Words 1001–1100
好运
good luck
饭
cooked rice; meal; (loanword) fan; devotee
后
empress; queen; (archaic) monarch; ruler; back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; …
大人
adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors
则
(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items
大年初一
Lunar New Year's Day
祝福
blessings; to wish sb well
风俗
social custom
背后
behind; at the back; in the rear; behind sb's back
家庭
family; household
重视
to attach importance to sth; to value
家家户户
each and every family (idiom); every household
扫
to sweep (with a brush or broom); to sweep away; to wipe out; to get rid of; to sweep (one's eyes etc) over; to scan
尘
dust; dirt; earth
旧
old; opposite: new 新; former; worn (with age)
春联
Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side)
福
good fortune; happiness; luck
字
letter; symbol; character; word; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
倒着
backwards; in reverse; upside down
倒
to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
同音
(music) unison; (linguistics) homophonous; homonymic
表示
(of sb) to express; to state; to show; (of sth) to indicate; to signify; to show; expression; manifestation
福气
good fortune; a blessing
长辈
one's elders; older generation
孩子
child
装
adornment; to adorn; dress; clothing; costume (of an actor in a play); to play a role; to pretend; to install; to fix; to wrap (sth in a bag); …
压岁钱
money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve
初一
first year in junior middle school; first day of a lunar month
之间
(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 (tánzhǐzhījiān))
走动
to walk around; to move about; to visit one another; to socialize; (dialect) to go to the toilet
元宵节
Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
真正
genuine; real; true; really; indeed
结束
to end; to finish; to conclude
建筑
to construct; building
最初
first; primary; initial; original; at first; initially; originally
为了
for; for the purpose of; in order to
防止
to prevent; to guard against; to take precautions
民族
nationality; ethnic group
进攻
to attack; to assault; to go on the offensive; attack; assault; offense (sports)
而
and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast)
Conjunction
建造
to construct; to build
春秋
Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); Spring and Autumn Annals, chronicle of Lu State (722-481 BC)
时期
period; phase
许多
many; a lot of; much
诸侯国
vassal state
修
to decorate; to embellish; to repair; to build; to write; to cultivate; to study; to take (a class)
城墙
city wall
秦始皇
Qin Shihuang (259-210 BC), the first emperor
统一
to unify; to integrate; unified; integrated
连接
to link; to join; to connect
成
to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth
条
strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
大部分
the greater part; the majority; most; Taiwan pr. dà4bu4fen
明朝
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
修建
to build; to construct
耗费
to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander
无数
countless; numberless; innumerable
劳工
labor; laborer
生命
life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:条 (tiáo))
如今
nowadays; now
不再
no more; no longer
防御工事
fortification; defensive structure
而是
rather
见证
to be witness to; witness; evidence
包括
to comprise; to include; to involve; to incorporate; to consist of
关口
pass; gateway; (fig.) juncture
烽火
fire beacon (to give alarm)
驻军
to station or garrison troops; garrison
城堡
castle; rook (chess piece)
古代
ancient times
通信
to correspond (by letter, email etc); to send or receive messages through telecommunications
方式
way; method; manner; mode; pattern (of behavior etc)
发现
to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect; a discovery
敌人
enemy
白天
daytime; during the day; day
烟
cigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist; vapour; tobacco plant; (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke; tobacco (variant of 烟 (yān))
点火
to ignite; to light a fire; to agitate; to start an engine; ignition; fig. to stir up trouble
信号
signal
内传
biography recounting apocryphal anecdotes and rumors; (old) book of exegesis of a classic
一句
a line of verse; a sentence
老话
an old saying
不到长城非好汉
lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you're not a proper person; fig. to get over difficulties before reaching the goal
千万
ten million; countless; many; one must by all means
远处
distant place
故乡
home; homeland; native place
饮茶
to drink tea; (Cantonese) to have tea and dim sum
已
already; (bound form) to stop; to cease; to end; (literary) thereafter; afterward; (literary) too; excessively
几千
several thousand
种类
kind; genus; type; category; variety; species; sort; class
乌龙茶
oolong tea
普
general; popular; everywhere; universal
白茶
white tea
等等
et cetera; and so on ...; wait a minute!; hold on!
泡
bubble; foam; blister; to soak; to steep; to infuse; to dawdle; to loiter; to pick up (a girl); to get off with (a sexual partner); classifier for occurrences of an action; classifier for number of infusions
法
France; French; abbr. for 法国 (Fǎguó); Taiwan pr. Fà
水温
water temperature
社交
interaction; social contact
茶馆
teahouse
度过
to pass; to spend (time); to survive; to get through
整个
whole; entire; total