Vocabulary: 弗兰肯斯坦
- 尸 shī: 尸 shi1: (literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies); (literary) to put a corpse on display (after execution)尸 shī: 尸 shi1: (bound form) corpse
- ash; dust; lime; gray; discouraged; dejected
- to jump out; fig. to appear suddenly
- far away; a distant location
- to translate; to interpret
- epilogue; afterword
- masterpiece; famous work
- representative work (of an author or artist)
- family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family
- radical; extreme; extremist
- maternal love
- to assert; to claim
- childhood
- a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- anonymous
- steamship; steamer; steamboat; CL:艘[sou1]
- 萨 Sà: 萨 Sa4: surname Sa萨 sà: 萨 sa4: used in 菩薩|菩萨[pu2 sa4]; used in transliteration
- 万 mò: 万 mo4: used in 万俟[Mo4 qi2]万 Wàn: 万 Wan4: surname Wan万 wàn: 万 wan4: ten thousand; a great number
- 号 háo: 号 hao2: (bound form) to wail; to howl号 hào: 号 hao4: (literary) to call out; to command; (bound form) bugle; trumpet; (bound form) signal; bugle call (e.g. 起床號|起床号[qi3 chuang2 hao4]); (bound form) mark; sign; to mark; to label; to assign a number; (bound form) name; appellation (e.g. 國號|国号[guo2 hao4], 年號|年号[nian2 hao4], 遼寧號|辽宁号[Liao2 ning2 Hao4]); (after a numeral) number designation (e.g. 237號房間|237号房间[er4 san1 qi1 hao4 fang2 jian1] "Room 237"); day of the month (e.g. 七號|七号[qi1 hao4] "the 7th"); (bound form) size; type; category (e.g. 五號電池|五号电池[wu3 hao4 dian4 chi2]); (TCM) to feel (the pulse) (used in 號脈|号脉[hao4 mai4]); classifier for numbered people or items
- to span; to stretch across; to travel across
- steam
- train; CL:列[lie4],節|节[jie2],班[ban1],趟[tang4]
- rail; railroad track; CL:根[gen1]
- Lancashire (English county)
- to spin (cotton or hemp etc); fine woven silk fabric
- 机 jī: 机 ji1: (bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft; (bound form) an opportunity; (bound form) crucial point; pivot; (bound form) quick-witted; flexible; (bound form) organic机 Jī: 机 Ji1: surname Ji
- lighting; illumination; to light up; to illuminate
- to spread extensively; to generalize; widespread; popular; universal; ubiquitous; pervasive
- in short; in a word; in brief
- (idiom) with great fanfare; on a grand scale
- to permeate
- 伽 gā: 伽 ga1: used in the transliteration of Greek letters伽 jiā: 伽 jia1: traditionally used as phonetic for "ga"伽 qié: 伽 qie2: used to transliterate Sanskrit "gha"
- to cut down; to fell; to dispatch an expedition against; to attack; to boast; Taiwan pr. [fa1]
- follower; adherent; following
- an electric current; (old) current intensity
- electrification; to convert to electrical power (esp. for railways, factories or other infrastructure)
- aggressive and grand (idiom); ambitious; pushy
- background; backdrop; context; (fig.) powerful backer
- historical background
- to ignore; to disregard