神奇树屋 - 黑夜里的骑士 - 03 跨过城桥

Magic Tree House - The Knight at Dawn - 03 Across the Bridge

• 00:00 Reading the story and explaining hard words simultaneously/在阅读故事的同时讲解难点词汇

Key words/重点词汇

• 研读 - to study attentively (a book), to delve into
• 城桥 - drawbridge
• 护城河 - moat
• 吊桥 - draw-bridge
• 以 - in order to
• 护城河有很多谁，以保护城堡 - there is a lot of water in the moat in order to protect the castle
• 侵入 - to make (military) incursions, to invade
• 鳄鱼 - crocodile
• 问号 - question mark, "?" (punctuation)
• 朦胧 - hazy
• 月色 - moonlight
• 微弱 - weak, faint, feeble
• 意象 - image, imagery
• 水墨画 - ink and wash painting
• 油画 - oil painting
• 抽象 - abstract
• 具象 - tangible image, concrete, representational (art)
• 写实 - realism, realistic portrayal, realistic, true to life
• 阴性 - feminine, yin (negative principle in nature)
• 浓雾 - thick fog
• 风车 - windmill, turbine (of all sorts, including handheld paper windmills)
• 风叶 - wind blade, fan blade
• 风扇 - electric fan
• 风磨坊 - windmill
• 磨 - to grind
• 工作坊 - workshop
• 研磨 - milling, to grind, to polish by grinding, to abrade; whetstone; pestle
• 谷物 - cereal, grain
• 小麦 - wheat
• 玉米 - corn, maize
• 风力 - wind force, wind power
• 发电 - to generate electricity
• 情景 - circumstances, situation
• 阵 - measure word for events or states of a relatively short duration (e.g. a gust, a burst)
• 一阵暴风雨 - a burst of stormy weather, a sudden storm
• 划破 - to cut open, to rip, to streak across (lightning, meteor, etc.), to pierce (scream, searchlight, etc.)
• 猪排 - pork ribs
• 痕迹 - mark, trace
• 伤口 - a cut, a wound
• 天际 - horizon, the sky
• 鹰房 - hawk house, mew (a building for trained hawks)
• 学术 - learning, science, academic
• 老鹰 - eagle, hawk
• 隼 - falcon (sometimes also "hawk", "bird of prey") (academic word)
• 内城 - inner ward of a castle, inner bailey, inner walls of a castle
• 皇帝 - emperor
• 伺候 - to serve, to wait upon
• 丫鬟 - servant girl, maid
• 皇宫 - imperial palace
• 佣人 - servant
• 皇上 - the emperor, Your majesty the emperor, His imperial majesty
• 猎捕 - to hunt, hunting

Support the show⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/acetracey