Vocabulary: 四、两岸圆缺香江潮
from 父亲南怀瑾
- 当即x4 | Chapter Rank #312at once; on the spot
- 决定x4 | Chapter Rank #313to decide; to determine; to make up one's mind; decision (CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4])
- 中止x1 | Chapter Rank #1098to cease; to suspend; to break off; to stop; to discontinue
- 迅速x2 | Chapter Rank #594rapid; speedy; fast
- 撤离x1 | Chapter Rank #1099to withdraw from; to evacuate
- 出x5 | Chapter Rank #253to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- 一辆x1 | Chapter Rank #1100
- 计程车x1 | Chapter Rank #1101(Tw) taxi; cab
- 后面x1 | Chapter Rank #1102the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards
- 车x2 | Chapter Rank #595car; vehicle; CL:輛|辆[liang4]; machine; to shape with a lathe; Kangxi radical 159war chariot (archaic); rook (in Chinese chess); rook (in chess)surname Che
- 跟踪x1 | Chapter Rank #1103to follow sb's tracks; to tail; to shadow; tracking
- 指挥x1 | Chapter Rank #1104to conduct; to command; to direct; conductor (of an orchestra); CL:個|个[ge4]
- 司机x1 | Chapter Rank #1105chauffeur; driver
- 东x1 | Chapter Rank #1106east; host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest); landlordsurname Dong
- 拐x2 | Chapter Rank #596to turn (a corner etc); to kidnap; to swindle; to misappropriate; seven (used as a substitute for 七[qi1])cane; walking stick; crutch; old man's staff
- 西x1 | Chapter Rank #1107westthe West; abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2]; Spanish
- 换x1 | Chapter Rank #1108to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute; to switch; to convert (currency)
- 三次x2 | Chapter Rank #597third; three times; (math.) degree three, cubic (equation)
- 才x8 | Chapter Rank #146ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only; (emphatic, esp. in contrast or correction) really; actually
- 把x17 | Chapter Rank #59handleto hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb})
- 尾巴x1 | Chapter Rank #1109tail; colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5]
- 甩掉x1 | Chapter Rank #1110to throw off; to abandon; to cast off; to get rid of; to dump
- 改革开放x1 | Chapter Rank #1111to reform and open to the outside world; refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980
- 随着x3 | Chapter Rank #403along with; in the wake of; following
- 逐渐x2 | Chapter Rank #598gradually
- 捐弃前嫌x1 | Chapter Rank #1112
- 自x3 | Chapter Rank #404(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
- 八十年代x1 | Chapter Rank #1113
- 初x2 | Chapter Rank #599(bound form) at first; initially; (bound form) first; early; (bound form) (in lunar calendar dates, before numerals 1–10) days 1 to 10 of a month, as in 初三[chu1 san1] "the third"
- 开始x4 | Chapter Rank #314to begin; beginning; to start; initial; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 通过x8 | Chapter Rank #147to pass through; to get through; to adopt (a resolution); to pass (legislation); to pass (a test); by means of; through; via
- 秘密x11 | Chapter Rank #102secret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret
- 通道x3 | Chapter Rank #405(communications) channel; thoroughfare; passage
- 进行x6 | Chapter Rank #201(of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway; (of people) to carry out; to conduct (an investigation or discussion etc); (of an army etc) to be on the march; to advance
- 联系x3 | Chapter Rank #406connection; contact; relation; to get in touch with; to integrate; to link; to touch
- 造化弄人x1 | Chapter Rank #1114
- 猝然x1 | Chapter Rank #1115suddenly; abruptly
- 好不容易x3 | Chapter Rank #407with great difficulty; very difficult
- 建立x6 | Chapter Rank #202to establish; to set up; to found
- 很快x1 | Chapter Rank #1116
- 中断x1 | Chapter Rank #1117to cut short; to break off; to discontinue; to interrupt
- 因此x7 | Chapter Rank #166thus; consequently; as a result
- 来x38 | Chapter Rank #30to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- 着急x1 | Chapter Rank #1118to worry; to feel anxious; to feel a sense of urgency; to be in a hurry; Taiwan pr. [zhao1ji2]
- 约见x1 | Chapter Rank #1119to arrange an interview; an appointment (with the foreign ambassador)
- 显然x1 | Chapter Rank #1120clearly; evidently; obviously
- 明确x1 | Chapter Rank #1121clear-cut; definite; explicit; to clarify; to specify; to make definite
- 除了x3 | Chapter Rank #408apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- 叙旧x1 | Chapter Rank #1122to reminisce; to talk about former times
- 重温x1 | Chapter Rank #1123to learn sth over again; to review; to brush up; to revive (memories, friendship etc)