Vocabulary: 前言
from 楚辞选
- 二十多岁x1 | Chapter Rank #235
- 做x2 | Chapter Rank #72to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)
- 楚怀王x1 | Chapter Rank #236King Huai of Chu (reigned 328-299 BC); later King Huai of Chu (reigned 208-205 BC)
- 左x1 | Chapter Rank #237surname Zuoleft; the Left (politics); east; unorthodox; queer; wrong; differing; opposite
- 徒x1 | Chapter Rank #238surname Tu(bound form) disciple; apprentice; believer; (derog.) wrongdoer (as in 騙徒|骗徒[pian4 tu2] "swindler" or 叛徒[pan4 tu2] "traitor" etc); (bound form) on foot; (bound form) bare; empty; (bound form) to no avail; in vain; (bound form) merely; just; only; (bound form) prison sentence
- 种x2 | Chapter Rank #73to plant; to grow; to cultivateseed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts
- 仅次于x1 | Chapter Rank #239second only to ...; ranking behind only ...
- 楚x2 | Chapter Rank #74surname Chu; abbr. for Hubei 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3] and Hunan 湖南省[Hu2 nan2 Sheng3] provinces together; Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (722–221 BC)distinct; clear; orderly; pain; suffering; deciduous bush used in Chinese medicine (genus Vitex); punishment cane (old)
- 相x1 | Chapter Rank #240each other; one another; mutually; fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶[pi2 pa5] (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品[pin3])surname Xiangappearance; portrait; picture; government minister; (physics) phase; (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features); to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)
- 高级x1 | Chapter Rank #241high level; high grade; advanced; high-ranking
- 官职x1 | Chapter Rank #242an official position; a job in the bureaucracy
- 在政治上x1 | Chapter Rank #243
- 一方面x3 | Chapter Rank #34on the one hand
- 主张x2 | Chapter Rank #75to advocate; to stand for; view; position; stand; proposition; viewpoint; assertion; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 励行x1 | Chapter Rank #244
- 法治x1 | Chapter Rank #245rule of law; to rule by law
- 任用x1 | Chapter Rank #246to appoint; to assign
- 贤人x1 | Chapter Rank #247great person of the past; venerable forebear; the great and the good
- 因而x2 | Chapter Rank #76therefore; as a result; thus; and as a result, ...
- 得罪x1 | Chapter Rank #248to commit an offense; to violate the law; excuse me! (formal); see also 得罪[de2 zui5]to offend sb; to make a faux pas; a faux pas; see also 得罪[de2 zui4]
- 腐朽x1 | Chapter Rank #249rotten; decayed; decadent; degenerate
- 贵族x1 | Chapter Rank #250lord; nobility; nobleman; noblewoman; aristocrat; aristocracy
- 联合x1 | Chapter Rank #251to combine; to join; unite; alliance
- 来x1 | Chapter Rank #252to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- 对抗x1 | Chapter Rank #253to withstand; to resist; to stand off; antagonism; confrontation
- 咄咄逼人x1 | Chapter Rank #254overbearing; forceful; aggressive; menacing; imperious
- 引起x1 | Chapter Rank #255to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse
- 秦王x2 | Chapter Rank #77
- 痛恨x1 | Chapter Rank #256to detest; to loathe; to abhor
- 派x1 | Chapter Rank #257(literary) tributary; branch of a river; clique; school; group; faction; (bound form) style; manner; to send (a person or resource); to dispatch; to allocate (a resource or task); to appoint (sb); classifier for factions, groups etc; (preceded by 一[yi1]) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc; (loanword) pi (Greek letter Π, π); the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159...; (loanword) pieused in 派司[pa1 si5]
- 张仪x1 | Chapter Rank #258Zhang Yi (-309 BC), political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
- 败类x1 | Chapter Rank #259scum of a community; degenerate
- 勾结x1 | Chapter Rank #260to collude with; to collaborate with; to gang up with
- 起来x1 | Chapter Rank #261to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qi3lai2](after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state; indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]); indicating completion; (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment; also pr. [qi3lai5]
- 竭力x1 | Chapter Rank #262to do one's utmost
- 排挤x1 | Chapter Rank #263to crowd out; to push aside; to supplant
- 结果x1 | Chapter Rank #264outcome; result; consequence; in the end; as a result; to kill; to dispatchto bear fruit
- 果然x1 | Chapter Rank #265really; sure enough; as expected; if indeed
- 被x2 | Chapter Rank #78quilt; 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")
- 放逐x1 | Chapter Rank #266to banish; to deport; to send into exile; to be marooned
- 出去x1 | Chapter Rank #267to go out
- 天x2 | Chapter Rank #79day; sky; heaven
- 削弱x1 | Chapter Rank #268to weaken; to impair; to cripple
- 最后x1 | Chapter Rank #269final; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
- 自x1 | Chapter Rank #270(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
- 沉x1 | Chapter Rank #271to submerge; to immerse; to sink; to keep down; to lower; to drop; deep; profound; heavy
- 汨罗江x1 | Chapter Rank #272Miluo River in Hunan province, tributary of the Xiang River 湘江[Xiang1 Jiang1], flows into Dongting Lake 洞庭湖[Dong4 ting2 Hu2]
- 月x1 | Chapter Rank #273moon; month; monthly; CL:個|个[ge4],輪|轮[lun2]
- 不易x2 | Chapter Rank #80not easy to do sth; difficult; unchanging
- 断定x2 | Chapter Rank #81to conclude; to determine; to come to a judgment