Vocabulary: 第十章 熟铁与黄金
from 南方与北方
- 等候x1 | Chapter Rank #465to wait; to wait for
- 狄克逊x2 | Chapter Rank #231
- 缓慢x2 | Chapter Rank #232slow; unhurried; sluggish
- 地x17 | Chapter Rank #26earth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]-ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- 走来x1 | Chapter Rank #466
- 开门x1 | Chapter Rank #467(lit. and fig.) to open a door; to open for business
- 时x7 | Chapter Rank #70o'clock; time; when; hour; season; periodsurname Shi
- 教堂x1 | Chapter Rank #468church; chapel; CL:座[zuo4],所[suo3],間|间[jian1]
- 大钟x1 | Chapter Rank #469
- 正x1 | Chapter Rank #470straight; upright; proper; main; principal; to correct; to rectify; exactly; just (at that time); right (in that place); (math.) positivefirst month of the lunar year
- 打着x1 | Chapter Rank #471
- 七点x1 | Chapter Rank #472
- 半x4 | Chapter Rank #128half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
- 遇到x2 | Chapter Rank #233to meet; to run into; to come across
- 不得不x7 | Chapter Rank #71have no choice or option but to; cannot but; have to; can't help it; can't avoid
- 贬低x1 | Chapter Rank #473to belittle; to disparage; to play down; to demean; to degrade; to devalue
- 身份x2 | Chapter Rank #234identity; aspect of one's identity (e.g. mayor, father, permanent resident); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as ..." 以[yi3] + ... + 的身份[de5 shen1 fen4]); status (social, legal etc); position; rank
- 前来x2 | Chapter Rank #235to come (formal); before; previously
- 应x1 | Chapter Rank #474to agree (to do sth); should; ought to; must; (legal) shallto answer; to respond; to comply with; to deal or cope withsurname Ying; Taiwan pr. [Ying4]
- 门x1 | Chapter Rank #475surname Mengate; 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)
- 总x5 | Chapter Rank #100(bound form) general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 總經理|总经理[zong3 jing1 li3] or 總編|总编[zong3 bian1] etc
- 加倍x1 | Chapter Rank #476to double; to redouble
- 迟缓x1 | Chapter Rank #477slow; sluggish
- 给x10 | Chapter Rank #47to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier)to supply; to provide
- 领进x1 | Chapter Rank #478
- 那x20 | Chapter Rank #22(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nei4]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case)(archaic) many; beautiful; howsurname Nuosurname Na
- 间x5 | Chapter Rank #101between; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for roomsgap; to separate; to thin out (seedlings); to sow discontent
- 小x4 | Chapter Rank #129small; tiny; few; young
- 客厅x2 | Chapter Rank #236living room; sitting room; CL:間|间[jian1]
- 黑x16 | Chapter Rank #29short name for Heilongjiang 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]black; dark; sinister; secret; shady; illegal; to hide (sth) away; to vilify; (loanword) to hack (computing)
- 尔x15 | Chapter Rank #31thus; so; like that; you; thou
- 亲切x1 | Chapter Rank #479amiable; cordial; close and dear; familiar
- 欢迎x2 | Chapter Rank #237to welcome; welcome
- 领x1 | Chapter Rank #480neck; collar; to lead; to receive; classifier for clothes, mats, screens etc
- 上楼去x1 | Chapter Rank #481
- 会见x1 | Chapter Rank #482to meet with (sb who is paying a visit); CL:次[ci4]
- 自己的x10 | Chapter Rank #48
- 妻子x1 | Chapter Rank #483wife and childrenwife
- 她x49 | Chapter Rank #5she
- 苍白x2 | Chapter Rank #238pale; wan
- 脸x6 | Chapter Rank #84face; CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]
- 和x26 | Chapter Rank #14to mix (ingredients) together; to blend; classifier for rinses of clothes; classifier for boilings of medicinal herbssurname He(joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]); (math.) sum; to make peace; (sports) to draw; to tie; (bound form) harmonious; (bound form) Japan; Japaneseto compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence; to join in the singing; to chime in with othersto complete a set in mahjong or playing cardsto combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water; Taiwan pr. [huo4]
- 用x5 | Chapter Rank #102to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions); usefulness; utility; (bound form) expense; outlay; (courteous) to eat; to drink; (literary) hence; therefore
- 披肩x1 | Chapter Rank #484cape; shawl; (of long hair) to trail over one's shoulders
- 紧x2 | Chapter Rank #239tight; strict; close at hand; near; urgent; tense; hard up; short of money; to tighten
- 裹x1 | Chapter Rank #485to wrap around; bundle; parcel; package; to press into service; to pressgang; to make off with (sth)
- 着x24 | Chapter Rank #16a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to addto wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to applyaspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing stateto touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in
- 身子x2 | Chapter Rank #240body; pregnancy; health
- 为x2 | Chapter Rank #241because of; for; toas (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice)
- 无精打采x1 | Chapter Rank #486dispirited and downcast (idiom); listless; in low spirits; washed out