- the first half (of a period)
- to do the very opposite; to act in a diametrically opposite way
- necessary; essential; indispensable; required
- gaze; (fig.) attention; expression in one's eyes; look; (lit. and fig.) sight; vision
- beforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now; (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
- to come up; to approach; (verb complement indicating success)
- to be called; to be known as; to call it "..."
- to reason; to argue logically
- fable; allegory; parable; CL:則|则[ze2]
- the West; the Occident; Western countries
- philosopher
- to reveal; to display; to show; to exhibit
- to exist; to be; existence
- a few; several; how many
- to comprise; to include; to involve; to incorporate; to consist of
- Voltaire (1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer and philosopher
- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer and formulator of Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- (loanword) bacon
- gentry; celebrities
- to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)
- (construction) frame; (fig.) framework
- using this as a pretext; thereby
- to explain; to expound; to interpret; elucidation
- daydream; fantasy; to fantasize
- to experience adventures
- laboratory; CL:間|间[jian1]
- here
- to unfold; to spread out; to open up; to launch; to carry out
- debate; argument; to argue over; CL:場|场[chang3],次[ci4]
- and so on; and such
- outside; excluding
- the rest; the others; remaining; remainder; apart from them
- not only (... but also ...)
- later generations
- related; relevant; pertinent; to be interrelated; (statistics) correlation
- a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟[yi1 dian3 zhong1])
- as; as if; such as
- subjective idea
- history; CL:門|门[men2],段[duan4]
- to acquire; to get; to obtain
- to deserve (attention, respect etc); should have (freedoms, rights etc)
- to turn upside down; to reverse; back to front; confused; deranged; crazy
- model; typical case; archetype; typical; representative