- long (tradition, history etc)
- tradition; traditional
- philosophy
- since; as; this being the case
- to return sb's gaze; to meet sb's eyes; to look back (to one's rear); (fig.) to look back at (the past); to reflect on
- course; process
- to salute; to pay one's respects to; to pay tribute to; to pay homage to
- to return to; to retreat; regression (statistics)
- to inspect; to review (troops etc); military review
- 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