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
- 实在x2 | Chapter Rank #236really; actually; indeed; true; real; honest; dependable; (philosophy) reality
- 要求x1 | Chapter Rank #433to request; to require; requirement; to stake a claim; to ask; to demand; CL:點|点[dian3]
- 太x5 | Chapter Rank #63highest; greatest; too (much); very; extremely
- 高x2 | Chapter Rank #237surname Gaohigh; tall; above average; loud; your (honorific)
- 虽然x2 | Chapter Rank #238although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是[ke3 shi4] or 但是[dan4 shi4] etc)
- 为x27 | Chapter Rank #8as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice)because of; for; to
- 代x1 | Chapter Rank #434to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon
- 所x12 | Chapter Rank #24actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 心仪x2 | Chapter Rank #239to admire
- 但x15 | Chapter Rank #20but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just
- 每x3 | Chapter Rank #134each; every
- 一代x2 | Chapter Rank #240an era; an age; a generation
- 儒者x4 | Chapter Rank #87Confucian scholar
- 不免x1 | Chapter Rank #435inevitably
- 抱残守缺x1 | Chapter Rank #436to cherish the outmoded and preserve the outworn (idiom); conservative; stickler for tradition
- 三不朽x3 | Chapter Rank #135the three imperishables, three ways to distinguish oneself that aren't forgotten by history: through one's virtue 立德[li4 de2], one's service 立功[li4 gong1] and one's writings 立言[li4 yan2] (from the Zuo Zhuan 左傳|左传[Zuo3 Zhuan4])
- 伟业x2 | Chapter Rank #241exploit; great undertaking
- 令x4 | Chapter Rank #88to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make sth happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poemused in 脊令[ji2 ling2]; used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])classifier for a ream of paper
- 儒林x2 | Chapter Rank #242
- 士子x1 | Chapter Rank #437official; scholar (old)
- 无法x4 | Chapter Rank #89unable to; incapable of
- 三x4 | Chapter Rank #90surname Santhree; 3
- 全x4 | Chapter Rank #91surname Quanall; whole; entire; every; complete
- 终身x2 | Chapter Rank #243lifelong; all one's life; marriage
- 抱憾x1 | Chapter Rank #438
- 偏偏x3 | Chapter Rank #136(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
- 到x8 | Chapter Rank #35to reach; to arrive; to leave for; to go to; to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point); (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point); considerate; thoughtful; thorough
- 了x24 | Chapter Rank #11(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)to finish; (used with 得[de2] or 不[bu4] after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了[wang4 bu5 liao3] "cannot forget"); (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無|无[wu2] or 不[bu4]) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least(of eyes) bright; clear-sighted; to understand clearly
- 中华x1 | Chapter Rank #439Zhonghua, historical and cultural term for China, often used to denote Chinese civilization and identity (as in 中華文化|中华文化[Zhong1 hua2 wen2 hua4] "Chinese culture"); used in the official name of the Republic of China, 中華民國|中华民国[Zhong1 hua2 Min2 guo2]
- 帝国x3 | Chapter Rank #137empire; imperial
- 末世x3 | Chapter Rank #138last phase (of an age)
- 儒家文化x1 | Chapter Rank #440
- 大江东去x1 | Chapter Rank #441
- 前夕x1 | Chapter Rank #442eve; the day before
- 却x6 | Chapter Rank #47but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though
- 回光返照x1 | Chapter Rank #443final radiance of setting sun; fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise)
- 似的x1 | Chapter Rank #444seems as if; rather like; Taiwan pr. [si4 de5]
- 出x5 | Chapter Rank #64to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- 一x28 | Chapter Rank #7one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- 个x17 | Chapter Rank #17(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individualused in 自個兒|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5]
- 从x6 | Chapter Rank #48from; through; via; (bound form) to follow; (bound form) to obey; (bound form) to engage in (an activity); (used before a negative) ever; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer; attendant; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestorsurname Cong
- 完成x1 | Chapter Rank #445to complete; to accomplish
- 业绩x1 | Chapter Rank #446achievement; accomplishment; (in more recent usage) performance (of a business, employee etc); results
- 来x3 | Chapter Rank #139to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- 看x1 | Chapter Rank #447to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out forto look after; to take care of; to watch; to guard
- 确乎x1 | Chapter Rank #448really; indeed
- 前无古人x1 | Chapter Rank #449(idiom) unprecedented; unheard of
- 后无来者x1 | Chapter Rank #450
- 作为x5 | Chapter Rank #65one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be
- 晚清x5 | Chapter Rank #66the late Qing; late 19th and early 20th century China