Vocabulary: 自序
from 安身立命：大时代中的知识人
- 民间x4 | Chapter Rank #293among the people; popular; folk; non-governmental; involving people rather than governments
- 创造x1 | Chapter Rank #992to create; to bring about; to produce; to set (a record)
- 前所未有x1 | Chapter Rank #993(idiom) unprecedented
- 公共x3 | Chapter Rank #382public; common; communal
- 学校x5 | Chapter Rank #231school; CL:所[suo3]
- 媒体x2 | Chapter Rank #553media, esp. news media
- 社团x2 | Chapter Rank #554association; society; group; union; club; organization
- 制造舆论x1 | Chapter Rank #994
- 光绪x1 | Chapter Rank #995reign name of penultimate Qing emperor Guangxu or Guang-hsu (1875-1908)
- 失势x1 | Chapter Rank #996to lose power and influence
- 改革x3 | Chapter Rank #383reform; CL:次[ci4],種|种[zhong3],項|项[xiang4]; to reform
- 几乎x3 | Chapter Rank #384almost; nearly; practically
- 发展x4 | Chapter Rank #294development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand
- 活动舞台x1 | Chapter Rank #997
- 哪里x1 | Chapter Rank #998where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪裡|哪里where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment
- 报纸x1 | Chapter Rank #999newspaper; newsprint; CL:份[fen4],期[qi1],張|张[zhang1]
- 见于x1 | Chapter Rank #1000
- 戊戌维新x1 | Chapter Rank #1001Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
- 出现x7 | Chapter Rank #146to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up
- 内部x5 | Chapter Rank #232interior; inside (part, section); internal
- 高度x3 | Chapter Rank #385height; altitude; elevation; high degree; highly; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 中央集权x1 | Chapter Rank #1002centralized state power
- 绝对x1 | Chapter Rank #1003absolute; unconditional
- 王权x1 | Chapter Rank #1004royalty; royal power
- 社会x29 | Chapter Rank #22society
- 往往x1 | Chapter Rank #1005usually; in many cases; more often than not
- 边缘x6 | Chapter Rank #177edge; fringe; verge; brink; periphery; marginal; borderline
- 逐步x1 | Chapter Rank #1006progressively; step by step
- 向x2 | Chapter Rank #555surname Xiangtowards; to face; to turn towards; direction; to support; to side with; shortly before; formerly; always; all along; (suffix) suitable for ...; oriented to ...to tend toward; to guidedirection; orientation; to face; to turn toward; to; towards; shortly before; formerly
- 渗透x1 | Chapter Rank #1007(lit. and fig.) to permeate; to seep into; (of a product, idea etc) to penetrate (in a population); (of hostile forces) to infiltrate; (chemistry) osmosis
- 成功x2 | Chapter Rank #556Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[Tai2 dong1 Xian4], southeast Taiwanto succeed; success; successful; fruitful
- 倒逼x1 | Chapter Rank #1008(neologism c. 2006) (of circumstances) to stimulate (change, esp. innovation, reform etc)
- 洋务运动x1 | Chapter Rank #1009Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動|自强运动
- 再x4 | Chapter Rank #295again; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time; (before an adjective) more; then (after sth, and not until then); no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis); (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4 ze2], 再就是[zai4 jiu4 shi4] etc); (literary) to reappear; to reoccur
- 新政x1 | Chapter Rank #1010new policy; New Deal (Roosevelt's 1933 policy to deal with the Great Depression)
- 辛亥革命x3 | Chapter Rank #386Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
- 皆x1 | Chapter Rank #1011all; each and every; in all cases
- 如此x1 | Chapter Rank #1012like this; so; such
- 执掌x1 | Chapter Rank #1013to wield (power etc)
- 牛耳x1 | Chapter Rank #1014
- 重心x1 | Chapter Rank #1015center of gravity; central core; main part
- 却是x1 | Chapter Rank #1016nevertheless; actually; the fact is ...
- 倒x1 | Chapter Rank #1017to 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 profitto 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; yet
- 过来x1 | Chapter Rank #1018see 過來|过来[guo4 lai2]to come over; to manage; to handle; to be able to take care of
- 流落x1 | Chapter Rank #1019to wander about destitute; to be stranded
- 逆向x1 | Chapter Rank #1020backwards; reverse direction
- 过程x2 | Chapter Rank #557course of events; process
- 首先x3 | Chapter Rank #387first of all; in the first place
- 其后x1 | Chapter Rank #1021next; later; after that
- 因x1 | Chapter Rank #1022cause; reason; because