Vocabulary: 三见西太后
from 笨人的成圣之道：曾国藩
- 大家x1 | Chapter Rank #239everyone; influential family; great expert
- 不x6 | Chapter Rank #28no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 他x9 | Chapter Rank #14(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])
- 谁x1 | Chapter Rank #240who; also pr. [shui2]
- 此后x1 | Chapter Rank #241after this; afterwards; hereafter
- 将x7 | Chapter Rank #22will; 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)to desire; to invite; to request
- 沿袭x1 | Chapter Rank #242to carry on as before; to follow (an old custom etc)
- 七x5 | Chapter Rank #37seven; 7
- 慈禧太后x2 | Chapter Rank #137Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (1835-1908), regent 1861-1908
- 进程x1 | Chapter Rank #243course of events; process; (computing) process (a running instance of a program)
- 步步x1 | Chapter Rank #244step by step; at every step
- 行x4 | Chapter Rank #53(bound form) row; line; (bound form) line of business; trade; profession; (bound form) commercial firm; (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age); (in data tables) row; (Tw) column; classifier for rows or linesused in 道行[dao4 heng2](bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit; (bound form) temporary; makeshift; (bound form) current; in circulation; (bound form) to do; to perform; capable; competent; all right; OK!; will do; behavior; conduct (Taiwan pr. [xing4]); (literary) about to; soon
- 向x2 | Chapter Rank #138towards; to face; to turn towards; direction; to support; to side with; shortly before; formerly; always; all along; (suffix) suitable for ...; oriented to ...surname Xiangto tend toward; to guidedirection; orientation; to face; to turn toward; to; towards; shortly before; formerly
- 终点x1 | Chapter Rank #245the end; end point; finishing line (in a race); destination; terminus; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 这个x1 | Chapter Rank #246(pronoun) this; (adjective) this
- 过程x1 | Chapter Rank #247course of events; process
- 惨淡x1 | Chapter Rank #248dark; gloomy; dismal; by painstaking effort
- 而x1 | Chapter Rank #249and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast)
- 凄楚x1 | Chapter Rank #250sad; wretched; miserable
- 难言x1 | Chapter Rank #251
- 充满x1 | Chapter Rank #252full of; brimming with; very full; permeated
- 了x21 | Chapter Rank #4(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)to finish; (used with 得[de2] or 不[bu4] after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了[wang4 bu5 liao3] "cannot forget"); (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無|无[wu2] or 不[bu4]) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least(of eyes) bright; clear-sighted; to understand clearly
- 智者x1 | Chapter Rank #253sage; wise man; clever and knowledgeable person
- 行至x1 | Chapter Rank #254
- 顶峰x1 | Chapter Rank #255peak; summit; fig. high point; masterpiece
- 无尽x1 | Chapter Rank #256endless; inexhaustible
- 悲凉x1 | Chapter Rank #257sorrowful; dismal
- 五十八岁x1 | Chapter Rank #258
- 这x4 | Chapter Rank #54(coll.) this(pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)
- 一x8 | Chapter Rank #17one; 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
- 年x13 | Chapter Rank #9surname Nianyear; CL:個|个[ge4]grain; harvest (old)
- 年底x1 | Chapter Rank #259the end of the year; year-end
- 日记x4 | Chapter Rank #55diary; CL:則|则[ze2],本[ben3],篇[pian1]
- 中x3 | Chapter Rank #79within; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during; (dialect) OK; all rightto hit (a target); to be struck by (a bullet, illness etc); to win (a prize or lottery)(bound form) China; Chinese; surname Zhong
- 不厌其烦x1 | Chapter Rank #260not to mind taking all the trouble (idiom); to take great pains; to be very patient
- 地x1 | Chapter Rank #261-ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunctearth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]
- 记述x1 | Chapter Rank #262to write an account (of events)
- 入x8 | Chapter Rank #18to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時|入时[ru4 shi2]); abbr. for 入聲|入声[ru4 sheng1]; (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese 入 "iri")
- 京x6 | Chapter Rank #29surname Jing; short name for Beijing 北京[Bei3 jing1]; Gin or Jing, ethnic minority of China, descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living mainly in Guangxi; Kinh, the ethnic majority in Vietnamcapital city of a country; big; algebraic term for a large number (old); artificial mound (old)
- 之后x1 | Chapter Rank #263after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
- 连续x1 | Chapter Rank #264continuous; in a row; serial; consecutive
- 三日x1 | Chapter Rank #265
- 觐见x1 | Chapter Rank #266to have an audience (with the Emperor)
- 两x5 | Chapter Rank #38two; both; some; a few; tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jin1] (old)
- 宫太后x2 | Chapter Rank #139
- 详情x1 | Chapter Rank #267details; particulars
- 同治x3 | Chapter Rank #80reign name of Qing emperor (1861-1875)
- 十二月x3 | Chapter Rank #81December; twelfth month (of the lunar year)
- 十四日x1 | Chapter Rank #268
- 答x3 | Chapter Rank #82bound form having the same meaning as the free word 答[da2], used in 答應|答应[da1 ying5], 答理[da1 li5] etcto answer; to reply; to respond