Vocabulary: 翁文灏：一个科学家的错位
from 安身立命：大时代中的知识人
- 推托x1 | Chapter Rank #493to make excuses; to give an excuse (for not doing something)
- 正式x1 | Chapter Rank #494formal; official
- 入x2 | Chapter Rank #219to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時|入时[ru4 shi2]); abbr. for 入聲|入声[ru4 sheng1]; (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese 入 "iri")
- 京x1 | Chapter Rank #495surname Jing; short name for Beijing 北京[Bei3 jing1]; Gin or Jing, ethnic minority of China, descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living mainly in Guangxi; Kinh, the ethnic majority in Vietnamcapital city of a country; big; algebraic term for a large number (old); artificial mound (old)
- 廷x3 | Chapter Rank #124palace courtyard
- 黻x3 | Chapter Rank #125(archaic) embroidery using black and blue thread
- 一起x2 | Chapter Rank #220(in) the same place; together; in company (with); altogether; in total; an instance of; a case of (murder, accident, dispute etc)
- 从此x1 | Chapter Rank #496from now on; since then; henceforth
- 生涯x1 | Chapter Rank #497career; life (way in which sb lives); period of one's life
- 虽然x4 | Chapter Rank #84although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是[ke3 shi4] or 但是[dan4 shi4] etc)
- 迫不得已x1 | Chapter Rank #498to have no alternative (idiom); compelled by circumstances; forced into sth
- 起初x1 | Chapter Rank #499originally; at first; at the outset
- 未尝x1 | Chapter Rank #500not ever; not necessarily
- 雄心勃勃x1 | Chapter Rank #501aggressive and grand (idiom); ambitious; pushy
- 时期x1 | Chapter Rank #502period; phase; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 自信x2 | Chapter Rank #221to have confidence in oneself; self-confidence
- 看清楚x1 | Chapter Rank #503
- 什么x4 | Chapter Rank #85what?; something; anything
- 政者x1 | Chapter Rank #504
- 正x1 | Chapter Rank #505first month of the lunar yearstraight; upright; proper; main; principal; to correct; to rectify; exactly; just (at that time); right (in that place); (math.) positive
- 无论x1 | Chapter Rank #506no matter what or how; regardless of whether...
- 制度x1 | Chapter Rank #507system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 重要x1 | Chapter Rank #508important; significant; major
- 目的x1 | Chapter Rank #509purpose; aim; goal; target; objective
- 只x3 | Chapter Rank #126only; merely; justgrain that has begun to ripenclassifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
- 法子x1 | Chapter Rank #510way; method; Taiwan pr. [fa2 zi5]
- 使x1 | Chapter Rank #511to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- 好x2 | Chapter Rank #222to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone togood; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello
- 能够x2 | Chapter Rank #223to be capable of; to be able to; can
- 上去x1 | Chapter Rank #512to go up
- 当政x3 | Chapter Rank #127to come to power; to hold power; in office
- 不行x1 | Chapter Rank #513won't do; be out of the question; be no good; not work; not be capable
- 或x1 | Chapter Rank #514maybe; perhaps; might; possibly; or
- 相宜x1 | Chapter Rank #515to be suitable or appropriate
- 和平x2 | Chapter Rank #224peace; peaceful
- 下来x1 | Chapter Rank #516to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)
- 熟悉x1 | Chapter Rank #517to be familiar with; to know well
- 年代x3 | Chapter Rank #128a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 努力x1 | Chapter Rank #518to make an effort; to try hard; to strive; hard-working; conscientious
- 周报x1 | Chapter Rank #519weekly publication
- 人们x1 | Chapter Rank #520people
- 观x1 | Chapter Rank #521Taoist monastery; palace gate watchtower; platformto look at; to watch; to observe; to behold; to advise; concept; point of view; outlooksurname Guan
- 显然x1 | Chapter Rank #522clearly; evidently; obviously
- 胡适x2 | Chapter Rank #225Hu Shi (1891-1962), original proponent of writing in colloquial Chinese 白話文|白话文[bai2 hua4 wen2]
- 一辈x1 | Chapter Rank #523
- 鼓吹x1 | Chapter Rank #524to agitate for; to enthusiastically promote
- 主义x5 | Chapter Rank #62-ism; ideology
- 流风余韵x1 | Chapter Rank #525
- 当初x1 | Chapter Rank #526at that time; originally
- 受x2 | Chapter Rank #226to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker); (LGBT) bottom