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
- 可以x5 | Chapter Rank #179can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good
- 坚守x3 | Chapter Rank #349to hold fast to; to stick to
- 绝不x1 | Chapter Rank #1387in no way; not in the least; absolutely not
- 整部书x1 | Chapter Rank #1388
- 分为x1 | Chapter Rank #1389to divide sth into (parts); to subdivide
- 两篇x1 | Chapter Rank #1390
- 篇x2 | Chapter Rank #583sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old); classifier for written items: chapter, article
- 务本x1 | Chapter Rank #1391
- 正x2 | Chapter Rank #584first month of the lunar yearstraight; upright; proper; main; principal; to correct; to rectify; exactly; just (at that time); right (in that place); (math.) positive
- 人心x5 | Chapter Rank #180popular feeling; the will of the people
- 不变x3 | Chapter Rank #350constant; unvarying; (math.) invariant
- 外篇x2 | Chapter Rank #585
- 务x1 | Chapter Rank #1392affair; business; matter; to be engaged in; to attend to; by all means
- 通x1 | Chapter Rank #1393to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etcclassifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)
- 开x2 | Chapter Rank #586to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start; to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run; to boil; to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc); (directional complement) away; off; carat (gold); abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2]; abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format
- 风气x1 | Chapter Rank #1394general mood; atmosphere; common practice
- 逐条x1 | Chapter Rank #1395
- 论述x1 | Chapter Rank #1396treatise; discourse; exposition
- 途径x1 | Chapter Rank #1397way; means; channel
- 戊戌维新x1 | Chapter Rank #1398Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
- 当中x2 | Chapter Rank #587among; in the middle; in the center
- 究竟x1 | Chapter Rank #1399to go to the bottom of a matter; after all; when all is said and done; (in an interrogative sentence) finally; outcome; result
- 激进x3 | Chapter Rank #351radical; extreme; extremist
- 保守x2 | Chapter Rank #588conservative; to guard; to keep
- 鼓励x1 | Chapter Rank #1400to encourage
- 出国x1 | Chapter Rank #1401to go abroad; to leave the country
- 出洋x1 | Chapter Rank #1402to go abroad (old)
- 胜x1 | Chapter Rank #1403victory; success; to beat; to defeat; to surpass; victorious; superior to; to get the better of; better than; surpassing; superb (of vista); beautiful (scenery); wonderful (view); (Taiwan pr. [sheng1]) able to bear; equal to (a task)
- 五x2 | Chapter Rank #589five; 5
- 类x1 | Chapter Rank #1404kind; type; class; category; (classifier) kind; type; (bound form) to resemble; to be similar to
- 语x2 | Chapter Rank #590dialect; language; speech(literary) to tell; to let (sb) know
- 先x4 | Chapter Rank #247beforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now; (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
- 功夫x1 | Chapter Rank #1405skill; art; kung fu; labor; effort
- 深x1 | Chapter Rank #1406(lit. and fig.) deep
- 不配x1 | Chapter Rank #1407
- 两道x1 | Chapter Rank #1408
- 陈旧x1 | Chapter Rank #1409old-fashioned; out of date; obsolete; antiquated
- 器物x1 | Chapter Rank #1410implement; utensil; article; object
- 法制x1 | Chapter Rank #1411legal system and institutionsmade in France
- 明晓x1 | Chapter Rank #1412
- 玄妙x1 | Chapter Rank #1413mysterious; profound; abstruse
- 了解x1 | Chapter Rank #1414to understand; to realize; to find out
- 降x1 | Chapter Rank #1415to surrender; to capitulate; to subdue; to conquer; to tameto drop; to fall; to come down; to descend
- 理x12 | Chapter Rank #55texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up
- 争x1 | Chapter Rank #1416to strive for; to vie for; to argue or debate; deficient or lacking (dialect); how or what (literary)
- 重x11 | Chapter Rank #65heavy; serious; to attach importance toto repeat; repetition; again; re-; classifier: layer
- 两派x1 | Chapter Rank #1417
- 咸丰x1 | Chapter Rank #1418Xianfeng (1831-1861), reign name of Qing emperor, reigned from 1850-1861; Xianfeng County in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州[En1 shi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Hubei
- 理学x1 | Chapter Rank #1419scienceSchool of Principle; Neo-Confucian Rationalistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Cheng Hao 程顥|程颢[Cheng2 Hao4], Cheng Yi 程頤|程颐[Cheng2 Yi2] and Zhu Xi 朱熹[Zhu1 xi1])
- 名臣x1 | Chapter Rank #1420important official or statesman (in feudal China)