- surging forward with great momentum; unfolding on a magnificent scale
- to learn (sth); to learn about
- to lead to; to trigger; to initiate; to cause; to evoke (emotions)
- to sway; to waver; to rock; to rattle; to destabilize; to pose a challenge to
- dense; thick (fog, clouds etc); to have a strong interest in; deep; fully saturated (color)
- to be pregnant; to produce offspring; to nurture (a development, school of thought, artwork etc); fig. replete with (culture etc)
- to present to a superior; memorial; petition; to present (a certain appearance); to assume (a shape); to be (a certain color)
- (numerical, statistical) index; (math.) exponent; index; exponential (function, growth)
- level; grade; rank; step (of stairs); CL:個|个[ge4]; classifier: step, level
- to grow; to increase
- sinologist; scholar of Chinese
- to pursue; to track down; to search
- 中土 Zhōng Tǔ: 中土 Zhong1 Tu3: China-Turkey; Sino-Turkish中土 Zhōng tǔ: 中土 Zhong1 tu3: (literary) the Central Plains of China; (literary) China
- to be fascinated; to be rapt; to long for; to dream of
- long-established; time-honored
- one day; sometime in the future
- Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
- end (of a period); last part; final phase
- worldwide; entire world
- sinology; Chinese studies (in foreign schools); Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics
- (bound form) father; (bound form) male relative of father's generation (as in 伯父[bo2 fu4]); (computing) (bound form) parent-
- 子 zǐ: 子 zi3: son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-子 zi: 子 zi5: noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
- (literary) wise; wisdom
- original name; real name; (of foreigners) first name; given name
- Fitzgerald (name)
- almost; nearly; more or less; about the same; good enough; not bad
- world war
- cherished desire; dream; craving; wish; aspiration
- modern history
- unrest (social or political); turmoil; upheaval; commotion
- 明朝 míng zhāo: 明朝 ming2 zhao1: tomorrow morning; the following morning明朝 Míng cháo: 明朝 Ming2 chao2: Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
- the final years (of a regime)
- to set foot on (a foreign land etc); to tread; (fig.) to enter (a new sphere)
- Italy
- The Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
- missionary
- Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), Jesuit missionary and translator in Ming China
- to write (used before or after a quoted passage)
- wide; vast
- (idiom) not knowing anything at all; completely ignorant