Vocabulary: 低调的奢华
from 笨人的成圣之道:曾国藩
- 东来x1 | Chapter Rank #526
- 风波x1 | Chapter Rank #527disturbance; crisis; disputes; restlessness; CL:場|场[chang2]
- 羁x1 | Chapter Rank #528bridle; halter; to restrain; to detain; to lodge; inn
- 滞x1 | Chapter Rank #529(bound form) sluggish; stagnant
- 至x2 | Chapter Rank #160to arrive; most; to; until
- 皖x1 | Chapter Rank #530short name for Anhui 安徽[An1 hui1]
- 稍迟x1 | Chapter Rank #531
- 即令x1 | Chapter Rank #532even if; even though
- 李x1 | Chapter Rank #533surname Liplum
- 廉x1 | Chapter Rank #534incorruptible; honest; inexpensive; to investigate (old); side wall of a traditional Chinese house (old)surname Lian
- 访x1 | Chapter Rank #535(bound form) to seek by inquiry; (bound form) to visit; to call on
- 先x1 | Chapter Rank #536beforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now; (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
- 挈x1 | Chapter Rank #537to raise; to lift; to take along (e.g. one's family)
- 万x1 | Chapter Rank #538used in 万俟[Mo4 qi2]ten thousand; a great numbersurname Wan
- 前往x1 | Chapter Rank #539to leave for; to proceed towards; to go to
- 无论x1 | Chapter Rank #540no matter what or how; regardless of whether...
- 多么x1 | Chapter Rank #541how (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc); however (difficult it may be etc); (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc); to what extent
- 老师x2 | Chapter Rank #161teacher
- 眼里x1 | Chapter Rank #542
- 只不过x1 | Chapter Rank #543only; merely; nothing but; no more than; it's just that ...
- 家x1 | Chapter Rank #544used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 兄弟x2 | Chapter Rank #162brothers; younger brother; CL:個|个[ge4]; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal
- 仕途x1 | Chapter Rank #545official career (formal)
- 垫脚石x1 | Chapter Rank #546stepping stone; fig. person used to advance one's career
- 突破x1 | Chapter Rank #547to break through; to make a breakthrough; to surmount (an obstacle); (sports) to break through the opponent's defense
- 氏x1 | Chapter Rank #548used in 月氏[Yue4 zhi1]; used in 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1](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 figures
- 封锁x1 | Chapter Rank #549to blockade; to seal off; to lock down
- 海阔天空x1 | Chapter Rank #550wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas; the whole wide world; chatting about everything under the sun
- 必须x1 | Chapter Rank #551to have to; must; compulsory; necessarily
- 倚仗x1 | Chapter Rank #552to lean on; to rely on
- 丝毫x1 | Chapter Rank #553the slightest amount or degree; a bit
- 不亚于x1 | Chapter Rank #554no less than; not inferior to
- 权谋x1 | Chapter Rank #555trickery; tactics
- 道x1 | Chapter Rank #556road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]); (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization; (Daoism) the Way; the Dao; to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel); (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words); classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division)
- 心平气和x1 | Chapter Rank #557tranquil and even-tempered (idiom); calmly and without stress
- 坐下x1 | Chapter Rank #558to sit down
- 写x1 | Chapter Rank #559to writeused in 寫意|写意[xie4 yi4]
- 封x1 | Chapter Rank #560surname Fengto confer; to grant; to bestow a title; to seal; classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters
- 情真意切x1 | Chapter Rank #561(idiom) sincere; heartfelt
- 东吴x1 | Chapter Rank #562Eastern Wu (222-280); the southern state of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权
- 请x3 | Chapter Rank #77to ask; to invite; please (do sth); to treat (to a meal etc); to request
- 兵x1 | Chapter Rank #563soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 使x1 | Chapter Rank #564to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- 数x1 | Chapter Rank #565number; figure; several; a fewto count; to count as; to regard as; to enumerate; to list(literary) frequently; repeatedly
- 师门x1 | Chapter Rank #566
- 始x1 | Chapter Rank #567to begin; to start; then; only then
- 麾下x2 | Chapter Rank #163troops; subordinates; (honorific appellation for a general)
- 得胜x1 | Chapter Rank #568to triumph over an opponent
- 师x1 | Chapter Rank #569surname Shiteacher; master; expert; model; army division; (old) troops; to dispatch troops
- 允x1 | Chapter Rank #570just; fair; to permit; to allow