Vocabulary: 乱世用重典，时势造煞星
from 笨人的成圣之道：曾国藩
- 训练团x1 | Chapter Rank #487
- 练x1 | Chapter Rank #488to practice; to train; to drill; to perfect (one's skill); exercise; (literary) white silk; to boil and scour raw silk
- 借口x1 | Chapter Rank #489to use as an excuse; excuse; pretext
- 找x2 | Chapter Rank #171to try to find; to look for; to call on sb; to find; to seek; to return; to give change
- 三个x1 | Chapter Rank #490
- 会x1 | Chapter Rank #491can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3])(bound form) to reckon accounts
- 武艺x1 | Chapter Rank #492martial art; military skill
- 教练x1 | Chapter Rank #493to coach; to train; instructor; sports coach; trainer (CL:位[wei4],名[ming2])
- 团x1 | Chapter Rank #494round; lump; ball; to roll into a ball; to gather; regiment; group; society; classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke)dumpling
- 勇x1 | Chapter Rank #495brave
- 操演x3 | Chapter Rank #82drill; exercise; demonstration; to demonstrate
- 然后x2 | Chapter Rank #172then; after that; afterwards
- 偷眼x1 | Chapter Rank #496to take a furtive look at
- 盯x1 | Chapter Rank #497to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at
- 着x3 | Chapter Rank #83to 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
- 仨x1 | Chapter Rank #498three (colloquial equivalent of 三個|三个)
- 教官x1 | Chapter Rank #499military instructor
- 那个x1 | Chapter Rank #500that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc); (euph.) menstruation; sex; also pr. [nei4 ge5]
- 叫x1 | Chapter Rank #501to shout; to call; to order; to ask; to be called; by (indicates agent in the passive mood)
- 塔x15 | Chapter Rank #6pagoda (abbr. for 塔婆[ta3 po2], a loanword from Sanskrit stūpa); tower; pylon (CL:座[zuo4]); (loanword) (pastry) tart
- 齐x15 | Chapter Rank #7(name of states and dynasties at several different periods); surname Qineat; even; level with; identical; simultaneous; all together; to even sth out
- 布x15 | Chapter Rank #8to announce; to spreadcloth; to declare; to announce; to spread; to make known
- 还x2 | Chapter Rank #173surname Huanstill; still in progress; still more; yet; even more; in addition; fairly; passably (good); as early as; even; also; elseto pay back; to return
- 另外x1 | Chapter Rank #502additional; in addition; besides; separate; other; moreover; furthermore
- 两x2 | Chapter Rank #174two; both; some; a few; tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jin1] (old)
- 纯粹x1 | Chapter Rank #503pure; unadulterated; purely; completely
- 滥竽充数x1 | Chapter Rank #504lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products; to masquerade as having an ability; token member of a group
- 辞退x1 | Chapter Rank #505to dismiss; to discharge; to fire
- 单x1 | Chapter Rank #506surname Shanbill; list; form; single; only; sole; odd number; CL:個|个[ge4]used in 單于|单于[chan2 yu2]
- 只x1 | Chapter Rank #507only; merely; justgrain that has begun to ripenclassifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
- 留下x1 | Chapter Rank #508to leave behind; to stay behind; to remain; to keep; not to let (sb) go
- 三十岁x1 | Chapter Rank #509
- 出头x1 | Chapter Rank #510to get out of a predicament; to stick out; to take the initiative; remaining odd fraction after a division; a little more than
- 满族x2 | Chapter Rank #175Manchu ethnic group
- 托尔x1 | Chapter Rank #511
- 佳x1 | Chapter Rank #512beautiful; fine; goodsurname Jia
- 氏x1 | Chapter Rank #513(bound form) family name; surname (as in 王氏[Wang2 shi4] "the Wang clan"); (bound form) maiden name; née (as in 李王氏[Li3 Wang2 shi4] "Mrs. Li, née Wang"); (bound form) honorific suffix added to the surname or full name of a notable person, esp. historical or scholarly figuresused in 月氏[Yue4 zhi1]; used in 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1]
- 任x1 | Chapter Rank #514surname Rento assign; to appoint; to take up a post; office; responsibility; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter (how, what etc); classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)
- 都司x2 | Chapter Rank #176
- 署x1 | Chapter Rank #515office; bureau; (Taiwan pr. [shu4]) to sign; to arrange
- 参x2 | Chapter Rank #177ginseng; one of the 28 constellationsto take part in; to participate; to join; to attend; to counsel; unequal; varied; irregular; uneven; not uniform; abbr. for 參議院|参议院 Senate, Upper Houseused in 參差|参差[cen1 ci1]
- 大x2 | Chapter Rank #178big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
- 点x1 | Chapter Rank #516to touch briefly; to tap; to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list); to order (food etc); to select; to mention; to bring up (a topic or person); to hint at; to imply; to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops; to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite; to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down; point; dot; spot; speck; dot stroke in Chinese characters; (math.) decimal point; point in time or space; (after a number) o'clock; a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more; classifier for small amounts
- 小x1 | Chapter Rank #517small; tiny; few; young
- 芝麻官x1 | Chapter Rank #518low ranking official; petty bureaucrat
- 相x1 | Chapter Rank #519each 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])surname Xiangappearance; portrait; picture; government minister; (physics) phase; (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features); to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)
- 他的x1 | Chapter Rank #520
- 剽悍x1 | Chapter Rank #521swift and fierce
- 骁勇x1 | Chapter Rank #522
- 又x1 | Chapter Rank #523(once) again; also; both... and...; and yet; (used for emphasis) anyway