Vocabulary: 林语堂：战士、名士与隐士
from 安身立命：大时代中的知识人
- 定于一尊x1 | Chapter Rank #986(idiom) to rely on a single authority to determine what is correct; to regard a source (or entity or individual) as the ultimate authority
- 进入x2 | Chapter Rank #519to enter; to join; to go into
- 载x1 | Chapter Rank #987to carry; to convey; to load; to hold; to fill up; and; also; as well as; simultaneouslyto record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. [zai4]; year
- 道x7 | Chapter Rank #125road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]); (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization; (Daoism) the Way; the Dao; to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel); (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words); classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division)
- 路子x1 | Chapter Rank #988method; way; approach
- 便x6 | Chapter Rank #143plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就[jiu4]: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwardsused in 便宜[pian2 yi5]; used in 便便[pian2 pian2]; used in 便嬛[pian2 xuan1]
- 萧条x1 | Chapter Rank #989bleak; desolate; (economics) in a slump; sluggish; depressed
- 秋天x4 | Chapter Rank #232autumn; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 果然x1 | Chapter Rank #990really; sure enough; as expected; if indeed
- 等到x1 | Chapter Rank #991to wait until; by the time when (sth is ready etc)
- 政权x2 | Chapter Rank #520regime; political power
- 垮台x1 | Chapter Rank #992(of a dynasty, regime etc) to collapse; to fall from power
- 等x3 | Chapter Rank #330to wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
- 国民党x3 | Chapter Rank #331Guomindang or Kuomintang (KMT); Nationalist Party
- 一统天下x1 | Chapter Rank #993
- 好日子x1 | Chapter Rank #994auspicious day; good day; happy life
- 到头x1 | Chapter Rank #995to the end (of); at the end of; in the end; to come to an end
- 四一二x1 | Chapter Rank #99612th April; refers to Chiang Kai-shek's coup of 12th April 1927 against the communists in Shanghai
- 大屠杀x1 | Chapter Rank #997massacre; mass slaughter
- 见到x1 | Chapter Rank #998to see
- 血x2 | Chapter Rank #521blood; colloquial pr. [xie3]; CL:滴[di1],片[pian4]see 血[xue4]
- 新派x1 | Chapter Rank #999new faction
- 杀x2 | Chapter Rank #522to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely
- 起x6 | Chapter Rank #144to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group
- 比x9 | Chapter Rank #99Belgium; Belgian; abbr. for 比利時|比利时[Bi3 li4 shi2]to compare; (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun}; ratio; to gesture; (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)
- 老派x2 | Chapter Rank #523old-fashioned; old-school
- 北洋军阀x1 | Chapter Rank #1000the Northern Warlords (1912-1927)
- 狠x2 | Chapter Rank #524ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; resolute; to harden (one's heart)
- 无人x2 | Chapter Rank #525unmanned; uninhabited
- 而且x4 | Chapter Rank #233(not only ...) but also; moreover; in addition; furthermore
- 打着x1 | Chapter Rank #1001
- 革命x1 | Chapter Rank #1002to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution; revolutionary; to revolt (against sb or sth); to revolutionize (sth); (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命); CL:次[ci4]
- 旗号x1 | Chapter Rank #1003military banner (often used figuratively, usually pejoratively, to mean "pretext" or "ostensible purpose"); flag signal; semaphore
- 舆论x3 | Chapter Rank #332public opinion
- 钳制x1 | Chapter Rank #1004to suppress; to muzzle; to gag
- 清末x1 | Chapter Rank #1005the final years of the Qing dynasty 清朝[Qing1 chao2]; late Qing
- 以来x1 | Chapter Rank #1006since (used after a specified time or event)
- 所x21 | Chapter Rank #38actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 未x1 | Chapter Rank #1007not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210°
- 见x3 | Chapter Rank #333to appear; also written 現|现[xian4]to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth); to interview; opinion; view
- 仿佛x1 | Chapter Rank #1008to seem; as if; seemingly; alike; similar
- 一夜x1 | Chapter Rank #1009
- 回到x6 | Chapter Rank #145to return to
- 雍正x1 | Chapter Rank #1010Yongzheng, reign name of Qing emperor (1722-1735)
- 乾隆x1 | Chapter Rank #1011the Qianlong era; Qianlong Emperor (1711–1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title 寶親王|宝亲王[Bao3 Qin1 wang2], personal name 弘曆|弘历[Hong2 li4], reigned 1735–1799
- 寓居x1 | Chapter Rank #1012to make one's home in; to reside in; to inhabit
- 上海x6 | Chapter Rank #146Shanghai municipality (short name 滬|沪[Hu4])
- 将x15 | Chapter Rank #51will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])(bound form) a general; (literary) to command; to lead; (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)to desire; to invite; to request
- 前x1 | Chapter Rank #1013front; forward; ahead; first; top (followed by a number); future; ago; before; BC (e.g. 前293年); former; formerly
- 几年x2 | Chapter Rank #526a few years; several years; how many years?