Vocabulary: 叶公超：误入宦途侯门深
from 安身立命：大时代中的知识人
- 小猫x1 | Chapter Rank #590kitten
- 钓鱼x1 | Chapter Rank #591to fish (with line and hook); to angle; (fig.) to entrap; (Tw) to repeatedly nod one's head while dozing
- 缺乏x1 | Chapter Rank #592to lack; to be short of
- 深入x1 | Chapter Rank #593to penetrate deeply; thorough
- 韧劲x1 | Chapter Rank #594tenacity
- 落得x1 | Chapter Rank #595ending up as; leading to; resulting in; in total
- 一事无成x1 | Chapter Rank #596(idiom) to have achieved nothing; to be a total failure; to get nowhere
- 发展x1 | Chapter Rank #597development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand
- 不幸x2 | Chapter Rank #278misfortune; adversity; unfortunate; sad; unfortunately; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 验证x1 | Chapter Rank #598to inspect and verify; experimental verification; to validate (a theory); to authenticate
- 条x1 | Chapter Rank #599strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
- 铁律x1 | Chapter Rank #600an iron law; a cast-iron rule
- 还是x8 | Chapter Rank #52still (as before); had better; unexpectedly; or
- 八面玲珑x2 | Chapter Rank #279be smooth and slick (in establishing social relations)
- 之x14 | Chapter Rank #26(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]); him; her; it
- 朋友x5 | Chapter Rank #95friend; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- 多x2 | Chapter Rank #280many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-
- 不计其数x1 | Chapter Rank #601lit. their number cannot be counted (idiom); fig. countless; innumerable
- 三教九流x1 | Chapter Rank #602the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists); fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
- 无不x1 | Chapter Rank #603none lacking; none missing; everything is there; everyone without exception
- 结交x1 | Chapter Rank #604to make friends with
- 一点x4 | Chapter Rank #128a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟[yi1 dian3 zhong1])
- 很x7 | Chapter Rank #69very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- 靠x1 | Chapter Rank #605to lean against or on; to stand by the side of; to come near to; to depend on; to trust; to fuck (vulgar); traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old)
- 修养x1 | Chapter Rank #606accomplishment; training; self-cultivation
- 则x3 | Chapter Rank #178(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items
- 完全x1 | Chapter Rank #607complete; whole; totally; entirely
- 出自x2 | Chapter Rank #281to come from
- 天性x1 | Chapter Rank #608nature; innate tendency
- 老派x1 | Chapter Rank #609old-fashioned; old-school
- 绅士x2 | Chapter Rank #282gentleman
- 待人接物x1 | Chapter Rank #610(idiom) to interact with people
- 一以贯之x1 | Chapter Rank #611(idiom) (of a principle, purpose etc) consistently upheld; adhered to from beginning to end
- 以诚相待x1 | Chapter Rank #612
- 却x5 | Chapter Rank #96but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though
- 人小鬼大x1 | Chapter Rank #613
- 有点x3 | Chapter Rank #179a little
- 魔头x1 | Chapter Rank #614monster; devil
- 本领x1 | Chapter Rank #615skill; ability; capability; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
- 见x44 | Chapter Rank #8to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth); to interview; opinion; viewto appear; also written 現|现[xian4]
- 话x1 | Chapter Rank #616dialect; language; spoken words; speech; talk; words; conversation; what sb said; CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
- 见鬼x1 | Chapter Rank #617absurd; strange; (interj.) curse it!; to hell with it!
- 说鬼话x1 | Chapter Rank #618
- 优雅x1 | Chapter Rank #619grace; graceful
- 粗俗x1 | Chapter Rank #620vulgar
- 转换x1 | Chapter Rank #621to change; to switch; to convert; to transform
- 易如反掌x1 | Chapter Rank #622easy as a hand's turn (idiom); very easy; no effort at all
- 周作人x1 | Chapter Rank #623Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4], academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution
- 自己x10 | Chapter Rank #40oneself; (attributive) one's own
- 心中x1 | Chapter Rank #624central point; in one's thoughts; in one's heart