Vocabulary: 最大的道理是不讲道理
from 笨人的成圣之道：曾国藩
- 一桩x1 | Chapter Rank #315
- 事x2 | Chapter Rank #125matter; thing; item; work; affair; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]
- 就是x9 | Chapter Rank #17exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if
- 扫平x1 | Chapter Rank #316
- 把x3 | Chapter Rank #76to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb})handle
- 再x3 | Chapter Rank #77again; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time; (before an adjective) more; then (after sth, and not until then); no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis); (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4 ze2], 再就是[zai4 jiu4 shi4] etc); (literary) to reappear; to reoccur
- 引来x1 | Chapter Rank #317
- 安定x1 | Chapter Rank #318stable; calm; settled; to stabilize; Valium; diazepam
- 要素x1 | Chapter Rank #319essential factor; key constituent
- 正在x1 | Chapter Rank #320to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing
- 周边x3 | Chapter Rank #78periphery; rim; perimeter; surroundings; (computing) (attributive) peripheral; merch (abbr. for 周邊商品|周边商品[zhou1 bian1 shang1 pin3])
- 活动x2 | Chapter Rank #126to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc); movable; flexible; liquid (capital etc); (volcanic, seismic, economic etc) activity; (outdoor etc) activity; event; (political) campaign; (military) maneuver (CL:項|项[xiang4]); to use personal influence, connections, bribes etc
- 江湖x3 | Chapter Rank #79rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- 人士x2 | Chapter Rank #127person; figure; public figure
- 倒大霉x1 | Chapter Rank #321
- 成事x1 | Chapter Rank #322to accomplish the objective; to succeed
- 因为x2 | Chapter Rank #128because; owing to; on account of
- 这些x4 | Chapter Rank #52these
- 其x4 | Chapter Rank #53his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it)
- 宗旨x1 | Chapter Rank #323objective; aim; goal
- 清廷x1 | Chapter Rank #324the Qing court (as government of China)
- 对立x1 | Chapter Rank #325to oppose; to set sth against; to be antagonistic to; antithetical; relative opposite; opposing; diametrical
- 组织x4 | Chapter Rank #54to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 存在x2 | Chapter Rank #129to exist; to be; existence
- 拜x1 | Chapter Rank #326to bow to; to pay one's respects; (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion); to make a courtesy call; (bound form) (of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony; to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc); (used before some verbs to indicate politeness)
- 上帝教x1 | Chapter Rank #327
- 感召x1 | Chapter Rank #328to move and appeal; to rally to a cause; to impel; to inspire
- 信徒x1 | Chapter Rank #329believer
- 本身x1 | Chapter Rank #330itself; in itself; per se
- 幸好x1 | Chapter Rank #331fortunately
- 着x2 | Chapter Rank #130to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding ina move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to addaspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing stateto wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to apply
- 中国x2 | Chapter Rank #131China
- 尚武x6 | Chapter Rank #28to promote a martial spirit; to revere military skills; warlike
- 中心x5 | Chapter Rank #37center; heart; core
- 天地会x4 | Chapter Rank #55Tiandihui (Chinese fraternal organization)
- 军事行动x1 | Chapter Rank #332military operation
- 却x2 | Chapter Rank #132but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though
- 缺乏x1 | Chapter Rank #333to lack; to be short of
- 政治x1 | Chapter Rank #334politics; political
- 诉求x1 | Chapter Rank #335to demand; to call for; to petition; demand; wish; request; to promote one's brand; to appeal to (consumers); (marketing) message; pitch
- 宣称x1 | Chapter Rank #336to assert; to claim
- 自己x2 | Chapter Rank #133oneself; (attributive) one's own
- 上帝x1 | Chapter Rank #337God
- 子x1 | Chapter Rank #338son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
- 武装x1 | Chapter Rank #339arms; equipment; to arm; military; armed (forces)
- 精神x2 | Chapter Rank #134vigor; vitality; spirited; good-lookingspirit; mind; consciousness; thought; mental; psychological; essence; gist; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 内核x1 | Chapter Rank #340core (of a fruit); (fig.) the essence (of a concept or doctrine etc); (geology) inner core; (computing) kernel
- 军事力量x1 | Chapter Rank #341military strength; military force(s)
- 结合x1 | Chapter Rank #342to combine; to link; to integrate; binding; CL:次[ci4]
- 构成x4 | Chapter Rank #56to constitute; to form; to compose; to make up; to configure (computing)