- to experience; to go through; experience (CL:段[duan4],次[ci4])
- May Fourth Movement; Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles
- baptism (lit. or fig.)
- lifetime; generation; group of people; class; classifier for generations; (literary) classifier for people
- one's elders; older generation
- 人大 Rén dà: 人大 Ren2 da4: Renmin University of China (abbr. for 中國人民大學|中国人民大学[Zhong1 guo2 Ren2 min2 Da4 xue2])人大 rén dà: 人大 ren2 da4: people's congress, a legislative body within the PRC's system of government at any of various levels – national, provincial, municipal, county or township (abbr. for 人民代表大會|人民代表大会[ren2 min2 dai4 biao3 da4 hui4])
- 好 hǎo: 好 hao3: good; 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好 hào: 好 hao4: to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
- 通 tòng: 通 tong4: classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)通 tōng: 通 tong1: to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
- 难 nán: 难 nan2: difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good难 nàn: 难 nan4: disaster; distress; to scold
- (formal) to apply; to carry out; to take action to (do sth) (used before a disyllabic verb, indicating that the action is directed at sth previously mentioned, e.g. 加以說明|加以说明[jia1 yi3 shuo1 ming2]); to apply (restrictions etc); to give (support, consideration etc); (literary) moreover; in addition
- definition; to delimit
- to divide up the work; division of labor
- equivalent to; appropriate; considerably; to a certain extent; fairly; quite
- clear-cut; definite; explicit; to clarify; to specify; to make definite
- philosopher
- Feng Youlan (1895-1990), distinguished Chinese philosopher
- 贺 Hè: 贺 He4: surname He贺 hè: 贺 he4: to congratulate
- see 麒麟[qi2 lin2]
- historian
- Fei Xiaotong (1910-2005), Chinese sociologist
- writer; man of letters; CL:個|个[ge4]
- Zhu Ziqing (1898-1948), poet and essayist
- Wen Yiduo (1899-1946), poet and patriotic fighter, executed by Guomindang in Kunming
- Ba Jin (1904–2005), novelist, author of the trilogy 家春秋[Jia1 Chun1 Qiu1]
- Bing Xin (1900-1999), female poet and children's writer
- to lean against or on; to stand by the side of; to come near to; to depend on; to trust; to fuck (vulgar); traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old)
- well-known for sth; to become well known; to make one's mark; to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc)
- reputation; prestige; public esteem
- to limit; to confine; to restrict sth within set boundaries
- among insiders; within the community (of publishers, cyclists or cosplayers etc); (esp.) in show business circles
- to put out; to issue
- a series of; a string of
- example; model case
- literature
- peak; summit; height
- to contribute; to dedicate; to devote; contribution; CL:個|个[ge4]
- evening; night; late
- some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er
- to seep in; to influence; to nurture; influence; training
- born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate); born under an unlucky star; ahead of his time
- about to; on the point of; soon
- a succession of; a series of
- to delay; to hold up; to waste time; to interfere with