Vocabulary: 传习录
- to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture
- limb
- Du Fu (712-770), great Tang dynasty poet
- revered master
- pine; pine tree; CL:棵[ke1]
- I (spoken by an old man)
- spirit; fairy; elf; sprite; genie
- known (to science)
- blind date; arranged interview to evaluate a proposed marriage partner (Taiwan pr. [xiang4 qin1]); to be deeply attached to each other
- almost; nearly; more or less; about the same; good enough; not bad
- memorial activity 35 days after a person's death
- the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
- Hanoi, capital of Vietnam
- see 沁陽市|沁阳市[Qin4 yang2 Shi4]
- Jiading district of northwest Shanghai; final reign name 1208-1224 of South Song emperor Ningzong 寧宗|宁宗[Ning2 zong1]
- lit. progenitor of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), title of Khubilai Khan (1215-1294), first Yuan dynasty emperor, reigned 1260-1294
- Guozijian, the highest educational administrative body in imperial China, in some dynasties also functioning as the highest institution of academic research and learning (Imperial College, aka Imperial Academy)
- to offer a libation; person who performs the libation before a banquet; senior member of a profession; important government post in imperial China
- physiology
- to hinder; (in the negative or interrogative) (no) harm; (what) harm
- addicted to; fond of; stem corresponding to -phil or -phile
- distressed; embarrassed
- to be caused by
- farming; to work the land
- merchant
- still possesses; yet retains (some positive attribute that contrasts with another of its attributes)
- compass; a rule; regulation; to admonish; to plan; to scheme
- diagram; picture; drawing; chart; map; CL:張|张[zhang1]; to plan; to scheme; to attempt; to pursue; to seek
- livelihood
- to mislead; to misguide; misleading
- vigor; strength; vitality
- to use (sth) in an ingenious way; marvelously effective use
- 三元 Sān yuán: 三元 San1 yuan2: see 三元區|三元区[San1 yuan2 Qu1]三元 sān yuán: 三元 san1 yuan2: (old) first place in civil service examinations at three levels: provincial 解元[jie4 yuan2], metropolitan 會元|会元[hui4 yuan2] and palace 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2]
- at one go; at a stretch; for a period of time; forming a gang
- to breathe
- essential factor; key constituent
- oneself; one's own family
- to surpass; to exceed; to outstrip
- to adhere; attachment