Vocabulary: 第五章 奇异的月色
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 饮宴x1 | Chapter Rank #4774banquet; dinner; drinking party; feast
- 应酬x1 | Chapter Rank #4775to engage in social activities; to socialize; dinner party; banquet; social engagement
- 冷落x1 | Chapter Rank #4776desolate; unfrequented; to treat sb coldly; to snub; to cold shoulder
- 偶x1 | Chapter Rank #4777accidental; image; pair; mate
- 涉x2 | Chapter Rank #2611(literary) to wade across a body of water; (bound form) to experience; to undergo; to be involved; to concern
- 花丛x1 | Chapter Rank #4778cluster of flowers; inflorescence; flowering shrub
- 心中x11 | Chapter Rank #460central point; in one's thoughts; in one's heart
- 妓x1 | Chapter Rank #4779prostitute
- 轮盘x1 | Chapter Rank #4780roulette; wheel
- 赌局x1 | Chapter Rank #4781game of chance; gambling party; gambling joint
- 长久x2 | Chapter Rank #2612long-time; long-term; lasting; enduring; permanent; for a long time
- 坐定x1 | Chapter Rank #4782to be seated
- 下注x2 | Chapter Rank #2613to pour; to pour down (of rain); to lay a bet
- 所知x1 | Chapter Rank #4783known; what one knows
- 当世无双x1 | Chapter Rank #4784unequalled in his time
- 温文x2 | Chapter Rank #2614genteel
- 大度x1 | Chapter Rank #4785magnanimous; generous (in spirit)
- 理解力x1 | Chapter Rank #4786ability to grasp ideas; understanding
- 同情心x1 | Chapter Rank #4787
- 不和蔼x1 | Chapter Rank #4788
- 优容x2 | Chapter Rank #2615
- 情感x17 | Chapter Rank #281feeling; emotion; to move (emotionally)
- 表同情x1 | Chapter Rank #4789
- 温柔x5 | Chapter Rank #1067gentle and soft; tender; sweet (commonly used to describe a girl or woman)
- 诚挚x3 | Chapter Rank #1801sincere; cordial
- 认命x2 | Chapter Rank #2616to accept misfortunes as decreed by fate; to be resigned to sth
- 发妻x2 | Chapter Rank #2617first wife
- 偏偏x2 | Chapter Rank #2618(indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened; (indicating that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly; contrarily; against reason; (indicating that sb or a group is singled out) precisely; only; of all people
- 忍受x1 | Chapter Rank #4790to bear; to endure
- 般的x8 | Chapter Rank #636
- 单纯x5 | Chapter Rank #1068simple; pure; unsophisticated; merely; purely
- 天真x6 | Chapter Rank #889naive; innocent; artless
- 身上x8 | Chapter Rank #637on the body; at hand; among
- 残忍x1 | Chapter Rank #4791cruel; merciless; ruthless
- 怀孕x1 | Chapter Rank #4792pregnant; to have conceived; gestation; pregnancy
- 反应x2 | Chapter Rank #2619to react; to respond; reaction; response; reply; chemical reaction; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 劝x6 | Chapter Rank #890to advise; to urge; to try to persuade; to exhort; to console; to soothe
- 打x5 | Chapter Rank #1069(loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")
- 戏剧性x2 | Chapter Rank #2620dramatic
- 一幕x3 | Chapter Rank #1802
- 女性朋友x1 | Chapter Rank #4793
- 来访x2 | Chapter Rank #2621to pay a visit
- 三从四德x2 | Chapter Rank #2622Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德[de2], physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功
- 意会x1 | Chapter Rank #4794to sense; to grasp intuitively
- 见面x5 | Chapter Rank #1070to meet; to see each other; CL:次[ci4]
- 男人x2 | Chapter Rank #2623a man; a male; men; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 纳妾x1 | Chapter Rank #4795to take a concubine
- 正常x3 | Chapter Rank #1803normal; regular
- 原配x3 | Chapter Rank #1804first wife
- 夫人x8 | Chapter Rank #638lady; madam; Mrs.; CL:位[wei4]