Vocabulary: 蒋廷黻：瓷器店中的猛牛
from 安身立命：大时代中的知识人
- 度x1 | Chapter Rank #557to estimate; Taiwan pr. [duo4]to pass; to spend (time); measure; limit; extent; degree of intensity; degree (angles, temperature etc); kilowatt-hour; classifier for events and occurrences
- 身x2 | Chapter Rank #275body; life; oneself; personally; one's morality and conduct; the main part of a structure or body; pregnant; classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset; Kangxi radical 158
- 制作x1 | Chapter Rank #558to make; to manufacture
- 皇皇x1 | Chapter Rank #559magnificent
- 巨著x1 | Chapter Rank #560monumental (literary) work
- 通通x1 | Chapter Rank #561all; entire; complete
- 加x1 | Chapter Rank #562Canada (abbr. for 加拿大[Jia1 na2 da4]); surname Jiato add; (math.) plus; to increase; to augment; (used before a disyllabic verb, often after an adverb like 不[bu4], 大[da4], 稍[shao1] etc, to indicate that the action applies to sth previously mentioned, as in 稍加改良[shao1 jia1 gai3 liang2] "make some minor improvements to (it)")
- 起来x2 | Chapter Rank #276to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qi3lai2](after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state; indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]); indicating completion; (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment; also pr. [qi3lai5]
- 也x14 | Chapter Rank #32also; too; as well; (not ...) either; (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]surname Ye
- 不及x1 | Chapter Rank #563to fall short of; not as good as; too late
- 这本x1 | Chapter Rank #564
- 小册子x1 | Chapter Rank #565booklet; pamphlet; leaflet; information sheet; menu; CL:本[ben3]
- 分量x1 | Chapter Rank #566(food) portion size(vector) componentquantity; weight; measure; (fig.) weight (importance, prestige, authority etc); (of written material) density
- 叫x1 | Chapter Rank #567to shout; to call; to order; to ask; to be called; by (indicates agent in the passive mood)
- 经典x2 | Chapter Rank #277the classics; scriptures; classical; classic (example, case etc); typical
- 才x6 | Chapter Rank #79ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only; (emphatic, esp. in contrast or correction) really; actually
- 李x5 | Chapter Rank #100surname Liplum
- 济x4 | Chapter Rank #126to cross a river; to aid or relieve; to be of helpused in place names associated with the Ji River 濟水|济水[Ji3 Shui3]; surname Jiused in 濟濟|济济[ji3 ji3]
- 之x19 | Chapter Rank #21(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]); him; her; it
- 说x24 | Chapter Rank #14to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrineto persuade
- 虽然x7 | Chapter Rank #66although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是[ke3 shi4] or 但是[dan4 shi4] etc)
- 不x23 | Chapter Rank #16no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 多x11 | Chapter Rank #40many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-
- 建立x2 | Chapter Rank #278to establish; to set up; to found
- 科学x1 | Chapter Rank #568science; scientific knowledge; scientific; rational; CL:門|门[men2],個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]
- 基础x2 | Chapter Rank #279base; foundation; basis; basic; fundamental
- 这个x3 | Chapter Rank #183(pronoun) this; (adjective) this
- 只是x3 | Chapter Rank #184merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however
- 建筑x1 | Chapter Rank #569to construct; building; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 若干x1 | Chapter Rank #570a certain number or amount; how many?; how much?
- 原始x1 | Chapter Rank #571first; original; primitive; original (document etc)
- 材料x1 | Chapter Rank #572(raw) material; data; (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job
- 更x7 | Chapter Rank #67to change or replace; to experience; one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided; watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)more; even more; further; still; still more
- 要紧x1 | Chapter Rank #573important; urgent
- 发展x5 | Chapter Rank #101development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand
- 几个x1 | Chapter Rank #574a few; several; how many
- 基本x2 | Chapter Rank #280basic; fundamental; main; elementary
- 观念x1 | Chapter Rank #575notion; thought; concept; sense; views; ideology; general impressions
- 不过x5 | Chapter Rank #102only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- 骨子里x1 | Chapter Rank #576beneath the surface; fundamentally; at the deepest level
- 与其说是x1 | Chapter Rank #577
- 还x12 | Chapter Rank #37surname Huanto pay back; to returnstill; still in progress; still more; yet; even more; in addition; fairly; passably (good); as early as; even; also; else
- 不如说是x1 | Chapter Rank #578
- 士大夫x4 | Chapter Rank #127scholar officials
- 五四x1 | Chapter Rank #579fourth of May, cf 五四運動|五四运动, national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles
- 一代x1 | Chapter Rank #580an era; an age; a generation
- 通x1 | Chapter Rank #581to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etcclassifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)
- 态x1 | Chapter Rank #582(bound form); appearance; shape; form; state; attitude; (grammar) voice
- 他们x18 | Chapter Rank #25they; them
- 不会x4 | Chapter Rank #128improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all