Vocabulary: 宏大与精巧的对撞
from 笨人的成圣之道：曾国藩
- 前线x1 | Chapter Rank #457front line; military front; workface; cutting edge
- 从x2 | Chapter Rank #155surname Congfrom; through; via; (bound form) to follow; (bound form) to obey; (bound form) to engage in (an activity); (used before a negative) ever; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer; attendant; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor
- 溃散x1 | Chapter Rank #458(of troops) to be routed and dispersed
- 下来x3 | Chapter Rank #83to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)
- 万名x2 | Chapter Rank #156all names
- 再x3 | Chapter Rank #84again; 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
- 加上x1 | Chapter Rank #459plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that
- 带来x1 | Chapter Rank #460to bring; (fig.) to bring about; to produce
- 援军x1 | Chapter Rank #461(military) reinforcements
- 选择x1 | Chapter Rank #462to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative
- 孔x2 | Chapter Rank #157hole; CL:個|个[ge4]; classifier for cave dwellingssurname Kong
- 垅x2 | Chapter Rank #158
- 驿x2 | Chapter Rank #159post horse; relay station
- 布防x1 | Chapter Rank #463to lay out a defense
- 但湘军x1 | Chapter Rank #464
- 势头x1 | Chapter Rank #465power; momentum; tendency; impetus; situation; the look of things
- 正x1 | Chapter Rank #466first month of the lunar yearstraight; upright; proper; main; principal; to correct; to rectify; exactly; just (at that time); right (in that place); (math.) positive
- 双方x1 | Chapter Rank #467bilateral; both sides; both parties involved
- 激战x1 | Chapter Rank #468to fight fiercely; fierce battle
- 顶不住x1 | Chapter Rank #469
- 陷入x1 | Chapter Rank #470to sink into; to get caught up in; to land in (a predicament)
- 疯狂x1 | Chapter Rank #471crazy; frenzied; wild
- 对手x1 | Chapter Rank #472opponent; rival; competitor; (well-matched) adversary; match
- 只好x2 | Chapter Rank #160to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to
- 南渡x1 | Chapter Rank #473
- 长江x1 | Chapter Rank #474Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang
- 据守x1 | Chapter Rank #475to guard; to hold a fortified position; entrenched
- 湖口x2 | Chapter Rank #161see 湖口縣|湖口县[Hu2 kou3 Xian4]; see 湖口鄉|湖口乡[Hu2 kou3 Xiang1]
- 追x2 | Chapter Rank #162to chase; to pursue; to look into; to investigate; to reminisce; to recall; to court (one's beloved); to binge-watch (a TV drama); retroactively; posthumouslyto sculpt; to carve; musical instrument (old)
- 屁股x1 | Chapter Rank #476buttocks; bottom; butt; back part
- 城下x2 | Chapter Rank #163
- 大x3 | Chapter Rank #85see 大夫[dai4 fu5]big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- 骇x1 | Chapter Rank #477to astonish; to startle; to hack (computing, loanword)
- 不由得x2 | Chapter Rank #164can't help; cannot but
- 惊呼x1 | Chapter Rank #478to cry out in alarm or surprise
- 怎么x2 | Chapter Rank #165how?; what?; why?
- 回事x1 | Chapter Rank #479(old) to report to one's master
- 看到x3 | Chapter Rank #86to see
- 吓x1 | Chapter Rank #480to frighten; to scareto scare; to intimidate; to threaten; (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut; (interjection showing astonishment)
- 成x2 | Chapter Rank #166surname Cheng; short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth
- 样子x1 | Chapter Rank #481appearance; manner; pattern; model
- 南北x1 | Chapter Rank #482north and south; north to south
- 两岸x1 | Chapter Rank #483bilateral; both shores; both sides; both coasts; Taiwan and mainland
- 小池x1 | Chapter Rank #484
- 口x1 | Chapter Rank #485mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls
- 密布x1 | Chapter Rank #486to cover densely
- 营垒x2 | Chapter Rank #167army camp
- 炮台x2 | Chapter Rank #168fort; battery
- 杀气腾腾x1 | Chapter Rank #487ferocious; murderous-looking
- 戒备森严x1 | Chapter Rank #488heavily-guarded