Vocabulary: 最大的道理是不讲道理
from 笨人的成圣之道：曾国藩
- 意识x1 | Chapter Rank #183consciousness; awareness; (usu. followed by 到[dao4]) to be aware of; to realize
- 当时x4 | Chapter Rank #44immediately; right thenthen; at that time
- 绿营x4 | Chapter Rank #45Green Standard Army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units
- 兵x4 | Chapter Rank #46soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 恐怕x1 | Chapter Rank #184fear; to dread; I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe
- 对手x1 | Chapter Rank #185opponent; rival; competitor; (well-matched) adversary; match
- 要x7 | Chapter Rank #20to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) important(bound form) to demand; to coerce
- 想x3 | Chapter Rank #62to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
- 彻底x3 | Chapter Rank #63thorough; thoroughly; complete
- 必须x3 | Chapter Rank #64to have to; must; compulsory; necessarily
- 双管齐下x1 | Chapter Rank #186lit. to paint holding two brushes (idiom); fig. to work on two tasks at the same time; to attack one problem from two angles at the same time
- 一面x2 | Chapter Rank #94one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face
- 坚持x1 | Chapter Rank #187to persevere with; to persist in; to insist on
- 正面x1 | Chapter Rank #188front; obverse side; right side; positive; direct; open
- 作战x2 | Chapter Rank #95combat; to fight
- 派x1 | Chapter Rank #189used in 派司[pa1 si5](literary) tributary; branch of a river; clique; school; group; faction; (bound form) style; manner; to send (a person or resource); to dispatch; to allocate (a resource or task); to appoint (sb); classifier for factions, groups etc; (preceded by 一[yi1]) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc; (loanword) pi (Greek letter Π, π); the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159...; (loanword) pie
- 有x10 | Chapter Rank #14to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)
- 名望x1 | Chapter Rank #190renown; prestige
- 能力x4 | Chapter Rank #47capability; ability; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 大臣x4 | Chapter Rank #48chancellor (of a monarchy); cabinet minister
- 返乡x1 | Chapter Rank #191to return to one's home town
- 训练x3 | Chapter Rank #65to train; to drill; training; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 乡勇x2 | Chapter Rank #96
- 配合x1 | Chapter Rank #192matching; fitting in with; compatible with; to correspond; to fit; to conform to; rapport; to coordinate with; to act in concert with; to cooperate; to become man and wife; to combine parts of machine
- 侧面x1 | Chapter Rank #193lateral side; side; aspect; profile
- 两手抓x1 | Chapter Rank #194
- 两手x1 | Chapter Rank #195one's two hands; two prongs (of a strategy); both aspects, eventualities etc; skills; expertise
- 都要x1 | Chapter Rank #196
- 硬x1 | Chapter Rank #197hard; stiff; solid; (fig.) strong; firm; resolutely; uncompromisingly; laboriously; with great difficulty; good (quality); able (person); (of food) filling; substantial
- 正是x2 | Chapter Rank #97is precisely
- 后x2 | Chapter Rank #98surname Houempress; queen; (archaic) monarch; rulerback; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; post-
- 一招x1 | Chapter Rank #198
- 救x2 | Chapter Rank #99to save; to assist; to rescue
- 大清x1 | Chapter Rank #199Great Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- 帝国x10 | Chapter Rank #15empire; imperial
- 命x2 | Chapter Rank #100life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc
- 实际上x2 | Chapter Rank #101in fact; in reality; as a matter of fact; in practice
- 清x5 | Chapter Rank #31Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China (1644–1911); surname Qing(of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts)
- 正规军x2 | Chapter Rank #102regular army; standing army
- 与x5 | Chapter Rank #32to take part in(formal) and; together with (linking parallel nouns, verbs, or phrases); (formal) with; from (marking the other participant in an interaction, comparison, or contrast, e.g. 與他握手|与他握手[yu3 ta1 wo4 shou3] "shake hands with him", 與去年不同|与去年不同[yu3 qu4 nian2 bu4 tong2] "different from last year"); (literary) to give; to grant; to bestow
- 血拼x1 | Chapter Rank #200(loanword) shopping (as a fun pastime)
- 中x4 | Chapter Rank #49(bound form) China; Chinese; surname Zhongto hit (a target); to be struck by (a bullet, illness etc); to win (a prize or lottery)within; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during; (dialect) OK; all right
- 覆灭x2 | Chapter Rank #103destruction
- 最后x1 | Chapter Rank #201final; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
- 依靠x1 | Chapter Rank #202to rely on sth (for support etc); to depend on
- 曾国藩x15 | Chapter Rank #7Zeng Guofan (1811-1872), Qing dynasty politician and military man
- 出来x2 | Chapter Rank #104to come out; to appear; to arise(after a verb, indicates coming out, completion of an action, or ability to discern or detect)
- 湘军x2 | Chapter Rank #105Hunan army, irregular force formed in 1850s to fight the Taiping heavenly kingdom rebellion
- 不过x2 | Chapter Rank #106only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- 民间x5 | Chapter Rank #33among the people; popular; folk; non-governmental; involving people rather than governments