Vocabulary: 用儿子性命来埋单
from 笨人的成圣之道：曾国藩
- 数十万x1 | Chapter Rank #225
- 犹如x1 | Chapter Rank #226similar to; like
- 滚滚x1 | Chapter Rank #227nickname for a pandato surge on; to roll on
- 洪流x1 | Chapter Rank #228a powerful current; a flood (often fig., e.g. a flood of ideas)
- 将x5 | Chapter Rank #28to desire; to invite; to requestwill; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])(bound form) a general; (literary) to command; to lead; (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
- 困x1 | Chapter Rank #229to trap; to surround; hard-pressed; stranded; destitutesleepy; tired
- 死x2 | Chapter Rank #99to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned
- 松江x1 | Chapter Rank #230Songjiang suburban district of Shanghai
- 被x4 | Chapter Rank #40quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu : 3 you2] to "go on a trip")
- 俘虏x1 | Chapter Rank #231captive
- 后x2 | Chapter Rank #100empress; queen; (archaic) monarch; rulersurname Houback; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; post-
- 许多x1 | Chapter Rank #232many; a lot of; much
- 枪械弹药x1 | Chapter Rank #233
- 把x3 | Chapter Rank #57to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb})handle
- 这个x4 | Chapter Rank #41(pronoun) this; (adjective) this
- 可怜x1 | Chapter Rank #234pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on
- 家伙x1 | Chapter Rank #235household dish, implement or furniture; domestic animal; (coll.) guy; chap; weapon
- 给x2 | Chapter Rank #101to supply; to provideto; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier)
- 赎回x1 | Chapter Rank #236to redeem
- 联军x1 | Chapter Rank #237allied armies
- 败绩x1 | Chapter Rank #238to be utterly defeated; to be routed
- 受困x1 | Chapter Rank #239trapped; stranded
- 李鸿章x5 | Chapter Rank #29Li Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat
- 淮x4 | Chapter Rank #42name of a river
- 军x4 | Chapter Rank #43(bound form) army; military
- 出场x1 | Chapter Rank #240(of a performer) to come onto the stage to perform; (of an athlete) to enter the arena to compete; (fig.) to enter the scene (e.g. a new product); (of an examinee etc) to leave the venue
- 人手不足x1 | Chapter Rank #241
- 其x4 | Chapter Rank #44his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it)
- 实力x1 | Chapter Rank #242strength
- 与x3 | Chapter Rank #58to take part in(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 bestow
- 极端x1 | Chapter Rank #243extreme
- 不成比例x1 | Chapter Rank #244
- 幸亏x1 | Chapter Rank #245fortunately; luckily
- 学x1 | Chapter Rank #246to learn; to study; to imitate; science; -ology
- 曾国藩x6 | Chapter Rank #20Zeng Guofan (1811-1872), Qing dynasty politician and military man
- 一x3 | Chapter Rank #59one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- 不要命x1 | Chapter Rank #247
- 二x1 | Chapter Rank #248two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid
- 要钱x1 | Chapter Rank #249to charge; to demand payment
- 先x1 | Chapter Rank #250beforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now; (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
- 武装到牙齿x1 | Chapter Rank #251
- 而后x2 | Chapter Rank #102after that; then
- 又x2 | Chapter Rank #103(once) again; also; both... and...; and yet; (used for emphasis) anyway
- 匹x1 | Chapter Rank #252(bound form) matching; comparable to; (bound form) alone; single; one of a pair; classifier for horses, mules etc (Taiwan pr. [pi1]); classifier for cloth: bolt; horsepowerclassifier for cloth: bolt
- 马x2 | Chapter Rank #104surname Ma; abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]horse; CL:匹[pi3]; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess
- 跃出x1 | Chapter Rank #253
- 作x1 | Chapter Rank #254(bound form) worker; (bound form) workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)to do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign; to regard as; to consider to be; to be; to act the part of; to feel (itchy, nauseous etc); writings; works
- 生还x1 | Chapter Rank #255to return alive; to survive
- 想x2 | Chapter Rank #105to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
- 亲自x1 | Chapter Rank #256personally; in person; oneself