Vocabulary
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| 竟然 竟然 | unexpectedly; to one's surprise; in spite of everything; in that crazy way; actually; to go as far as to | |
| 政治 政治 | politics; political | |
| 根 根 | root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry) | |
| 于是 於是 | thereupon; as a result; consequently; thus; hence | |
| 投 投 | to cast; to send; to throw oneself (into the river etc); to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of | |
| 轮 輪 | wheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate; classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn | |
| 而是 而是 | rather | |
| 梦 夢 | dream; (bound form) to dream | |
| 法 㳒 | France; French; abbr. for 法国; Taiwan pr. [Fà] | |
| 首 首 | head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc | |
| 定 定 | to set; to fix; to determine; to decide; to order | |
| 处 處 | to reside; to live; to dwell; to be in; to be situated at; to stay; to get along with; to be in a position of; to deal with; to discipline; to punish | |
| 对于 對於 | regarding; as far as (sth) is concerned; with regard to | |
| 之前 之前 | before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand | |
| 甚至 甚至 | even; so much so that | |
| 之间 之間 | (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 弹指之间) | |
| 呀 呀 | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) | |
| 无 無 | not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less | |
| 之后 之後 | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then | |
| 却 卻 | but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 深更半夜 深更半夜 | in the dead of night (idiom) | Idiom |
| 不由自主 不由自主 | can't help; involuntarily (idiom) | Xiehouyu |
| 没用 沒用 | useless | Xiehouyu |
| 深刻 深刻 | profound; deep; deep-going | Xiehouyu |
| 痛苦 痛苦 | pain; suffering; painful | Xiehouyu |
| 李白 李白 | Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet | Proper Noun |
| 城外 城外 | outside of a city | Proper Noun |
| 城门 城門 | city gate | Proper Noun |
| 封城 封城 | to lock down a city | Proper Noun |
| 宋代 宋代 | Song dynasty (960-1279) | Proper Noun |
| 台北 臺北 | Taipei, capital of Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 进城 進城 | to go to town; to enter a big city (to live or work) | Proper Noun |
| 杏花村 杏花村 | village of blossoming apricot trees where one can find a wineshop (reference to the famous poem 清明 by) | Proper Noun |
| 麦 麥 | wheat, barley, oats; simplified form of KangXi radical number 199 | |
| 沙 沙 | sand, gravel, pebbles; granulated | |
| 异 異 | different, unusual, strange | |
| 时分 時分 | time; period during the day; one of the 12 two-hour periods enumerated by the earthly branches 地支 | |
| 世人 世人 | people (in general); people around the world; everyone | |
| 一声 一聲 | first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone) | |
| 陆 陸 | land, continental; army | |
| 失 失 | lose; make mistake, neglect | |
| 已久 已久 | already a long time | |
| 无人 無人 | unmanned; uninhabited | |
| 简 簡 | simple, terse, succinct, a letter | |
| 星空 星空 | starry sky; the star-studded heavens | |
| 木 木 | tree; wood, lumber; wooden | |
| 静坐 靜坐 | to sit quietly; to meditate; to stage a sit-in | |
| 挂名 掛名 | to attach sb's name to (a role); to go by the title of; nominal; in name only | |
| 赶来 趕來 | to rush over |