Vocabulary: 第十八回 三道试题
from 射雕英雄传（二）
- 留住x1 | Chapter Rank #2244to ask sb to stay; to keep sb for the night; to await (classical)
- 家传x2 | Chapter Rank #1200family history (as a literary genre)handed down in a family; family traditions
- 绝世x1 | Chapter Rank #2245unique; exceptional
- 武艺x5 | Chapter Rank #475martial art; military skill
- 奈何x1 | Chapter Rank #2246to do something to sb; to deal with; to cope; how?; to no avail
- 不得x6 | Chapter Rank #396must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot
- 欧阳锋赞x1 | Chapter Rank #2247
- 身手x1 | Chapter Rank #2248skill; talent; agility
- 倾倒x1 | Chapter Rank #2249to topple over; to fall over; to greatly admire; to prostrate oneself beforeto dump; to pour out; to empty out
- 不已x1 | Chapter Rank #2250(used after a verb) endlessly; incessantly
- 飞鸽传书x1 | Chapter Rank #2251
- 讯息x1 | Chapter Rank #2252information; news; message; text message; SMS
- 中原x2 | Chapter Rank #1201Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei
- 传到x1 | Chapter Rank #2253
- 驼x1 | Chapter Rank #2254hump or hunchbacked; camel
- 山x1 | Chapter Rank #2255surname Shanmountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4]); (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
- 求x3 | Chapter Rank #803to seek; to look for; to request; to demand; to beseech
- 万里迢迢x1 | Chapter Rank #2256(adverbial phrase used with verbs such as 歸|归[gui1] or 赴[fu4] etc) traveling a great distance
- 赶到x1 | Chapter Rank #2257to hurry (to some place)
- 亲x1 | Chapter Rank #2258parent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative; related; marriage; bride; close; intimate; in person; first-hand; in favor of; pro-; to kiss; (Internet slang) dearparents-in-law of one's offspring
- 相求x1 | Chapter Rank #2259
- 附x1 | Chapter Rank #2260to add; to attach; to be close to; to be attached
- 婚姻x1 | Chapter Rank #2261marriage; matrimony; CL:樁|桩[zhuang1],次[ci4]
- 不肖x1 | Chapter Rank #2262(literary) unlike one's parents; degenerate; unworthy
- 令x3 | Chapter Rank #804classifier for a ream of paperto order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make sth happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poemused in 脊令[ji2 ling2]; used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])
- 马不停蹄x1 | Chapter Rank #2263unrelenting; without stopping to rest
- 兼程x1 | Chapter Rank #2264to travel at double speed; to make all haste
- 除了x1 | Chapter Rank #2265apart 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")
- 而外x1 | Chapter Rank #2266
- 第二x2 | Chapter Rank #1202second; number two; next; secondary
- 有劳x1 | Chapter Rank #2267(polite) thank you for your trouble (used when asking a favor or after having received one)
- 驾x1 | Chapter Rank #2268surname Jiato harness; to draw (a cart etc); to drive; to pilot; to sail; to ride; your good self; prefixed word denoting respect (polite 敬辭|敬辞[jing4 ci2])
- 不敢当x1 | Chapter Rank #2269lit. I dare not (accept the honor); fig. I don't deserve your praise; you flatter me
- 身分x3 | Chapter Rank #805
- 远道x1 | Chapter Rank #2270
- 转身x5 | Chapter Rank #476(of a person) to turn round; to face about; (of a widow) to remarry (archaic)
- 倾慕x1 | Chapter Rank #2271to adore; to admire greatly
- 人才x1 | Chapter Rank #2272talent; talented person; looks; attractive looks
- 怎么x8 | Chapter Rank #296how?; what?; why?
- 顺眼x1 | Chapter Rank #2273pleasing to the eye; nice to look at
- 小辈x6 | Chapter Rank #397the younger generation
- 命x5 | Chapter Rank #477life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc
- 长x3 | Chapter Rank #806long; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte; (bound form) to be good at; (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4])chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop; to increase; to enhance
- 丧生x1 | Chapter Rank #2274to die; to lose one's life
- 满x2 | Chapter Rank #1203Manchu ethnic groupto fill; full; filled; packed; fully; completely; quite; to reach the limit; to satisfy; satisfied; contented
- 天花x1 | Chapter Rank #2275smallpox; ceiling; stamen of corn; (old) snow; (dialect) sesame oil
- 雨x1 | Chapter Rank #2276rain; CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2](literary) to rain; (of rain, snow etc) to fall; to precipitate; to wet
- 绝技x2 | Chapter Rank #1204consummate skill; supreme feat; tour-de-force; stunt
- 之下x3 | Chapter Rank #807under; beneath; less than
- 当日x1 | Chapter Rank #2277that very day; the same dayon that day