Vocabulary: 低调的奢华
from 笨人的成圣之道:曾国藩
- 最x2 | Chapter Rank #138(before an adjective or verb) to the highest degree; (the) most ...; -est; (after 之[zhi1]) best or most extreme example (e.g. 世界之最[shi4 jie4 zhi1 zui4] "the greatest in the world")
- 油滑x1 | Chapter Rank #364oily; greasy; unctuous; slippery (character)
- 弟子x1 | Chapter Rank #365disciple; follower
- 李鸿章x11 | Chapter Rank #15Li Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat
- 给x4 | Chapter Rank #49to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier)to supply; to provide
- 助手x1 | Chapter Rank #366assistant; helper
- 替x1 | Chapter Rank #367to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for
- 摆平x1 | Chapter Rank #368to be fair; to be impartial; to settle (a matter etc)
- 一切x1 | Chapter Rank #369everything; every; all
- 不曾x1 | Chapter Rank #370hasn't yet; hasn't ever
- 推翻x2 | Chapter Rank #139to overthrow
- 现在x2 | Chapter Rank #140now; at present; currently
- 堪称x1 | Chapter Rank #371can be rated as; can be said to be
- 一言九鼎x1 | Chapter Rank #372one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
- 哪个x1 | Chapter Rank #373which; who
- 胆x1 | Chapter Rank #374gall bladder; courage; guts; gall; inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)
- 本人x3 | Chapter Rank #68I; me; myself; oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned
- 还有x1 | Chapter Rank #375there still remain(s); there is (or are) still; in addition
- 相比x2 | Chapter Rank #141to compare
- 于x4 | Chapter Rank #50surname Yuto go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle(of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by
- 一根x1 | Chapter Rank #376
- 筋x1 | Chapter Rank #377muscle; tendon; veins visible under the skin; sth resembling tendons or veins (e.g. fiber in a vegetable)
- 脑壳x1 | Chapter Rank #378(coll.) head; skull; (fig.) brains (mental capacity)
- 太x1 | Chapter Rank #379highest; greatest; too (much); very; extremely
- 够用x1 | Chapter Rank #380adequate; sufficient; enough
- 刚刚x1 | Chapter Rank #381just recently; just a moment ago
- 让x1 | Chapter Rank #382to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])
- 尝到了x1 | Chapter Rank #383
- 吃x1 | Chapter Rank #384to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- 便宜x1 | Chapter Rank #385convenientcheap; inexpensive; a petty advantage; to let sb off lightly
- 饭x1 | Chapter Rank #386cooked rice; CL:碗[wan3]; meal; CL:頓|顿[dun4]; (loanword) fan; devotee
- 快感x1 | Chapter Rank #387pleasure; thrill; delight; joy; pleasurable sensation; a high
- 琢磨x1 | Chapter Rank #388to ponder; to mull over; to think through; Taiwan pr. [zhuo2 mo2]to carve and polish (jade); to polish and refine a literary work
- 赶紧x1 | Chapter Rank #389hurriedly; without delay
- 直捣x1 | Chapter Rank #390to advance directly toward (an enemy stronghold etc); (fig.) to directly target (the main objective)
- 天x2 | Chapter Rank #142day; sky; heaven
- 京城x1 | Chapter Rank #391capital of a country
- 围坐x1 | Chapter Rank #392to sit in a circle; seated around (a narrator)
- 困x1 | Chapter Rank #393to trap; to surround; hard-pressed; stranded; destitutesleepy; tired
- 搞x2 | Chapter Rank #143to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of
- 死x1 | Chapter Rank #394to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned
- 不停x2 | Chapter Rank #144incessant
- 念x1 | Chapter Rank #395to read; to study (a subject); to attend (a school); to read aloud; to give (sb) a tongue-lashing (CL:頓|顿[dun4]); to miss (sb); idea; remembrance; twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿[nian4])
- 顺口溜x1 | Chapter Rank #396popular piece of doggerel; common phrase repeated as a jingle
- 洪秀全x1 | Chapter Rank #397Hong Xiuquan or Hung Hsiu-ch'üan (1814-1864), leader of the Taiping rebellion or Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
- 立下x1 | Chapter Rank #398to set up; to establish
- 世x1 | Chapter Rank #399life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime; epoch; descendant; noblesurname Shi
- 功勋x1 | Chapter Rank #400meritorious service; distinguished contribution; achievement of great merit
- 此生x1 | Chapter Rank #401
- 足矣x1 | Chapter Rank #402