Vocabulary: 贝佐斯传
- to hold; to grasp; to support; to maintain; to persevere; to manage; to run (i.e. administer); to control
- (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4 liu4] "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed; (old) residence of a high official; (literary) but; however; (literary) only; just
- rich and powerful person
- to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse
- prefecture; (old) province; (old) administrative division; state (e.g. of US); oblast (Russia); canton (Switzerland)
- legislature
- not liable to taxation (of monastery, imperial family etc); tax free; duty free (shop)
- to exhaust; to use up; to deplete; to drain
- to take in; income; revenue; CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4]
- to enact laws; to legislate; legislation
- to pay (taxes etc)
- tax on turnover; sales tax
- to complement; to make up for a deficiency
- before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand
- to purchase by mail; to mail-order
- 时代 Shí dài: 时代 Shi2 dai4: Time, US weekly news magazine时代 shí dài: 时代 shi2 dai4: age; era; epoch; period (in one's life); CL:個|个[ge4]
- leak; hole; gap; loophole
- to preserve; to save
- 相 Xiāng: 相 Xiang1: surname Xiang相 xiāng: 相 xiang1: each other; one another; mutually; fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶[pi2 pa5] (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品[pin3])相 xiàng: 相 xiang4: appearance; portrait; picture; government minister; (physics) phase; (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features); to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)
- (bound form) to compare; (literary) to dispute; compared to; (before an adjective) relatively; comparatively; rather; also pr. [jiao3]
- offline; below the line
- outstanding; notable; remarkable; statistically significant
- California
- to cancel; to call off; to revoke; to rescind
- to force; to compel; to coerce; forced; compulsory; Taiwan pr. [qiang3zhi4]
- to receive; to collect
- plebiscite; referendum
- to fight; to engage in combat; struggle; battle; CL:場|场[chang2],次[ci4]
- half
- to change; to alter; to transform
- direction; orientation
- to evade; to dodge
- (idiom) restricted; constrained; inhibited
- facilities; installation
- place; site; location; venue; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to go on an official or business trip
- to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc); to be ...ed (praised, educated, punished etc)
- (used for abstract things) a good deal, a lot of
- to restrict; to limit; to confine; restriction; limit; CL:個|个[ge4]
- valuable; precious; to value; to treasure; to set store by
- (idiom) to replace; to supersede; to take its (or her etc) place
- long-term; long-range