Vocabulary: 蒋廷黻：瓷器店中的猛牛
from 安身立命：大时代中的知识人
- 京x1 | Chapter Rank #935surname 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)
- 老朋友x2 | Chapter Rank #389old friend; (slang) period; menstruation
- 成为x3 | Chapter Rank #220to become; to turn into
- 最高x2 | Chapter Rank #390tallest; highest; supreme (court etc)
- 管家x1 | Chapter Rank #936(old) butler; steward; manager; administrator; housekeeper; to manage a household
- 左右手x1 | Chapter Rank #937left and right hands; (fig.) capable assistant; right-hand man
- 消息x1 | Chapter Rank #938(piece of) news; information; message; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- 不少x1 | Chapter Rank #939many; quite a few; a good number of
- 朋友x4 | Chapter Rank #149friend; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- 纷纷x1 | Chapter Rank #940one after another; in succession; one by one; continuously; diverse; in profusion; numerous and confused; pell-mell
- 劝x2 | Chapter Rank #391to advise; to urge; to try to persuade; to exhort; to console; to soothe
- 三思而行x1 | Chapter Rank #941think three times then go (idiom); don't act before you've thought it through carefully
- 有的是x1 | Chapter Rank #942have plenty of; there's no lack of
- 诚意x1 | Chapter Rank #943sincerity; good faith
- 深x1 | Chapter Rank #944(lit. and fig.) deep
- 怀疑x1 | Chapter Rank #945to doubt (sth); to be skeptical of; to have one's doubts; to harbor suspicions; to suspect that
- 虑x1 | Chapter Rank #946to think over; to consider; anxiety
- 以为x4 | Chapter Rank #150to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
- 污浊x1 | Chapter Rank #947dirty; muddy; foul (sewer)
- 搞不好x1 | Chapter Rank #948(coll.) maybe; perhaps
- 身败名裂x1 | Chapter Rank #949to lose one's standing; to have one's reputation swept away; a complete defeat and fall from grace
- 保持x3 | Chapter Rank #221to keep; to maintain; to hold; to preserve
- 清高x4 | Chapter Rank #151noble and virtuous; aloof from politics and material pursuits
- 在野x2 | Chapter Rank #392to be out of (political) office; to be out of power
- 议论x1 | Chapter Rank #950to comment; to talk about; to discuss; discussion; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 时事x1 | Chapter Rank #951current trends; the present situation; how things are going
- 教书x2 | Chapter Rank #393to work as a teacher; to teach (in a school)
- 何尝x1 | Chapter Rank #952(rhetorical question) when?; how?; it's not that...
- 风险x1 | Chapter Rank #953risk; hazard
- 以及x2 | Chapter Rank #394and; as well as
- 悠闲x1 | Chapter Rank #954leisurelyleisurely; carefree; relaxed
- 许多x3 | Chapter Rank #222many; a lot of; much
- 令人满意x1 | Chapter Rank #955satisfying; satisfactory
- 处x4 | Chapter Rank #152to reside; to live; to dwell; to be in; to be situated at; to stay; to get along with; to be in a position of; to deal with; to discipline; to punish(bound form) place; locality; (bound form) part; aspect; (bound form) office; department; bureau; classifier for locations: spot, point
- 比起x1 | Chapter Rank #956compared with
- 时代x1 | Chapter Rank #957age; era; epoch; period (in one's life); CL:個|个[ge4]Time, US weekly news magazine
- 古代x2 | Chapter Rank #395ancient times
- 得罪x1 | Chapter Rank #958to commit an offense; to violate the law; excuse me! (formal); see also 得罪[de2 zui5]to offend sb; to make a faux pas; a faux pas; see also 得罪[de2 zui4]
- 君王x1 | Chapter Rank #959sovereign king
- 贬谪x1 | Chapter Rank #960to banish from the court; to relegate
- 推出x1 | Chapter Rank #961to push out; to release; to launch; to publish; to recommend
- 午门x1 | Chapter Rank #962
- 斩首x1 | Chapter Rank #963to behead; to decapitate
- 夷x1 | Chapter Rank #964non-Han people, esp. to the East of China; barbarians; to wipe out; to exterminate; to tear down; to raze
- 九族x1 | Chapter Rank #965
- 再说x1 | Chapter Rank #966to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides
- 万一x1 | Chapter Rank #967just in case; if by any chance; contingency
- 道x1 | Chapter Rank #968road; 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)
- 行x1 | Chapter Rank #969(bound form) row; line; (bound form) line of business; trade; profession; (bound form) commercial firm; (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age); (in data tables) row; (Tw) column; classifier for rows or linesused in 道行[dao4 heng2](bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit; (bound form) temporary; makeshift; (bound form) current; in circulation; (bound form) to do; to perform; capable; competent; all right; OK!; will do; behavior; conduct (Taiwan pr. [xing4]); (literary) about to; soon
- 大学x1 | Chapter Rank #970the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1] in Confucianismuniversity; college; CL:所[suo3]