Vocabulary: 崇俭戒盈
from 帝范 臣轨 庭训格言（精）
- 知止不殆x2 | Chapter Rank #221
- 道理x1 | Chapter Rank #446reason; argument; sense; principle; basis; justification; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 说x13 | Chapter Rank #20to persuadeto speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine
- 祖宗x2 | Chapter Rank #222ancestor; forebear
- 相传x2 | Chapter Rank #223to pass on; to hand down; tradition has it that ...; according to legend
- 家法x3 | Chapter Rank #137the rules and discipline that apply within a family; stick used for punishing children or servants; traditions of an artistic or academic school of thought, passed on from master to pupil
- 勤俭x3 | Chapter Rank #138hardworking and frugal
- 敦朴x3 | Chapter Rank #139
- 为x19 | Chapter Rank #12as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice)because of; for; to
- 世上x1 | Chapter Rank #447on earth
- 财物x4 | Chapter Rank #97property; belongings
- 天地x5 | Chapter Rank #77heaven and earth; world; scope; field of activity
- 所x8 | Chapter Rank #34actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 生x6 | Chapter Rank #58to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire); to live; to be alive; life; raw; uncooked; unprocessed; unfamiliar; strange; (bound form) student; person engaged in a field; (bound form) male role in traditional opera; (bound form) life; lifetime; (bound form) means of livelihood; (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]); (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- 能x4 | Chapter Rank #98surname Nengcan; to be able to; might possibly; ability; (physics) energy
- 用来x6 | Chapter Rank #59to be used for
- 养人x2 | Chapter Rank #224
- 十分x3 | Chapter Rank #140very; completely; utterly; extremely; absolutely; hundred percent; to divide into ten equal parts
- 有限x5 | Chapter Rank #78limited; finite
- 如果x4 | Chapter Rank #99if; in case; in the event that
- 节x7 | Chapter Rank #50joint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar); seasonal festival; (bound form) to economize; to save; (bound form) moral integrity; chastity; classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc; knot (nautical miles per hour)see 節骨眼|节骨眼[jie1 gu5 yan3]
- 用x18 | Chapter Rank #15to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions); usefulness; utility; (bound form) expense; outlay; (courteous) to eat; to drink; (literary) hence; therefore
- 自x4 | Chapter Rank #100(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
- 可x2 | Chapter Rank #225used in 可汗[ke4 han2](prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very; but; however
- 有余x1 | Chapter Rank #448to have an abundance
- 若x3 | Chapter Rank #141used in 般若[bo1 re3]; used in 蘭若|兰若[lan2 re3]to seem; like; as; if
- 奢x4 | Chapter Rank #101extravagant
- 则x8 | Chapter Rank #35(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items
- 很快x2 | Chapter Rank #226
- 就x11 | Chapter Rank #25(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after; (same as 就是[jiu4 shi4]) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly; only; as little as; as much as; as many as; to approach; to move towards; to undertake; to engage in; (often followed by 著|着[zhe5]) taking advantage of; (of food) to go with; with regard to; concerning; (bound form) to reach; to attain (as in 一蹴而就[yi1 cu4 er2 jiu4]); (pattern: 就[jiu4] ... 也[ye3] ...) even if ... still ...; (pattern: 不[bu4] ... 就[jiu4] ...) if not ... then must be ...
- 完x1 | Chapter Rank #449to finish; to be over; whole; complete; entire
- 了x11 | Chapter Rank #26(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)to finish; (used with 得[de2] or 不[bu4] after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了[wang4 bu5 liao3] "cannot forget"); (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無|无[wu2] or 不[bu4]) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least(of eyes) bright; clear-sighted; to understand clearly
- 希望x2 | Chapter Rank #227to hope; a hope; a wish
- 人们x4 | Chapter Rank #102people
- 不要x2 | Chapter Rank #228don't!; must not
- 追求x1 | Chapter Rank #450to pursue (a goal etc) stubbornly; to seek after; to woo
- 更x2 | Chapter Rank #229more; even more; further; still; still moreto change or replace; to experience; one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided; watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)
- 染上x1 | Chapter Rank #451to catch (a disease); to get (a bad habit)
- 酗酒x1 | Chapter Rank #452heavy drinking; to get drunk; to drink to excess
- 等x6 | Chapter Rank #60to wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
- 不良风气x1 | Chapter Rank #453
- 训x18 | Chapter Rank #16to teach; to train; to admonish; (bound form) instruction (from superiors); teachings; rule
- 曰x15 | Chapter Rank #17to speak; to say
- 朕x13 | Chapter Rank #21(used by an emperor or king) I; me; we (royal "we"); (literary) omen
- 天下x12 | Chapter Rank #23land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule
- 君x1 | Chapter Rank #454monarch; lord; gentleman; ruler
- 何求x1 | Chapter Rank #455
- 而x26 | Chapter Rank #5and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast)
- 不得x2 | Chapter Rank #230must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot
- 现今x1 | Chapter Rank #456now; nowadays; modern