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
- 低x2 | Chapter Rank #417low; beneath; to lower (one's head); to let droop; to hang down; to incline
- 廪x1 | Chapter Rank #805government granary
- 生x2 | Chapter Rank #418to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire); to live; to be alive; life; raw; uncooked; unprocessed; unfamiliar; strange; (bound form) student; person engaged in a field; (bound form) male role in traditional opera; (bound form) life; lifetime; (bound form) means of livelihood; (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]); (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- 至于x1 | Chapter Rank #806as for; as to; to go so far as to
- 半x1 | Chapter Rank #807half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
- 辈x1 | Chapter Rank #808lifetime; generation; group of people; class; classifier for generations; (literary) classifier for people
- 更是x1 | Chapter Rank #809even more (so)
- 屡屡x3 | Chapter Rank #283again and again; repeatedly
- 非x2 | Chapter Rank #419abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africato not be; not; wrong; incorrect; non-; un-; in-; de-; to reproach; to blame; (coll.) to insist on; simply must
- 人x27 | Chapter Rank #17person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- 资格x2 | Chapter Rank #420qualifications; seniority
- 骄傲x1 | Chapter Rank #810pride; arrogance; conceited; proud of sth
- 自视甚高x2 | Chapter Rank #421to think highly of oneself (idiom); giving oneself airs; arrogant and self-important
- 用人x1 | Chapter Rank #811servant; to employ sb for a job; to manage people; to be in need of staff
- 标准x1 | Chapter Rank #812standard; norm; criterion; (adjective) standard; good; correct; conforming to a standard
- 十分x1 | Chapter Rank #813very; completely; utterly; extremely; absolutely; hundred percent; to divide into ten equal parts
- 苛刻x1 | Chapter Rank #814harsh; severe; demanding
- 首x3 | Chapter Rank #284head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc
- 看x5 | Chapter Rank #158to look after; to take care of; to watch; to guardto 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 for
- 门第x1 | Chapter Rank #815family status
- 次x1 | Chapter Rank #816next in sequence; second; the second (day, time etc); secondary; vice-; sub-; infra-; inferior quality; substandard; order; sequence; hypo- (chemistry); classifier for enumerated events: time
- 科甲x1 | Chapter Rank #817imperial examinations
- 再选x1 | Chapter Rank #818
- 经书x1 | Chapter Rank #819classic books in Confucianism; scriptures; sutras
- 儒学x2 | Chapter Rank #422Confucianism
- 名士x3 | Chapter Rank #285(old) a person of literary talent; a celebrity (esp. a distinguished literary person having no official post)
- 眼中x1 | Chapter Rank #820in (sb's) eyes
- 只有x3 | Chapter Rank #286only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才[cai2]) it is only if ... (that one can ...) (as in 只有通過治療才能痊愈|只有通过治疗才能痊愈[zhi3 you3 tong1 guo4 zhi4 liao2 cai2 neng2 quan2 yu4] "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only (someone) who ... (as in 只有男性才有此需要[zhi3 you3 nan2 xing4 cai2 you3 ci3 xu1 yao4] "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to express lack of alternatives) can only; have no choice but to (as in 只有屈服[zhi3 you3 qu1 fu2] "the only thing you can do is give in")
- 两种x2 | Chapter Rank #423
- 种x13 | Chapter Rank #48seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sortsto plant; to grow; to cultivate
- 看得起x2 | Chapter Rank #424to show respect for; to think highly of
- 看不起x3 | Chapter Rank #287to look down upon; to despise
- 虚怀若谷x1 | Chapter Rank #821receptive as an echoing canyon (idiom); modest and open-minded
- 不问x2 | Chapter Rank #425to pay no attention to; to disregard; to ignore; to let go unpunished; to let off
- 广x1 | Chapter Rank #822"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etcsurname Guangwide; numerous; to spread
- 招x1 | Chapter Rank #823to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess
- 天下x4 | Chapter Rank #201land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule
- 于x8 | Chapter Rank #94surname Yuto go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle(of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by
- 幕府x1 | Chapter Rank #824(orig.) tents forming the offices of a commanding officer; administration of a military government; (medieval Japan) "bakufu", administration of the shogun
- 之中x2 | Chapter Rank #426inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during
- 形成x3 | Chapter Rank #288to form; to take shape
- 鲜明x1 | Chapter Rank #825(of colors) bright; fresh and clear; clear-cut; distinct
- 对比x1 | Chapter Rank #826to contrast; contrast; ratio; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 京x4 | Chapter Rank #202capital city of a country; big; algebraic term for a large number (old); artificial mound (old)surname Jing; short name for Beijing 北京[Bei3 jing1]; Gin or Jing, ethnic minority of China, descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living mainly in Guangxi; Kinh, the ethnic majority in Vietnam
- 做x2 | Chapter Rank #427to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)
- 几年x1 | Chapter Rank #827a few years; several years; how many years?
- 闲官x1 | Chapter Rank #828
- 同治x3 | Chapter Rank #289reign name of Qing emperor (1861-1875)
- 光绪年间x1 | Chapter Rank #829
- 官场x3 | Chapter Rank #290officialdom; bureaucracy