Vocabulary: 传习录
- 大夫 dài fu: 大夫 dai4 fu5: doctor; physician大夫 dà fū: 大夫 da4 fu1: senior official (in imperial China)
- to strive for favor
- 刺 cī: 刺 ci1: (onom.) whoosh刺 cì: 刺 ci4: thorn; sting; thrust; to prick; to pierce; to stab; to assassinate; to murder
- Wei State (407-225 BC), one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄; Wei State or Cao Wei 曹魏 (220-265), the most powerful of the Three Kingdoms
- Horizontal Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
- 欢 huān: 欢 huan1: joyous; happy; pleased欢 huān: 欢 huan1: hubbub; clamor欢 huān: 欢 huan1: a breed of horse
- joyous; happy; pleased
- to jump; to leap; to bound; to skip
- dim (eyesight); blurred (vision)
- senior provincial official in imperial China
- county magistrate (during Tang to Qing times)
- prime minister (in feudal China)
- to hold power; in office
- proud; arrogant; to despise; unyielding; to defy
- 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
- to degenerate; impoverished; to fall (into poverty); to be reduced (to begging)
- of short duration; brief; momentary
- to eliminate; to dispel; resolution
- to dissipate
- (coll.) even if
- calamity
- deprivation; distressed; miserable
- exceptionally; not one's responsibility or job
- to achieve; to implement; to realize; to bring about
- desire; wish
- to drive a wedge between (allies, partners etc)
- to separate; to cut off
- enemy
- concerned; worried; disturbed; anxious
- to extend; to spread; to popularize; generalization; promotion (of a product etc)
- in succession; following closely
- detailed listing; specific item
- professor; to instruct; to lecture on; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- individual; personal; oneself
- family; clan
- different; dissimilar
- enlightened; open-minded; enlightenment
- to be like sth; similar to; alike