Vocabulary: 菜根谭
- banquet; dinner; drinking party; feast
- 不是 bù shì: 不是 bu4 shi4: no; is not; not不是 bù shi: 不是 bu4 shi5: fault; blame
- 华 Huá: 华 Hua2: abbr. for China华 huá: 华 hua2: magnificent; splendid; flowery华 huā: 华 hua1: flower华 Huà: 华 Hua4: Mount Hua 華山|华山[Hua4 Shan1] in Shaanxi; surname Hua
- official; scholar (old)
- fame and position; official rank
- 臣 Chén: 臣 Chen2: surname Chen臣 chén: 臣 chen2: state official or subject in dynastic China; I, your servant (used in addressing the sovereign); Kangxi radical 131
- happy; carefree
- to celebrate
- to urge; urgent; pressing
- scale; scope; extent
- servant; to employ sb for a job; to manage people; to be in need of staff
- quarter (hour); moment; to carve; to engrave; to cut; oppressive; classifier for short time intervals
- effect; efficacy; to imitate
- to make friends
- overflowing; excessive; indiscriminate
- 贡 Gòng: 贡 Gong4: surname Gong贡 gòng: 贡 gong4: to offer tribute; tribute; gifts
- to flatter
- adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors
- ordinary people; commoner; civilian
- to go against; to do sth contrary to (sb's wishes)
- to surpass; better than; superior to
- to exert oneself (bound form)
- to consent; to promise; (literary) yes!
- (literary) to stare angrily; to glare
- tired; weary; fatigued
- to fish with a hook and line; to angle
- anecdote; lost or apocryphal story about famous person
- handle or shaft (of an axe etc); (of a flower, leaf or fruit) stem; sth that affords an advantage to an opponent; classifier for knives or blades
- war; conflict; CL:場|场[chang2],次[ci4]
- happy occasion; wedding
- 省事 xǐng shì: 省事 xing3 shi4: perceptive; understanding; (archaic) to handle administrative work省事 shěng shì: 省事 sheng3 shi4: to simplify matters; to save trouble
- incompetence; inability; incapable; powerless
- 5-1 (May 1st)