Vocabulary: 入世与出世——进退维谷的两难困境
from 安身立命:大时代中的知识人
- 不得已x3 | Chapter Rank #347to act against one's will; to have no alternative but to; to have to; to have no choice; must
- 渴慕x1 | Chapter Rank #1364to thirst for
- 安定x1 | Chapter Rank #1365stable; calm; settled; to stabilize; Valium; diazepam
- 度过x1 | Chapter Rank #1366to pass; to spend (time); to survive; to get through
- 生涯x3 | Chapter Rank #348career; life (way in which sb lives); period of one's life
- 偏偏x1 | Chapter Rank #1367(indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened; (indicating that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly; contrarily; against reason; (indicating that sb or a group is singled out) precisely; only; of all people
- 推x1 | Chapter Rank #1368to push; to cut; to refuse; to reject; to decline; to shirk (responsibility); to put off; to delay; to push forward; to nominate; to elect; massage
- 前台x1 | Chapter Rank #1369stage; proscenium; foreground in politics etc (sometimes derog.); front desk; reception desk; (computing) front-end; foreground
- 恋恋不舍x1 | Chapter Rank #1370reluctant to part
- 告别x1 | Chapter Rank #1371to leave; to part from; to bid farewell to; to say goodbye to
- 本业x1 | Chapter Rank #1372business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying); original business; core business; (literary) agriculture
- 违心x1 | Chapter Rank #1373false; untrue to one's convictions; against one's will; disloyal
- 陌生x1 | Chapter Rank #1374strange; unfamiliar
- 退隐x1 | Chapter Rank #1375to withdraw from the fray and live in seclusion; to retire
- 归x1 | Chapter Rank #1376to return; to go back to; to give back to; (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by; to belong to; to gather together; (used between two identical verbs) despite; to marry (of a woman) (old); division on the abacus with a one-digit divisorsurname Gui
- 那种x2 | Chapter Rank #586that kind of
- 完成x1 | Chapter Rank #1377to complete; to accomplish
- 历史使命x1 | Chapter Rank #1378
- 凯旋x1 | Chapter Rank #1379to return in triumph; to return victorious
- 般地x1 | Chapter Rank #1380
- 功成身退x1 | Chapter Rank #1381
- 恰恰相反x2 | Chapter Rank #587just the opposite
- 而是x2 | Chapter Rank #588rather
- 受到x1 | Chapter Rank #1382to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc); to be ...ed (praised, educated, punished etc)
- 严重x1 | Chapter Rank #1383grave; serious; severe; critical
- 内耗x1 | Chapter Rank #1384internal friction; internal dissipation of energy (in mechanics); fig. waste or discord within an organization
- 带x10 | Chapter Rank #80band; belt; girdle; ribbon; tire; area; zone; region; CL:條|条[tiao2]; to wear; to carry; to take along; to bear (i.e. to have); to lead; to bring; to look after; to raise
- 淌x1 | Chapter Rank #1385to drip; to trickle; to shed (tears)
- 血x1 | Chapter Rank #1386see 血[xue4]blood; colloquial pr. [xie3]; CL:滴[di1],片[pian4]
- 创伤x2 | Chapter Rank #589wound; injury; trauma
- 境遇x1 | Chapter Rank #1387circumstance
- 凄然x1 | Chapter Rank #1388distressed
- 宋代x1 | Chapter Rank #1389Song dynasty (960-1279)
- 范仲淹x1 | Chapter Rank #1390Fan Zhongyan (989–1052), Song dynasty scholar and politician, author of On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记[Yue4 yang2 Lou2 Ji4]
- 名言x1 | Chapter Rank #1391saying; famous remark
- 居x1 | Chapter Rank #1392surname Ju(archaic) sentence-final particle expressing a doubting attitudeto reside; to be (in a certain position); to store up; to be at a standstill; residence; house; restaurant; classifier for bedrooms
- 庙堂x1 | Chapter Rank #1393imperial ancestral temple; imperial court; temple
- 高x1 | Chapter Rank #1394surname Gaohigh; tall; above average; loud; your (honorific)
- 忧x5 | Chapter Rank #161to worry; to concern oneself with; worried; anxiety; sorrow; (literary) to observe mourning
- 民x2 | Chapter Rank #590(bound form) the people; inhabitants of a countrysurname Min
- 处x2 | Chapter Rank #591(bound form) place; locality; (bound form) part; aspect; (bound form) office; department; bureau; classifier for locations: spot, pointto reside; to live; to dwell; to be in; to be situated at; to stay; to get along with; to be in a position of; to deal with; to discipline; to punish
- 远x2 | Chapter Rank #592far; distant; remote; (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc)to distance oneself from (classical)
- 君x2 | Chapter Rank #593monarch; lord; gentleman; ruler
- 句x1 | Chapter Rank #1395sentence; clause; phrase; classifier for phrases or lines of verse
- 改成x1 | Chapter Rank #1396to convert; to turn into (sth else); to adapt (a story to another medium)
- 何尝x1 | Chapter Rank #1397(rhetorical question) when?; how?; it's not that...
- 写照x1 | Chapter Rank #1398portrayal
- 辗转反侧x1 | Chapter Rank #1399to toss and turn restlessly (in the bed)
- 释放x1 | Chapter Rank #1400to release; to set free; to liberate (a prisoner); to discharge
- 因x4 | Chapter Rank #226cause; reason; because