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
- 望x2 | Chapter Rank #378full moon; to hope; to expect; to visit; to gaze (into the distance); to look towards; towards15th day of month (lunar calendar)
- 从政x1 | Chapter Rank #1097to be engaged in politics (esp. as a government official)
- 史x1 | Chapter Rank #1098surname Shihistory; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China
- 留下x1 | Chapter Rank #1099to leave behind; to stay behind; to remain; to keep; not to let (sb) go
- 污点x1 | Chapter Rank #1100stain; taint
- 杀x1 | Chapter Rank #1101to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely
- 韦x1 | Chapter Rank #1102surname Weisoft leather
- 俊x1 | Chapter Rank #1103(dialectal pronunciation of 俊[jun4]); cool; neatsmart; eminent; handsome; talented
- 包庇x1 | Chapter Rank #1104to shield; to harbor; to cover up
- 九x1 | Chapter Rank #1105nine; 9
- 弟x1 | Chapter Rank #1106younger brother; junior male; I (modest word in letter)
- 曾国荃x1 | Chapter Rank #1107
- 出自x1 | Chapter Rank #1108to come from
- 一己之私x1 | Chapter Rank #1109
- 公德x1 | Chapter Rank #1110public ethics; social morality
- 私德x3 | Chapter Rank #221
- 大x5 | Chapter Rank #82see 大夫[dai4 fu5]big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- 愧x1 | Chapter Rank #1111ashamed
- 看重x1 | Chapter Rank #1112to regard as important; to value
- 免俗x1 | Chapter Rank #1113
- 违心x1 | Chapter Rank #1114false; untrue to one's convictions; against one's will; disloyal
- 外x1 | Chapter Rank #1115outside; in addition; foreign; external
- 惭x1 | Chapter Rank #1116ashamed
- 清议x1 | Chapter Rank #1117fair criticism; just comment
- 内疚x1 | Chapter Rank #1118guilty conscience; to feel a twinge of guilt
- 神明x1 | Chapter Rank #1119deities; gods
- 遑论x1 | Chapter Rank #1120let alone; not to mention
- 利之徒x2 | Chapter Rank #379
- 绝对x2 | Chapter Rank #380absolute; unconditional
- 无疑x1 | Chapter Rank #1121undoubtedly; without doubt; for sure
- 失乐园x1 | Chapter Rank #1122
- 利害关系x2 | Chapter Rank #381stake; vital interest; concern
- 害x2 | Chapter Rank #382to do harm to; to cause trouble to; harm; evil; calamity
- 难能可贵x1 | Chapter Rank #1123rare and precious; valuable; remarkable
- 只要x1 | Chapter Rank #1124so long as; provided; if
- 公x2 | Chapter Rank #383public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)
- 利益x1 | Chapter Rank #1125benefit; (in sb's) interest; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 私利x1 | Chapter Rank #1126personal gain; (one's own) selfish interest
- 便x1 | Chapter Rank #1127plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就[jiu4]: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwardsused in 便宜[pian2 yi5]; used in 便便[pian2 pian2]; used in 便嬛[pian2 xuan1]
- 毫不含糊x1 | Chapter Rank #1128
- 舍利x1 | Chapter Rank #1129(Buddhism) relic found in the cremated ashes of Buddhists (from Sanskrit "śarīra")
- 取义x1 | Chapter Rank #1130
- 握有x1 | Chapter Rank #1131to have; to hold (usu. sth abstract: power, distribution rights, a bargaining chip etc)
- 近乎x1 | Chapter Rank #1132close to; intimate
- 拒斥x1 | Chapter Rank #1133to reject
- 哪怕x1 | Chapter Rank #1134even; even if; even though; no matter how
- 相对x1 | Chapter Rank #1135relatively; opposite; to resist; to oppose; relative; vis-a-vis; counterpart
- 委实x1 | Chapter Rank #1136indeed; really (very much so)
- 罕见x1 | Chapter Rank #1137rare; rarely seen
- 不易x1 | Chapter Rank #1138not easy to do sth; difficult; unchanging