Vocabulary: 王小波：他思故他在
from 安身立命：大时代中的知识人
- 课堂x1 | Chapter Rank #682classroom (CL:間|间[jian1]); class session
- 现在x3 | Chapter Rank #228now; at present; currently
- 所x11 | Chapter Rank #52actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 教x2 | Chapter Rank #340(bound form) to teach; to instruct; a religion; to cause (sb to do sth); to tell (sb to do sth)surname Jiaoto teach; to instruct
- 数学x1 | Chapter Rank #683mathematics
- 你们x2 | Chapter Rank #341you (plural)
- 也许x2 | Chapter Rank #342perhaps; maybe
- 用x1 | Chapter Rank #684to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions); usefulness; utility; (bound form) expense; outlay; (courteous) to eat; to drink; (literary) hence; therefore
- 不到x2 | Chapter Rank #343not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient; less than
- 还要x3 | Chapter Rank #229
- 让x2 | Chapter Rank #344to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])
- 正是x1 | Chapter Rank #685is precisely
- 并非x1 | Chapter Rank #686really isn't
- 否则x2 | Chapter Rank #345otherwise; if not; or (else)
- 怎么x1 | Chapter Rank #687how?; what?; why?
- 能够x2 | Chapter Rank #346to be capable of; to be able to; can
- 商业x1 | Chapter Rank #688business; trade; commerce
- 经济x1 | Chapter Rank #689economy; economic
- 科班出身x1 | Chapter Rank #690
- 弃x1 | Chapter Rank #691to abandon; to relinquish; to discard; to throw away
- 商x1 | Chapter Rank #692commerce; merchant; dealer; to consult; 2nd note in pentatonic scale; quotient (as in 智商[zhi4 shang1], intelligence quotient)Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC); surname Shang
- 文x1 | Chapter Rank #693surname Wenlanguage; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67
- 无x2 | Chapter Rank #347used in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less
- 凭借x2 | Chapter Rank #348to rely on; to depend on; by means of; thanks to; sth that one relies on
- 如今x2 | Chapter Rank #349nowadays; now
- 已经x2 | Chapter Rank #350already
- 时尚x1 | Chapter Rank #694fashion; fad; fashionable
- 甚至x1 | Chapter Rank #695even; so much so that
- 连x2 | Chapter Rank #351surname Lianto link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也[ye3], 都[dou1] etc) even; company (military)
- 某些x2 | Chapter Rank #352some; certain (things)
- 紧抱x1 | Chapter Rank #696to hug; to embrace
- 铁饭碗x2 | Chapter Rank #353secure employment (lit. iron rice bowl)
- 放x1 | Chapter Rank #697to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks)
- 大陆x3 | Chapter Rank #230mainland China (reference to the PRC)continent; mainland; CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- 自居x2 | Chapter Rank #354to consider oneself as; to believe oneself to be
- 辞掉x1 | Chapter Rank #698to quit (one's job); to dismiss (an employee)
- 探求x2 | Chapter Rank #355to seek; to pursue; to investigate
- 写作x2 | Chapter Rank #356to write; to compose; writing; written works
- 明白x1 | Chapter Rank #699clear; obvious; unequivocal; sensible; reasonable; to understand; to realize
- 实在x2 | Chapter Rank #357really; actually; indeed; true; real; honest; dependable; (philosophy) reality
- 重要x5 | Chapter Rank #133important; significant; major
- 它x5 | Chapter Rank #134itit (pronoun for an animal)
- 安身立命x1 | Chapter Rank #700(idiom) to settle down and pursue one's path in life
- 最终x1 | Chapter Rank #701final; ultimate
- 古代x1 | Chapter Rank #702ancient times
- 教士x3 | Chapter Rank #231churchman; clergy
- 儒士x1 | Chapter Rank #703a Confucian scholar
- 拥有x3 | Chapter Rank #232to have; to possess; to own
- 圣经x1 | Chapter Rank #704the Confucian classics; (Christianity, Judaism) the holy scriptures; CL:本[ben3],部[bu4]
- 论语x1 | Chapter Rank #705The Analects of Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3]