Vocabulary: 袁氏五姊妹寄语读者
from 百年袁家：袁世凯及杨氏夫人后裔百年家族史
- 国民党x1 | Chapter Rank #615Guomindang or Kuomintang (KMT); Nationalist Party
- 腐败无能x1 | Chapter Rank #616
- 左x4 | Chapter Rank #86surname Zuoleft; the Left (politics); east; unorthodox; queer; wrong; differing; opposite
- 阶段x1 | Chapter Rank #617stage; section; phase; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 苦难x1 | Chapter Rank #618suffering
- 终于x1 | Chapter Rank #619at last; in the end; finally; eventually
- 迎来x1 | Chapter Rank #620to welcome (a visitor or newcomer); (fig.) to usher in
- 美好x1 | Chapter Rank #621beautiful; fine
- 年代x3 | Chapter Rank #119a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 之所以x1 | Chapter Rank #622(after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P; Example: 我之所以討厭他|我之所以讨厌他[wo3 zhi1 suo3 yi3 tao3 yan4 ta1] "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)"
- 编写x1 | Chapter Rank #623to compile
- 本书x2 | Chapter Rank #221
- 通过x1 | Chapter Rank #624to pass through; to get through; to adopt (a resolution); to pass (legislation); to pass (a test); by means of; through; via
- 四代x1 | Chapter Rank #625
- 道x1 | Chapter Rank #626road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]); (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization; (Daoism) the Way; the Dao; to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel); (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words); classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division)
- 出x2 | Chapter Rank #222to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- 变迁x2 | Chapter Rank #223changes; vicissitudes
- 让x1 | Chapter Rank #627to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])
- 后代x2 | Chapter Rank #224descendant; progeny; posterity; later ages; later generations
- 懂得x1 | Chapter Rank #628to understand; to know; to comprehend
- 坚持x1 | Chapter Rank #629to persevere with; to persist in; to insist on
- 什么x5 | Chapter Rank #56what?; something; anything
- 选择x1 | Chapter Rank #630to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative
- 信守x1 | Chapter Rank #631to abide by; to keep (promises etc)
- 珍惜x1 | Chapter Rank #632to treasure; to value; to cherish
- 下一代x1 | Chapter Rank #633the next generation
- 第四代x4 | Chapter Rank #87
- 一支x1 | Chapter Rank #634
- 而言x1 | Chapter Rank #635(typically preceded by 就…[jiu4 xx5] or 對…|对…[dui4 xx5] etc) as far as ... is concerned; speaking in terms of ...
- 年龄x1 | Chapter Rank #636(a person's) age; CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4]
- 些x1 | Chapter Rank #637classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several
- 坎坷x1 | Chapter Rank #638(of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
- 下过x1 | Chapter Rank #639
- 乡x1 | Chapter Rank #640country or countryside; native place; home village or town; township (PRC administrative unit)
- 遭x1 | Chapter Rank #641to meet by chance (usually with misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
- 批x1 | Chapter Rank #642to ascertain; to act on; to criticize; to pass on; classifier for batches, lots, military flights; tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges)
- 挨过x1 | Chapter Rank #643
- 斗x1 | Chapter Rank #644abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星[Bei3 dou3 xing1]dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[sheng1] or one-tenth of a 石[dan4]; decaliter; peck; cup or dipper shaped objectto fight; to struggle; to condemn; to censure; to contend; to put together; coming together
- 没x1 | Chapter Rank #645(negative prefix for verbs) have not; notdrowned; to end; to die; to inundate
- 享x1 | Chapter Rank #646to enjoy; to benefit; to have the use of
- 福x1 | Chapter Rank #647surname Fu; abbr. for Fujian province 福建省[Fu2 jian4 Sheng3]good fortune; happiness; luck
- 却x1 | Chapter Rank #648but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though
- 不少x1 | Chapter Rank #649many; quite a few; a good number of
- 祖宗x1 | Chapter Rank #650ancestor; forebear
- 连累x1 | Chapter Rank #651to implicate; to get (sb) into trouble; also pr. [lian2lei3] or [lian2lei4]
- 值得x1 | Chapter Rank #652worth the money; to merit; to deserve; to be worth (doing sth)
- 坚强x1 | Chapter Rank #653staunch; strong
- 清清白白x1 | Chapter Rank #654
- 认认真真x1 | Chapter Rank #655
- 做事x1 | Chapter Rank #656to work; to handle matters; to have a job