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
- 三千x1 | Chapter Rank #763
- 未有x1 | Chapter Rank #764is not; has never been; never occurring; unprecedented
- 之x86 | Chapter Rank #4(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]); him; her; it
- 大变局x1 | Chapter Rank #765
- 降临x1 | Chapter Rank #766to descend; to arrive; to come
- 本来x5 | Chapter Rank #153original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course
- 饱读x2 | Chapter Rank #393to read intensively
- 四书五经x1 | Chapter Rank #767
- 儒生x2 | Chapter Rank #394Confucian scholar (old)
- 们x3 | Chapter Rank #271plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals
- 崭露头角x1 | Chapter Rank #768to reveal outstanding talent (idiom); to stand out as conspicuously brilliant
- 机会x3 | Chapter Rank #272opportunity; chance; occasion; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 乱世x3 | Chapter Rank #273the world in chaos; troubled times; (in Buddhism) the mortal world
- 英雄x2 | Chapter Rank #395hero; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 它x4 | Chapter Rank #196itit (pronoun for an animal)
- 成就x1 | Chapter Rank #769accomplishment; success; achievement; CL:個|个[ge4]; to achieve (a result); to create; to bring about
- 达到x1 | Chapter Rank #770to reach; to achieve; to attain
- 无法x2 | Chapter Rank #396unable to; incapable of
- 企及x1 | Chapter Rank #771to hope to reach; to strive for
- 高度x2 | Chapter Rank #397height; altitude; elevation; high degree; highly; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 天生x2 | Chapter Rank #398nature; disposition; innate; natural
- 聪颖x1 | Chapter Rank #772smart; intelligent
- 块x1 | Chapter Rank #773lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units
- 读书x6 | Chapter Rank #127to read a book; to study; to attend school
- 好x5 | Chapter Rank #154to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone togood; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello
- 材料x1 | Chapter Rank #774(raw) material; data; (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job
- 考试x1 | Chapter Rank #775to take an exam; exam; CL:次[ci4]
- 岁x7 | Chapter Rank #105years oldclassifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests)
- 秀才x1 | Chapter Rank #776a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical); scholar; skillful writer; fine talent
- 顺天x1 | Chapter Rank #777
- 乡试x2 | Chapter Rank #399the triennial provincial imperial exam during the Ming and Qing
- 拔x1 | Chapter Rank #778to pull up; to pull out; to draw out by suction; to select; to pick; to stand out (above level); to surpass; to seize
- 头筹x1 | Chapter Rank #779
- 解元x1 | Chapter Rank #780first-placed candidate in the provincial imperial examinations (old)
- 身份x3 | Chapter Rank #274identity; aspect of one's identity (e.g. mayor, father, permanent resident); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as ..." 以[yi3] + ... + 的身份[de5 shen1 fen4]); status (social, legal etc); position; rank
- 中举x2 | Chapter Rank #400to pass the provincial level imperial examination
- 殿试x3 | Chapter Rank #275court examination, the top grade imperial exam
- 甲x2 | Chapter Rank #401first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old); ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
- 第三名x1 | Chapter Rank #781
- 俗称x1 | Chapter Rank #782commonly referred to as; common term
- 探花x3 | Chapter Rank #276candidate who came third in the Hanlin examination (cf. 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2]); (slang) to secretly film sex with a prostitute to share on the Internet
- 要不是x1 | Chapter Rank #783if it were not for; but for
- 之后x13 | Chapter Rank #47after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
- 两x8 | Chapter Rank #93two; both; some; a few; tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jin1] (old)
- 科x1 | Chapter Rank #784branch of study; administrative section; division; field; branch; stage directions; family (taxonomy); rules; laws; to mete out (punishment); to levy (taxes etc); to fine sb; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 会试x1 | Chapter Rank #785metropolitan examination (imperial civil service examination)
- 因为x3 | Chapter Rank #277because; owing to; on account of
- 考官x1 | Chapter Rank #786an examiner (for tests, interviews etc); (old) imperial examination official
- 族兄x2 | Chapter Rank #402
- 不得不x3 | Chapter Rank #278have no choice or option but to; cannot but; have to; can't help it; can't avoid