineage; (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic); (bound form) class; category; division; phylum; classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc; (suffix) -gate (scandal)surname Men
- 巨x1 | Chapter Rank #1876very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic; (coll.) very; extremely
- 族x1 | Chapter Rank #1877race; nationality; ethnicity; clan; by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)
- 大家闺秀x1 | Chapter Rank #1878girl from a wealthy family; unmarried daughter of a noble house
- 凌叔华x1 | Chapter Rank #1879
- 袁x1 | Chapter Rank #1880long robe (old)surname Yuan
- 昌x1 | Chapter Rank #1881(bound form) prosperous; flourishingsurname Chang
- 英x1 | Chapter Rank #1882hero; outstanding; excellent; (literary) flower; blossomUnited Kingdom; British; England; English; abbr. for 英國|英国[Ying1 guo2]
- 陈x7 | Chapter Rank #184(bound form) to lay out; to exhibit; to display; (bound form) to narrate; to state; to explain; to tell; old; stalesurname Chen; Chen (c. 1045 – 479 BC), a Zhou dynasty state; Chen (557–589), one of the Southern Dynasties 南朝[Nan2 Chao2]
- 衡x1 | Chapter Rank #1883to weigh; weight; measure
- 哲x2 | Chapter Rank #878wise; a sage
- 冰心x1 | Chapter Rank #1884Bing Xin (1900-1999), female poet and children's writer
- 苏x53 | Chapter Rank #18used in 嚕囌|噜苏[lu1 su1]to revivesurname Su; abbr. for Soviet Union 蘇維埃|苏维埃[Su1 wei2 ai1] or 蘇聯|苏联[Su1 lian2]; abbr. for Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏[Jiang1 su1]; abbr. for Suzhou 蘇州|苏州[Su1 zhou1]Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil); place name; to revive; used as phonetic in transliteration
- 雪x13 | Chapter Rank #86surname Xuesnow; CL:場|场[chang2]; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)
- 等x2 | Chapter Rank #879to wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
- 她们x4 | Chapter Rank #380they; them (females)
- 成年x1 | Chapter Rank #1885to grow to adulthood; fully grown; adult; the whole year
- 大抵x1 | Chapter Rank #1886generally speaking; by and large; for the most part
- 留学x3 | Chapter Rank #523to study abroad
- 经历x5 | Chapter Rank #277to experience; to go through; experience (CL:段[duan4],次[ci4])
- 十六七岁x1 | Chapter Rank #1887
- 求取x1 | Chapter Rank #1888to seek after; to strive for
- 学历x1 | Chapter Rank #1889educational background; academic qualifications
- 只x7 | Chapter Rank #185only; merely; justgrain that has begun to ripenclassifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
- 远渡重洋x1 | Chapter Rank #1890to travel across the oceans
- 却是x3 | Chapter Rank #524nevertheless; actually; the fact is ...
- 少之又少x1 | Chapter Rank #1891very few; very little
- 果然x2 | Chapter Rank #880really; sure enough; as expected; if indeed
- 辜负x1 | Chapter Rank #1892to fail to live up (to expectations); unworthy (of trust); to let down; to betray (hopes); to disappoint
- 厚望x1 | Chapter Rank #1893great hopes; great expectations
- 几年x1 | Chapter Rank #1894a few years; several years; how many years?
- 美国x8 | Chapter Rank #150United States; USA; US
- 当地x1 | Chapter Rank #1895local
- 记者x1 | Chapter Rank #1896reporter; journalist; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 走遍x1 | Chapter Rank #1897