Vocabulary: 一个男人和十位夫人
from 百年袁家：袁世凯及杨氏夫人后裔百年家族史
- 调羹x1 | Chapter Rank #550spoon; (esp.) Chinese soup spoon (often ceramic)
- 蔬x1 | Chapter Rank #551vegetables
- 进x1 | Chapter Rank #552to go forward; to advance; to go in; to enter; to put in; to submit; to take in; to admit; (math.) base of a number system; classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
- 且x2 | Chapter Rank #275and; moreover; yet; for the time being; to be about to; both (... and...)
- 视x1 | Chapter Rank #553(literary, or bound form) to look at
- 衾x1 | Chapter Rank #554coverlet; quilt
- 帏x1 | Chapter Rank #555curtain; women's apartment; tent
- 试x1 | Chapter Rank #556to test; to try; experiment; examination; test
- 量x1 | Chapter Rank #557to measurecapacity; quantity; amount; to estimate; abbr. for 量詞|量词[liang4 ci2], classifier (in Chinese grammar); measure word
- 温寒x1 | Chapter Rank #558
- 退x1 | Chapter Rank #559to retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth); to decline
- 归x4 | Chapter Rank #118to return; to go back to; to give back to; (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by; to belong to; to gather together; (used between two identical verbs) despite; to marry (of a woman) (old); division on the abacus with a one-digit divisorsurname Gui
- 己x1 | Chapter Rank #560self; oneself; sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; sixth in order; letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; hexa
- 室x1 | Chapter Rank #561surname Shiroom; work unit; grave; scabbard; family or clan; one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy
- 终岁x1 | Chapter Rank #562
- 如一日x1 | Chapter Rank #563
- 未尝x1 | Chapter Rank #564not ever; not necessarily
- 焉x1 | Chapter Rank #565where; how
- 在生活上x1 | Chapter Rank #566
- 抨击x1 | Chapter Rank #567to attack (verbally or in writing)
- 最x4 | Chapter Rank #119(before an adjective or verb) to the highest degree; (the) most ...; -est; (after 之[zhi1]) best or most extreme example (e.g. 世界之最[shi4 jie4 zhi1 zui4] "the greatest in the world")
- 多x7 | Chapter Rank #62many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-
- 娶x3 | Chapter Rank #160to take a wife; to marry (a woman)
- 众所周知x1 | Chapter Rank #568(idiom) as everyone knows
- 我国x1 | Chapter Rank #569my country; our country
- 古代x1 | Chapter Rank #570ancient times
- 婚姻制度x1 | Chapter Rank #571
- 基本上x1 | Chapter Rank #572basically; on the whole
- 延续x1 | Chapter Rank #573to continue; to go on; to last
- 西周x1 | Chapter Rank #574Western Zhou (1027-771 BC)
- 以来x1 | Chapter Rank #575since (used after a specified time or event)
- 确立x1 | Chapter Rank #576to establish; to institute
- 一夫一妻x2 | Chapter Rank #276monogamy
- 妾x11 | Chapter Rank #33concubine; I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women)
- 制x2 | Chapter Rank #277system; to control; to regulateto manufacture; to make
- 几个x1 | Chapter Rank #577a few; several; how many
- 妻妾x6 | Chapter Rank #70wives and concubines (of a polygamous man); harem
- 并x4 | Chapter Rank #120and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to mergeto combine; to amalgamateshort name for Taiyuan 太原[Tai4 yuan2]
- 没有x6 | Chapter Rank #71haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be
- 法律x1 | Chapter Rank #578law; CL:條|条[tiao2], 套[tao4], 個|个[ge4]
- 限制x1 | Chapter Rank #579to restrict; to limit; to confine; restriction; limit; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 也就是说x1 | Chapter Rank #580in other words; that is to say; so; thus
- 纳妾x1 | Chapter Rank #581to take a concubine
- 违法x1 | Chapter Rank #582illegal; to break the law
- 实质x1 | Chapter Rank #583substance; essence
- 按x1 | Chapter Rank #584to press; to push; to leave aside or shelve; to control; to restrain; to keep one's hand on; to check or refer to; according to; in the light of; (of an editor or author) to make a comment
- 权力x1 | Chapter Rank #585power; authority
- 大小x1 | Chapter Rank #586large and small; size; adults and children; consideration of seniority; at any rate
- 来x6 | Chapter Rank #72to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- 占有x1 | Chapter Rank #587to have; to own; to hold; to occupy; to possess; to account for (a high proportion etc)