Vocabulary: 一个人和一个国家
from 百年袁家：袁世凯及杨氏夫人后裔百年家族史
- 税务x1 | Chapter Rank #1053taxation services; state revenue service
- 十二x1 | Chapter Rank #1054twelve; 12
- 历练x1 | Chapter Rank #1055to learn through experience; experience; practiced; experienced
- 甲午战争x2 | Chapter Rank #449First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
- 大国x1 | Chapter Rank #1056a power (i.e. a dominant country)
- 弱x1 | Chapter Rank #1057weak; feeble; young; inferior; not as good as; (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than
- 兵x3 | Chapter Rank #261soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 教训x1 | Chapter Rank #1058to provide guidance; to lecture sb; to upbraid; a talking-to; a bitter lesson; CL:番[fan1],頓|顿[dun4]
- 坚信x1 | Chapter Rank #1059to believe firmly; without any doubt
- 使x5 | Chapter Rank #131to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- 变弱x1 | Chapter Rank #1060
- 强x2 | Chapter Rank #450stubborn; unyieldingsurname Qiangstrong; powerful; better; slightly more than; vigorous; violent; best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强[bai3 qiang2]to force; to compel; to strive; to make an effort
- 自x8 | Chapter Rank #80(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
- 第一件x1 | Chapter Rank #1061
- 事x2 | Chapter Rank #451matter; thing; item; work; affair; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]
- 经x1 | Chapter Rank #1062surname Jingclassics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 經濟|经济[jing1 ji4]
- 慈禧太后x2 | Chapter Rank #452Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (1835-1908), regent 1861-1908
- 批准x1 | Chapter Rank #1063to approve; to ratify
- 光绪皇帝x2 | Chapter Rank #453
- 终于x1 | Chapter Rank #1064at last; in the end; finally; eventually
- 颁发x1 | Chapter Rank #1065to issue; to promulgate; to award
- 任命x1 | Chapter Rank #1066to appoint; (job) appointment; CL:紙|纸[zhi3]
- 新建x3 | Chapter Rank #262see 新建區|新建区[Xin1 jian4 Qu1]new construction; newly built
- 陆军x4 | Chapter Rank #183army; ground forces
- 督办x1 | Chapter Rank #1067to oversee; to supervise; superintendent
- 近代x5 | Chapter Rank #132the not-very-distant past; modern times, excluding recent decades; (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919); capitalist times (pre-1949)
- 创始人x1 | Chapter Rank #1068creator; founder; initiator
- 一路x2 | Chapter Rank #454the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind
- 艰辛x1 | Chapter Rank #1069hardships; arduous; difficult
- 磨难x1 | Chapter Rank #1070a torment; a trial; tribulation; a cross (to bear); well-tried
- 渐渐x1 | Chapter Rank #1071gradually
- 胸有城府x1 | Chapter Rank #1072subtle way of thinking (idiom); hard to fathom; deep and shrewd
- 藏而不露x1 | Chapter Rank #1073
- 谨言慎行x1 | Chapter Rank #1074
- 人情x1 | Chapter Rank #1075human emotions; social relationship; friendship; favor; a good turn
- 练达x1 | Chapter Rank #1076experienced; sophisticated; worldly-wise
- 能屈能伸x1 | Chapter Rank #1077can bow and submit, or can stand tall (idiom, from Book of Changes); ready to give and take; flexible
- 此时x3 | Chapter Rank #263now; this moment
- 仅x1 | Chapter Rank #1078barely; only; merely
- 三十六岁x1 | Chapter Rank #1079
- 事业x2 | Chapter Rank #455undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 如日中天x1 | Chapter Rank #1080lit. like the sun at noon (idiom); fig. to be at the peak of one's power, career etc
- 重任x2 | Chapter Rank #456heavy responsibility
- 利害x1 | Chapter Rank #1081pros and cons; advantages and disadvantages; gains and losses
- 紧密结合x1 | Chapter Rank #1082
- 一起x3 | Chapter Rank #264(in) the same place; together; in company (with); altogether; in total; an instance of; a case of (murder, accident, dispute etc)
- 小小的x1 | Chapter Rank #1083
- 海河x1 | Chapter Rank #1084Hai He (a system of five waterways around Tianjin, flowing into Bohai 渤海 at Dagukou 大沽口)
- 小镇x1 | Chapter Rank #1085small town; village
- 由于x1 | Chapter Rank #1086due to; as a result of; thanks to; owing to; since; because