Vocabulary: 南方与北方
- glistening yellow; golden
- to murmur; to mumble; to grumble; to mutter
- the tip of a tree; treetop
- very far away
- unbearable; terrible; enough; unlikely
- noise; din
- (bird species of China) Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis)
- high altitude
- to circle in the air; to soar
- hardworking; industrious
- 闲 xián: 闲 xian2: enclosure; unoccupied; leisure闲 xián: 闲 xian2: idle; unoccupied; leisure
- grave; tomb
- to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture
- leisure; spare time; (of a person) free; unoccupied; (of equipment, rooms etc) unused; idle; vacant
- to be fast asleep; (fig.) to lie dormant; to lie undiscovered
- to have a high temperature (from illness); to have a fever; (fig.) to be fascinated with; to obsess over; (fig.) flourishing; thriving; popular
- conclusion; ending
- to consume; to use up; to deplete; to expend; (old) news; mail; message
- (of skies or one's mood) gloomy
- ear; CL:隻|只[zhi1],個|个[ge4],對|对[dui4]; handle (on a cup)
- 容 róng: 容 rong2: to hold; to contain; to allow; to tolerate; appearance; look; countenance容 Róng: 容 Rong2: surname Rong
- lung; CL:個|个[ge4]
- fur; down (soft fur); villi capillary (in the small intestine)
- to originate; to initiate; to launch (an attack, an initiative etc); to start; to propose sth (for the first time)
- insane; mad; wild
- to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely
- to moan; to groan
- the Revelation of St John the divine; the Apocalypse
- 背 bēi: 背 bei1: to carry on one's back; (fig.) to bear; to shoulder (a burden, blame etc)背 bèi: 背 bei4: the back of a body or object; to turn one's back; to hide something from; to learn by heart; to recite from memory; (slang) unlucky; hard of hearing
- to progress to (a higher-level school)
- never
- not bad; pretty good; fortunately; luckily
- in the sky; in the air
- seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
- handicapped person; useless person
- to cough up blood; (coll.) (used figuratively to indicate an extreme degree of anger or frustration etc)