Vocabulary: 传习录
- 韦 Wéi: 韦 Wei2: surname Wei韦 wéi: 韦 wei2: soft leather
- CL:本[ben3],部[bu4]
- Shang Tang (1646-? BC), legendary founder of the Shang Dynasty
- identification; to identify; to recognize
- to draw up; to formulate
- first draft; to draw up (a first version)
- long and tedious; redundant; superfluous; supernumerary; verbose (of writing)
- to state; to assert
- to ask for advice; seeking instruction
- system; organization
- Lü Buwei (?291-235 BC), merchant and politician of the State of Qin 秦國|秦国[Qin2 guo2], subsequent Qin Dynasty 秦代[Qin2 dai4] Chancellor, allegedly the father of Ying Zheng 嬴政[Ying2 Zheng4], who subsequently became the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]
- Confucian scholar (old)
- King Xuan of Qi (reigned 342-324 BC)
- to destroy
- King You of Zhou (795-771 BC), last king of Western Zhou 西周[Xi1 Zhou1]
- in perfect condition; without any defect
- steps; flight of steps; step (over obstacle); fig. way out of an embarrassing situation; bench (geology)
- King Cheng of Zhou (1055-1021 BC), reigned 1042-1021 BC as the 2nd king of Western Zhou 西周[Xi1 Zhou1], son of King Wu of Zhou 周武王[Zhou1 Wu3 wang2]
- former appearance; what it used to look like
- the world in chaos; troubled times; (in Buddhism) the mortal world
- to build; to construct
- to carry out large scale construction
- to build
- school; CL:所[suo3]
- to give a name to; to dub; to christen; to designate; named after; naming
- place of interest; a place one has one's eye on
- to explain
- implement; utensil; article; object
- duty; responsibility; post
- to regard as important; to value
- season
- for many generations; generation; era; age
- absurd; preposterous; ridiculous
- unrest (social or political); turmoil; upheaval; commotion
- extravagant
- (usu. pejorative) conduct; behavior; act; path; trail
- to mention (e.g. "don't mention it")
- to sneer
- to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning
- unrelated; having nothing to do (with sth else)
- to get lost; to lose one's bearings
- direction; orientation