Vocabulary: 帝都与魔都：现代中国的城市知识分子（1900—1937年）
from 安身立命：大时代中的知识人
- 才华x1 | Chapter Rank #1852talent; CL:份[fen4]
- 勤奋x1 | Chapter Rank #1853hardworking; diligent
- 上海滩x3 | Chapter Rank #666
- 各种各样x1 | Chapter Rank #1854various kinds; all sorts
- 报纸x4 | Chapter Rank #497newspaper; newsprint; CL:份[fen4],期[qi1],張|张[zhang1]
- 志x4 | Chapter Rank #498aspiration; ambition; the willsign; mark; to record; to write a footnote
- 写稿x1 | Chapter Rank #1855
- 为生x2 | Chapter Rank #1002to make a living
- 打零工x2 | Chapter Rank #1003
- 经常性x2 | Chapter Rank #1004
- 跳槽x1 | Chapter Rank #1856to leave one's job to take up a position elsewhere
- 异乡x1 | Chapter Rank #1857foreign land; a place far from home
- 大多x1 | Chapter Rank #1858for the most part; many; most; the greater part; mostly
- 安分守己x1 | Chapter Rank #1859to be content with one's lot (idiom); to know one's place
- 想入非非x1 | Chapter Rank #1860to indulge in fantasy (idiom); to let one's imagination run wild
- 野心x1 | Chapter Rank #1861ambition; wild schemes; careerism
- 梦想x1 | Chapter Rank #1862(fig.) to dream of; dream
- 仇恨x1 | Chapter Rank #1863to hate; hatred; enmity; hostility
- 异己x2 | Chapter Rank #1005dissident; alien; outsider; non-self; others
- 资本主义x6 | Chapter Rank #321capitalism
- 宰制x1 | Chapter Rank #1864to rule; to dominate
- 倾向x3 | Chapter Rank #667trend; tendency; orientation
- 激进x3 | Chapter Rank #668radical; extreme; extremist
- 左翼x3 | Chapter Rank #669left-wing (political)
- 崇拜x1 | Chapter Rank #1865to worship; adoration
- 鲁迅x1 | Chapter Rank #1866Lu Xun (1881-1936), one of the earliest and best-known modern Chinese writers
- 魅力x1 | Chapter Rank #1867charm; fascination; glamor; charisma
- 联盟x2 | Chapter Rank #1006alliance; union; coalition
- 吸引x2 | Chapter Rank #1007to attract; to appeal to; to fascinate
- 泾渭分明x1 | Chapter Rank #1868as rivers Jing and Wei separate clearly (idiom); to be entirely different
- 二者之间x1 | Chapter Rank #1869
- 暴x1 | Chapter Rank #1870surname Baosudden; violent; cruel; to show or expose; to injure
- 大名x1 | Chapter Rank #1871see 大名縣|大名县[Da4 ming2 Xian4]famous name; your distinguished name; one's formal personal name; (Japanese history) daimyo
- 出人头地x1 | Chapter Rank #1872to stand out among one's peers (idiom); to excel
- 步入x1 | Chapter Rank #1873to step into; to enter
- 一旦x1 | Chapter Rank #1874in case (sth happens); if; once (sth happens, then...); when; in a short time; in one day
- 解雇x1 | Chapter Rank #1875to fire; to sack; to dismiss; to terminate employment
- 穷困潦倒x1 | Chapter Rank #1876(idiom) to live in poverty and despair; down and out; destitute and without hope
- 只能x1 | Chapter Rank #1877can only; obliged to do sth; to have no other choice
- 爬格子x2 | Chapter Rank #1008(oral) to write (esp. for a living); to spell out laboriously on squared paper
- 反叛x3 | Chapter Rank #670to rebel; to revolt
- 在生活上x1 | Chapter Rank #1878
- 俘虏x1 | Chapter Rank #1879captive
- 同化x1 | Chapter Rank #1880assimilation (cultural, digestive, phonemic etc)
- 安逸x1 | Chapter Rank #1881easy and comfortable; easy
- 国立x2 | Chapter Rank #1009national; state-run; public
- 饭碗x1 | Chapter Rank #1882rice bowl; fig. livelihood; job; way of making a living
- 保障x1 | Chapter Rank #1883to ensure; to guarantee; to safeguard
- 率性x1 | Chapter Rank #1884to act naturally, authentically and spontaneously (whether seen as admirable – "bold" – or problematic – "impulsive")
- 叛x1 | Chapter Rank #1885to betray; to rebel; to revolt