Vocabulary: 偷鸡不成蚀把米
from 笨人的成圣之道：曾国藩
- 部下x1 | Chapter Rank #315troops under one's command; subordinate
- 徒x1 | Chapter Rank #316surname Tu(bound form) disciple; apprentice; believer; (derog.) wrongdoer (as in 騙徒|骗徒[pian4 tu2] "swindler" or 叛徒[pan4 tu2] "traitor" etc); (bound form) on foot; (bound form) bare; empty; (bound form) to no avail; in vain; (bound form) merely; just; only; (bound form) prison sentence
- 有x7 | Chapter Rank #20to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)
- 保举x1 | Chapter Rank #317
- 名x1 | Chapter Rank #318name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people
- 永无x1 | Chapter Rank #319
- 履任x1 | Chapter Rank #320
- 之时x2 | Chapter Rank #125
- 第二条x1 | Chapter Rank #321
- 客x2 | Chapter Rank #126customer; visitor; guest; classifier for servings or portions (when ordering food)
- 军x1 | Chapter Rank #322(bound form) army; military
- 虚x2 | Chapter Rank #127emptiness; void; abstract theory or guiding principles; empty or unoccupied; diffident or timid; false; humble or modest; (of health) weak; virtual; in vain
- 悬x2 | Chapter Rank #128to hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement; unresolved; baseless; without foundation
- 宾主x1 | Chapter Rank #323guest and host
- 歧视x1 | Chapter Rank #324to discriminate against; discrimination
- 呼应x1 | Chapter Rank #325to conform (with); to echo; to correlate well; (linguistics) agreement
- 难x1 | Chapter Rank #326difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not gooddisaster; distress; to scold
- 通x1 | Chapter Rank #327to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etcclassifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)
- 第三条x1 | Chapter Rank #328
- 意外x1 | Chapter Rank #329unexpected; accident; mishap; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 它x1 | Chapter Rank #330itit (pronoun for an animal)
- 研究x1 | Chapter Rank #331research; a study; CL:項|项[xiang4]; to research; to look into
- 史家x1 | Chapter Rank #332historian
- 鲜少x1 | Chapter Rank #333very few; rarely
- 提到x1 | Chapter Rank #334to mention; to raise (a subject); to refer to
- 关防x1 | Chapter Rank #335security measures (esp. border security); official seal (esp. military seal during Qing and Ming times)
- 更换x1 | Chapter Rank #336to replace (a worn-out tire etc); to change (one's address etc)
- 往往x1 | Chapter Rank #337usually; in many cases; more often than not
- 疑为x1 | Chapter Rank #338
- 伪造x1 | Chapter Rank #339to forge; to fake; to counterfeit
- 酿成x1 | Chapter Rank #340to make (wine or spirits); (fig.) to lead to (a bad result)
- 事端x1 | Chapter Rank #341disturbance; incident
- 实际上x1 | Chapter Rank #342in fact; in reality; as a matter of fact; in practice
- 暗示x1 | Chapter Rank #343to hint; to suggest; hint; suggestion
- 朝x1 | Chapter Rank #344abbr. for 朝鮮|朝鲜[Chao2 xian3] Koreamorningimperial or royal court; government; dynasty; reign of a sovereign or emperor; court or assembly held by a sovereign or emperor; to make a pilgrimage to; facing; towards
- 轧x1 | Chapter Rank #345surname Yato crush together (in a crowd); to make friends; to check (accounts)to crush; to knock sb down with a vehicleto roll (steel)
- 闹猛x1 | Chapter Rank #346(dialect) bustling; lively
- 一道x1 | Chapter Rank #347together
- 来x3 | Chapter Rank #77to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- 欺负x2 | Chapter Rank #129to bully
- 说到底x2 | Chapter Rank #130in the final analysis; in the end
- 前x1 | Chapter Rank #348front; forward; ahead; first; top (followed by a number); future; ago; before; BC (e.g. 前293年); former; formerly
- 原因x1 | Chapter Rank #349cause; origin; root cause; reason; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 官职x1 | Chapter Rank #350an official position; a job in the bureaucracy
- 压不住x1 | Chapter Rank #351
- 场子x1 | Chapter Rank #352(coll.) gathering place; public venue
- 导致x1 | Chapter Rank #353to lead to; to create; to cause; to bring about
- 官场x1 | Chapter Rank #354officialdom; bureaucracy
- 兴起x1 | Chapter Rank #355to rise; to spring up; to burgeon; to be aroused; to come into vogue
- 快乐x1 | Chapter Rank #356happy; joyful