Vocabulary: 第六章 梁林因缘
from 风雨琳琅：林徽因和她的时代
- 琐碎x1 | Chapter Rank #3489trifling; trivial; tedious; inconsequential
- 用光x1 | Chapter Rank #3490out of (supply); spent; exhausted (used up); depleted
- 柴米油盐x1 | Chapter Rank #3491lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom); fig. life's daily necessities
- 萌芽x1 | Chapter Rank #3492(of a seed) to germinate; (of a plant) to sprout; to bud; sprout; bud; (also used figuratively)
- 绽放x1 | Chapter Rank #3493to blossom
- 贤良x1 | Chapter Rank #3494(of a man) able and virtuous
- 淑德x1 | Chapter Rank #3495
- 逢x2 | Chapter Rank #1305to meet by chance; to come across; (of a calendar event) to come along; (of an event) to fall on (a particular day); to fawn upon
- 乱世x1 | Chapter Rank #3496the world in chaos; troubled times; (in Buddhism) the mortal world
- 不让须眉x1 | Chapter Rank #3497(idiom) to compare favorably with men in terms of ability, bravery etc; to be a match for men; lit. not conceding to men (beard and eyebrows)
- 临危不惧x1 | Chapter Rank #3498
- 果决x1 | Chapter Rank #3499firm; unwavering
- 慈禧x1 | Chapter Rank #3500Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (reigned 1861-1908)
- 两广总督x1 | Chapter Rank #3501Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi
- 捉拿x1 | Chapter Rank #3502to arrest; to catch a criminal
- 及其x1 | Chapter Rank #3503(conjunction linking two nouns) and its ...; and their ...; and his ...; and her ...
- 家人x1 | Chapter Rank #3504family member; (old) servant
- 只身x1 | Chapter Rank #3505alone; by oneself
- 亡命x2 | Chapter Rank #1306to flee; to go into exile (from prison)
- 东瀛x1 | Chapter Rank #3506(literary) East China Sea; (literary) Japan
- 全家x2 | Chapter Rank #1307whole familyFamilyMart (convenience store chain)
- 支柱x1 | Chapter Rank #3507mainstay; pillar; prop; backbone
- 前来x1 | Chapter Rank #3508to come (formal); before; previously
- 抄家x1 | Chapter Rank #3509to search a house and confiscate possessions
- 清兵x1 | Chapter Rank #3510Qing troops; Manchu soldiers
- 镇定自若x1 | Chapter Rank #3511
- 应答如流x1 | Chapter Rank #3512
- 漫长x1 | Chapter Rank #3513very long; endless
- 岁月x2 | Chapter Rank #1308years; time
- 弱质x1 | Chapter Rank #3514
- 女子x4 | Chapter Rank #503woman; female
- 奉养x1 | Chapter Rank #3515to look after (elderly parents); Taiwan pr. [feng4yang4]
- 抚养x1 | Chapter Rank #3516to foster; to bring up; to raise
- 幼女x1 | Chapter Rank #3517young girl
- 担起x1 | Chapter Rank #3518
- 好不容易x1 | Chapter Rank #3519with great difficulty; very difficult
- 结束x1 | Chapter Rank #3520termination; to finish; to end; to conclude; to close
- 护国x1 | Chapter Rank #3521
- 役x1 | Chapter Rank #3522forced labor; corvée; obligatory task; military service; to use as servant; to enserf; servant (old); war; campaign; battle
- 出逃x1 | Chapter Rank #3523to run away; to flee (the country)
- 蔡锷x1 | Chapter Rank #3524Cai E (1882–1916), military leader who was a key figure in the establishment the National Protection Army 護國軍|护国军[Hu4 guo2 jun1], which in 1916 fought the forces of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3], who had tried to reestablish the monarchy with himself as emperor
- 起兵x1 | Chapter Rank #3525
- 袁x1 | Chapter Rank #3526long robe (old)surname Yuan
- 约定x2 | Chapter Rank #1309to agree on sth (after discussion); to conclude a bargain; to arrange; to promise; to stipulate; to make an appointment; stipulated (time, amount, quality etc); an arrangement; a deal; appointment; undertaking; commitment; understanding; engagement; stipulation
- 不济x1 | Chapter Rank #3527(coll.) no good; of no use
- 吾侪x2 | Chapter Rank #1310
- 决不x2 | Chapter Rank #1311not at all; simply (can) not
- 济x1 | Chapter Rank #3528used in place names associated with the Ji River 濟水|济水[Ji3 Shui3]; surname Jiused in 濟濟|济济[ji3 ji3]to cross a river; to aid or relieve; to be of help
- 引退x1 | Chapter Rank #3529to retire from office; to resign
- 离京x1 | Chapter Rank #3530