Vocabulary: 偷鸡不成蚀把米
from 笨人的成圣之道：曾国藩
- 橘子洲x1 | Chapter Rank #515
- 头x1 | Chapter Rank #516head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; aspect; first; leading; classifier for pigs or livestock; CL:個|个[ge4]suffix for nouns
- 丢人现眼x1 | Chapter Rank #517to make an exhibition of oneself; to be a disgrace
- 多么x2 | Chapter Rank #158how (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc); however (difficult it may be etc); (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc); to what extent
- 绝望x2 | Chapter Rank #159to despair; to give up all hope; desperate; desperation
- 哪怕x1 | Chapter Rank #518even; even if; even though; no matter how
- 只是x1 | Chapter Rank #519merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however
- 象征性x1 | Chapter Rank #520symbolic; emblem; token
- 小小的x1 | Chapter Rank #521
- 认x1 | Chapter Rank #522to recognize; to know; to admit
- 唉x1 | Chapter Rank #523interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sighalas; oh dear
- 正是x1 | Chapter Rank #524is precisely
- 自古x1 | Chapter Rank #525(since) ancient times; (from) time immemorial
- 悲哀x1 | Chapter Rank #526grieved; sorrowful
- 打工x1 | Chapter Rank #527to work a temporary or casual job; (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation
- 累死累活x1 | Chapter Rank #528to tire oneself out through overwork; to work oneself to death
- 一场空x1 | Chapter Rank #529all in vain; futile
- 责任x1 | Chapter Rank #530responsibility; duty; liability
- 没有x1 | Chapter Rank #531haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be
- 可怜x4 | Chapter Rank #51pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on
- 讨厌x1 | Chapter Rank #532to dislike; to loathe; disagreeable; troublesome; annoying
- 坏x1 | Chapter Rank #533bad; spoiled; broken; to break down; (suffix) to the utmost
- 老板x1 | Chapter Rank #534boss; business proprietor; CL:個|个[ge4]Robam (brand)
- 玩x1 | Chapter Rank #535to play; to have fun; to trifle with; toy; sth used for amusement; curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wan4]); to keep sth for entertainmentTaiwan pr. [wan4]
- 绝代x1 | Chapter Rank #536peerless; unmatched in his generation; incomparable (talent, beauty)
- 欲哭无泪x1 | Chapter Rank #537
- 凄然x1 | Chapter Rank #538distressed
- 出局x1 | Chapter Rank #539(of a batter) to be put out (in baseball); to be dismissed (in cricket); (of a player or team) to be eliminated from a competition; (fig.) to be weeded out; to get the chop (in a competitive environment)
- 影响x1 | Chapter Rank #540influence; effect; to influence; to affect (usually adversely); to disturb; CL:股[gu3]
- 战局x1 | Chapter Rank #541war situation
- 进展x1 | Chapter Rank #542to make headway; to make progress
- 势如破竹x1 | Chapter Rank #543like a hot knife through butter (idiom); with irresistible force
- 摧枯拉朽x1 | Chapter Rank #544
- 连x2 | Chapter Rank #160to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也[ye3], 都[dou1] etc) even; company (military)surname Lian
- 克x1 | Chapter Rank #545abbr. for 克羅地亞|克罗地亚[Ke4 luo2 di4 ya4], Croatia; (Tw) abbr. for 克羅埃西亞|克罗埃西亚[Ke4 luo2 ai1 xi1 ya4], Croatiato be able to; to subdue; to restrain; to overcome; gram; Tibetan unit of land area, about 6 aresKe (c. 2000 BC), seventh of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer Godto subdue; to overthrow; to restrain
- 溧水x1 | Chapter Rank #546see 溧水區|溧水区[Li4 shui3 Qu1]
- 句容x1 | Chapter Rank #547see 句容市[Ju4 rong2 Shi4]
- 镇江x1 | Chapter Rank #548see 鎮江市|镇江市[Zhen4 jiang1 Shi4]
- 瓜x1 | Chapter Rank #549melon; gourd; squash; (slang) a piece of gossip
- 洲x1 | Chapter Rank #550continent; island in a river
- 令x1 | Chapter Rank #551to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make sth happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poemused in 脊令[ji2 ling2]; used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])classifier for a ream of paper
- 欣慰x1 | Chapter Rank #552to be gratified
- 春x1 | Chapter Rank #553surname Chunspring (season); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life
- 与x1 | Chapter Rank #554(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 bestowto take part in
- 提督x2 | Chapter Rank #161the local commander; provincial governor (in Qing and Ming times)
- 张国梁x1 | Chapter Rank #555
- 重建x1 | Chapter Rank #556to rebuild; to reconstruct; to reestablish
- 再次x1 | Chapter Rank #557once more; once again
- 孤立x1 | Chapter Rank #558to isolate; isolated; unrelated; irrelevant
- 天x1 | Chapter Rank #559day; sky; heaven