Vocabulary: 张之洞：生于末世的一代儒臣
from 安身立命：大时代中的知识人
- 实现x1 | Chapter Rank #1006to achieve; to implement; to realize; to bring about
- 不了x1 | Chapter Rank #1007no thanks (used to politely but informally decline)(as a resultative verb suffix) unable to (do sth); (pattern: {verb} + 個|个[ge5] + ~) without end; incessantly
- 富强x8 | Chapter Rank #97rich and powerful
- 竞争x2 | Chapter Rank #475to compete; competition
- 世界x2 | Chapter Rank #476world
- 正是x1 | Chapter Rank #1008is precisely
- 生存x4 | Chapter Rank #218to exist; to survive
- 本x3 | Chapter Rank #318(bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this; (bound form) this; the current (year etc); (bound form) original; (bound form) inherent; originally; initially; capital; principal; classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
- 开始x1 | Chapter Rank #1009to begin; beginning; to start; initial; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 两广总督x1 | Chapter Rank #1010Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi
- 湖广x1 | Chapter Rank #1011Hubei and Hunan provinces (a Ming dynasty province)
- 总督x7 | Chapter Rank #111governor-general; viceroy; governor
- 多年x2 | Chapter Rank #477many years; for many years; longstanding
- 生涯x1 | Chapter Rank #1012career; life (way in which sb lives); period of one's life
- 高谈阔论x1 | Chapter Rank #1013to harangue; loud arrogant talk; to spout
- 变为x1 | Chapter Rank #1014to change into
- 注重x2 | Chapter Rank #478to pay attention to; to emphasize
- 特别x5 | Chapter Rank #164unusual; special; very; especially; particularly; expressly; for a specific purpose; (often followed by 是[shi4]) in particular
- 督x2 | Chapter Rank #479(bound form) to supervise
- 鄂x1 | Chapter Rank #1015surname E; short name for Hubei 湖北[Hu2 bei3]
- 里x1 | Chapter Rank #1016lining; 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
- 视x3 | Chapter Rank #319(literary, or bound form) to look at
- 武汉x3 | Chapter Rank #320see 武漢市|武汉市[Wu3 han4 Shi4]
- 第二x1 | Chapter Rank #1017second; number two; next; secondary
- 故乡x1 | Chapter Rank #1018home; homeland; native place; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 大力x1 | Chapter Rank #1019energetically; vigorously
- 施展x1 | Chapter Rank #1020to use fully; to put to use
- 湖北x5 | Chapter Rank #165see 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3]
- 新政x10 | Chapter Rank #71new policy; New Deal (Roosevelt's 1933 policy to deal with the Great Depression)
- 后来居上x1 | Chapter Rank #1021(idiom) see 後來者居上|后来者居上[hou4 lai2 zhe3 ju1 shang4]
- 原本x2 | Chapter Rank #480originally; the original; original copy; original version
- 落后x1 | Chapter Rank #1022to fall behind; to lag (in technology etc); backward; to retrogress
- 打x1 | Chapter Rank #1023a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")(loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]
- 造成x1 | Chapter Rank #1024to bring about; to create; to cause
- 仅次于x2 | Chapter Rank #481second only to ...; ranking behind only ...
- 上海x8 | Chapter Rank #98Shanghai municipality (short name 滬|沪[Hu4])
- 重镇x1 | Chapter Rank #1025(military) strategic town; (fig.) major center (for commerce, culture or tourism etc)
- 出名x2 | Chapter Rank #482well-known for sth; to become well known; to make one's mark; to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc)
- 汉阳x1 | Chapter Rank #1026see 漢陽區|汉阳区[Han4 yang2 Qu1]
- 兵工厂x1 | Chapter Rank #1027munitions factory
- 生产x1 | Chapter Rank #1028to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child
- 枪炮x1 | Chapter Rank #1029firearm
- 其x5 | Chapter Rank #166his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it)
- 质量x1 | Chapter Rank #1030(physics) mass; quality (i.e. degree of excellence); quality and quantity
- 数量x1 | Chapter Rank #1031amount; quantity; quantitative; (math.) scalar quantity
- 天津x1 | Chapter Rank #1032Tianjin municipality (short name 津[Jin1])
- 之上x1 | Chapter Rank #1033above
- 这个x8 | Chapter Rank #99(pronoun) this; (adjective) this
- 华中x1 | Chapter Rank #1034central China
- 通衢x1 | Chapter Rank #1035