Vocabulary: 第十章 熟铁与黄金
from 南方与北方
- 提供x2 | Chapter Rank #242to offer; to supply; to provide; to furnish
- 无言x2 | Chapter Rank #243to remain silent; to have nothing to say
- 辩解x1 | Chapter Rank #487to explain; to justify; to defend (a point of view etc); to provide an explanation; to try to defend oneself
- 房x4 | Chapter Rank #130surname Fanghouse; room; CL:間|间[jian1]; branch of an extended family; classifier for family members (or concubines)
- 时候x7 | Chapter Rank #72time; length of time; moment; period
- 玛格丽特x14 | Chapter Rank #36Margaret (name)margarita (cocktail)
- 正在x1 | Chapter Rank #488to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing
- 点灯x1 | Chapter Rank #489to light a lamp
- 因为x8 | Chapter Rank #59because; owing to; on account of
- 天色x1 | Chapter Rank #490color of the sky; time of day, as indicated by the color of the sky; weather
- 渐渐x1 | Chapter Rank #491gradually
- 下来x2 | Chapter Rank #244to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)
- 盏灯x1 | Chapter Rank #492
- 向x3 | Chapter Rank #165surname Xiangtowards; to face; to turn towards; direction; to support; to side with; shortly before; formerly; always; all along; (suffix) suitable for ...; oriented to ...to tend toward; to guidedirection; orientation; to face; to turn toward; to; towards; shortly before; formerly
- 昏暗x1 | Chapter Rank #493dusky
- 房间x2 | Chapter Rank #245room; CL:間|间[jian1]
- 中央x1 | Chapter Rank #494central; middle; center; central authorities (of a state)
- 投x1 | Chapter Rank #495to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc); to cast (a ballot); to cast (a glance, a shadow etc); to put in (money for investment, a coin to operate a slot machine); to send (a letter, a manuscript etc); to throw oneself into (a river, a well etc to commit suicide); to go to; to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of; (coll.) to rinse (clothes) in water
- 下x4 | Chapter Rank #131down; downwards; below; lower; later; next (week etc); second (of two parts); to decline; to go down; to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc); measure word to show the frequency of an action
- 一道x1 | Chapter Rank #496together
- 荧荧x1 | Chapter Rank #497a glimmer; twinkling (of stars, phosphorescence, candlelight); flickering light
- 亮光x2 | Chapter Rank #246light; beam of light; gleam of light; light reflected from an object
- 按着x1 | Chapter Rank #498
- 乡间x2 | Chapter Rank #247in the country; rural; pastoral
- 习惯x2 | Chapter Rank #248habit; custom; usual practice; to be used to; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 他们x15 | Chapter Rank #32they; them
- 并x8 | Chapter Rank #60and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to mergeto combine; to amalgamateshort name for Taiyuan 太原[Tai4 yuan2]
- 把x14 | Chapter Rank #37handleto 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})
- 夜空x1 | Chapter Rank #499night sky
- 外面x1 | Chapter Rank #500outside (also pr. [wai4 mian5] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance
- 黑暗x1 | Chapter Rank #501dark; darkly; darkness
- 空间x1 | Chapter Rank #502space; room; (fig.) scope; leeway; (astronomy) outer space; (physics, math.) space
- 遮挡x1 | Chapter Rank #503to shelter; to shelter from
- 起来x5 | Chapter Rank #103to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qi3lai2](after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state; indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]); indicating completion; (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment; also pr. [qi3lai5]
- 不知x2 | Chapter Rank #249not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
- 怎么x3 | Chapter Rank #166how?; what?; why?
- 这x40 | Chapter Rank #8(pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)(coll.) this
- 跟x9 | Chapter Rank #53heel; to follow closely; to go with; (of a woman) to marry sb; with; compared with; to; towards; and (joining two nouns)
- 刚x2 | Chapter Rank #250(literary) hard; firm; strong; exactly; precisely; barely; only just; just; only a short while ago
- 成x1 | Chapter Rank #504surname Cheng; short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth
- 鲜明x1 | Chapter Rank #505(of colors) bright; fresh and clear; clear-cut; distinct
- 对照x1 | Chapter Rank #506to contrast; to compare; to place side by side for comparison (as parallel texts); to check
- 陈设x1 | Chapter Rank #507to display; to exhibit; to set out; furnishings
- 漂亮x1 | Chapter Rank #508pretty; beautiful
- 沉闷x2 | Chapter Rank #251oppressive (of weather); heavy; depressed; not happy; (of sound) dull; muffled
- 除了x3 | Chapter Rank #167apart 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")
- 母亲x9 | Chapter Rank #54mother
- 坐x2 | Chapter Rank #252surname Zuoto sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc); to bear fruit
- 那个x1 | Chapter Rank #509that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc); (euph.) menstruation; sex; also pr. [nei4 ge5]
- 地点x1 | Chapter Rank #510place; site; location; venue; CL:個|个[ge4]