Vocabulary: 蒋廷黻：瓷器店中的猛牛
from 安身立命：大时代中的知识人
- 兼x1 | Chapter Rank #971double; twice; simultaneous; holding two or more (official) posts at the same time
- 对手x1 | Chapter Rank #972opponent; rival; competitor; (well-matched) adversary; match
- 倒x1 | Chapter Rank #973to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yetto fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit
- 体谅x1 | Chapter Rank #974to empathize; to allow (for sth); to show understanding; to appreciate
- 晋京x1 | Chapter Rank #975
- 送x1 | Chapter Rank #976to send; to deliver; to transmit; to give (as a present); to see (sb) off; to accompany; to go along with
- 两句诗x1 | Chapter Rank #977
- 刚刚x1 | Chapter Rank #978just recently; just a moment ago
- 故去x1 | Chapter Rank #979(euphemism) to pass away; to die
- 寄语x1 | Chapter Rank #980to give an earnest message of good wishes, encouragement, or advice etc; a message of this sort
- 麻x1 | Chapter Rank #981surname Mageneric name for hemp, flax etc; hemp or flax fiber for textile materials; sesame; CL:縷|缕[lu:3]; (of materials) rough or coarse; pocked; pitted; to have pins and needles or tingling; to feel numb
- 姑x1 | Chapter Rank #982paternal aunt; husband's sister; husband's mother (old); nun; for the time being (literary)
- 桥下x1 | Chapter Rank #983
- 水x1 | Chapter Rank #984surname Shui; Shui ethnic groupwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4 shui3] and 水性[shui3 xing4]); (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy; (bound form) additional cost; extra income; classifier for washings of a garment
- 出山x1 | Chapter Rank #985to leave the mountain (of a hermit); to come out of obscurity to a government job; to take a leading position
- 山x1 | Chapter Rank #986mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4]); (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons onsurname Shan
- 清x3 | Chapter Rank #223Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China (1644–1911); surname Qing(of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts)
- 想必x1 | Chapter Rank #987presumably; probably; in all likelihood; surely
- 有些x1 | Chapter Rank #988some; somewhat; rather; a bit
- 知音x1 | Chapter Rank #989intimate friend; soul mate
- 感x1 | Chapter Rank #990to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~
- 发表文章x1 | Chapter Rank #991
- 泉x2 | Chapter Rank #396spring (small stream); mouth of a spring; coin (archaic)
- 笔名x1 | Chapter Rank #992pen name; pseudonym
- 衙门x1 | Chapter Rank #993yamen, government office in dynastic China
- 里面x2 | Chapter Rank #397inside; interior; also pr. [li3 mian5]
- 当官x1 | Chapter Rank #994
- 真的x2 | Chapter Rank #398really; truly; indeed; real; true; genuine; (math.) proper
- 做到x1 | Chapter Rank #995to accomplish; to achieve
- 就要x1 | Chapter Rank #996will; shall; to be going to
- 追求x3 | Chapter Rank #224to pursue (a goal etc) stubbornly; to seek after; to woo
- 功名利禄x1 | Chapter Rank #997position and wealth (idiom); rank, fame and fortune
- 志业x2 | Chapter Rank #399
- 显然x1 | Chapter Rank #998clearly; evidently; obviously
- 一段话x1 | Chapter Rank #999
- 斩钉截铁x1 | Chapter Rank #1000lit. to chop the nail and slice the iron (idiom); fig. resolute and decisive; unhesitating; categorical
- 视作x2 | Chapter Rank #400to regard as; to treat as
- 做官x2 | Chapter Rank #401to take an official post; to become a government employee
- 座右铭x1 | Chapter Rank #1001motto; maxim
- 首先x1 | Chapter Rank #1002first of all; in the first place
- 人生观x1 | Chapter Rank #1003
- 圆滑x2 | Chapter Rank #402smooth and evasive; slick and sly
- 通融x1 | Chapter Rank #1004flexible; to accommodate; to stretch or get around regulations; a short-term loan
- 敷衍x1 | Chapter Rank #1005to elaborate (on a theme); to expound (the classics); perfunctory; to skimp; to botch; to do sth half-heartedly or just for show; barely enough to get by
- 消极x2 | Chapter Rank #403negative; passive; inactive
- 该x1 | Chapter Rank #1006should; ought to; probably; must be; to deserve; to owe; to be sb's turn to do sth; that; the above-mentioned
- 打倒x1 | Chapter Rank #1007to overthrow; to knock down; Down with ... !
- 做事x5 | Chapter Rank #111to work; to handle matters; to have a job
- 吃苦x1 | Chapter Rank #1008to bear hardships
- 挨骂x1 | Chapter Rank #1009to receive a scolding