Vocabulary: 曾国藩：中国式的入世禁欲
from 安身立命：大时代中的知识人
- 跄x2 | Chapter Rank #304walk rapidlystagger; sway from side to side
- 表率x1 | Chapter Rank #720example; model
- 清明x3 | Chapter Rank #190clear and bright; sober and calm; (of a government or administration) well orderedQingming or Pure Brightness, 5th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气[er4 shi2 si4 jie2 qi5] 5th-19th April; Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day (in early April)
- 理性x2 | Chapter Rank #305reason; rationality; rational
- 涵养x1 | Chapter Rank #721to cultivate (personal qualities); (of forests etc) to support; to provide a suitable environment for the replenishment of (natural resources: groundwater, animals, plants etc)
- 行为x3 | Chapter Rank #191action; conduct; behavior; activity
- 缺乏x2 | Chapter Rank #306to lack; to be short of
- 思想x1 | Chapter Rank #722thought; thinking; idea; ideology; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 改朝换代x1 | Chapter Rank #723to transition to a new dynasty or regime
- 称帝x1 | Chapter Rank #724to declare oneself emperor; to win the best actor award
- 气魄x1 | Chapter Rank #725spirit; boldness; positive outlook; imposing attitude
- 被x1 | Chapter Rank #726quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu : 3 you2] to "go on a trip")
- 志x1 | Chapter Rank #727aspiration; ambition; the willsign; mark; to record; to write a footnote
- 帝王x4 | Chapter Rank #122regent; monarch
- 士大夫x3 | Chapter Rank #192scholar officials
- 景仰x1 | Chapter Rank #728to admire; to revere; to look up to
- 阶层x1 | Chapter Rank #729social class
- 有心x1 | Chapter Rank #730to have a mind to; to intend to; deliberately; considerate
- 才俊x1 | Chapter Rank #731
- 纷纷x1 | Chapter Rank #732one after another; in succession; one by one; continuously; diverse; in profusion; numerous and confused; pell-mell
- 云集x1 | Chapter Rank #733to gather (in a crowd); to converge; to swarm
- 麾下x1 | Chapter Rank #734troops; subordinates; (honorific appellation for a general)
- 远古x1 | Chapter Rank #735antiquity; ancient times
- 然而x1 | Chapter Rank #736however; but; yet
- 精忠报国x1 | Chapter Rank #737
- 尽管x3 | Chapter Rank #193despite; although; even though; in spite of; unhesitatingly; do not hesitate (to ask, complain etc); (go ahead and do it) without hesitating
- 同治x1 | Chapter Rank #738reign name of Qing emperor (1861-1875)
- 仅x3 | Chapter Rank #194barely; only; merely
- 昙花一现x1 | Chapter Rank #739lit. the night-blooming cactus shows once; flash in the pan (idiom); short-lived
- 内忧外患x1 | Chapter Rank #740internal trouble and outside aggression (idiom); in a mess both domestically and abroad
- 始终x2 | Chapter Rank #307from beginning to end; all along
- 伴随x1 | Chapter Rank #741to accompany; to follow; to occur together with; concomitant
- 更x6 | Chapter Rank #56more; even more; further; still; still moreto change or replace; to experience; one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided; watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)
- 沮丧x1 | Chapter Rank #742dispirited; dejected; dismayed
- 之后x2 | Chapter Rank #308after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
- 反而x2 | Chapter Rank #309on the contrary; instead
- 世风日下x1 | Chapter Rank #743public morals are degenerating with each passing day (idiom)
- 紫禁城x1 | Chapter Rank #744the Forbidden City; the Imperial Palace in Beijing; same as 故宮|故宫[Gu4 gong1]
- 里x2 | Chapter Rank #310lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裏|里[li3]Li (surname)li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m; neighborhood; ancient administrative unit of 25 families; (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
- 颟顸x1 | Chapter Rank #745
- 迂腐x3 | Chapter Rank #195pedantic; trite; inflexible; adherence to old ideas
- 亲手x1 | Chapter Rank #746with one's own hands; personally
- 培植x2 | Chapter Rank #311to cultivate; to train; cultivation; training
- 攻下x1 | Chapter Rank #747
- 南京x1 | Chapter Rank #748see 南京市[Nan2 jing1 Shi4]; Nanjing, capital of the Ming dynasty (1368–1421) and of the Republic of China (1927–1937 and 1946–1949)
- 腐败x2 | Chapter Rank #312corruption; to corrupt; to rot; rotten
- 丛生x1 | Chapter Rank #749growing as a thicket; overgrown; breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc)
- 千夫指x1 | Chapter Rank #750
- 骂x1 | Chapter Rank #751to scold; to abuse; to curse; CL:通[tong4],頓|顿[dun4]
- 礼教x1 | Chapter Rank #752Confucian code of ethics