Vocabulary: 第六章 痛苦的抉择，弃元投明
from 帝王师：刘伯温
- 盛衰x3 | Chapter Rank #547to flourish then decline; rise and fall
- 无常x3 | Chapter Rank #548variable; changeable; fickle; impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya); ghost taking away the soul after death; to pass away; to die
- 世态炎凉x3 | Chapter Rank #549the hypocrisy of the world (idiom)
- 千万x1 | Chapter Rank #2186ten million; countless; many; one must by all means
- 落难x1 | Chapter Rank #2187to meet with misfortune; to fall into dire straits
- 势利眼x2 | Chapter Rank #902snobbish; a snob
- 难过x1 | Chapter Rank #2188to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult
- 人之常情x1 | Chapter Rank #2189human nature (idiom); a behavior that is only natural
- 一首x1 | Chapter Rank #2190
- 诗x4 | Chapter Rank #371abbr. for Shijing 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1], the Book of Songspoem; CL:首[shou3]; poetry; verse
- 中举x1 | Chapter Rank #2191to pass the provincial level imperial examination
- 门客x7 | Chapter Rank #192hanger-on; visitor (in a nobleman's house)
- 人情冷暖x2 | Chapter Rank #903
- 前面x1 | Chapter Rank #2192ahead; in front; preceding; above; also pr. [qian2 mian5]
- 相争x1 | Chapter Rank #2193to vie against one another; to fight each other; mutual aggression
- 换下x1 | Chapter Rank #2194
- 退休x1 | Chapter Rank #2195to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement
- 天天x3 | Chapter Rank #550every day
- 围着x1 | Chapter Rank #2196
- 转x1 | Chapter Rank #2197see 轉文|转文[zhuai3 wen2]to revolve; to turn; to circle about; to walk about; classifier for revolutions (per minute etc): revs, rpm; classifier for repeated actionsto turn; to change direction; to transfer; to forward (mail); (Internet) to share (sb else's content)
- 仔x1 | Chapter Rank #2198(dialect) (bound form) young manused in 仔肩[zi1 jian1](bound form) (of domestic animals or fowl) young; (bound form) fine; detailed
- 主子x1 | Chapter Rank #2199Master (term used by servant); Your Majesty; operator (of machine)
- 失x1 | Chapter Rank #2200to lose; to miss; to fail
- 势x1 | Chapter Rank #2201power; influence; potential; momentum; tendency; trend; situation; conditions; outward appearance; sign; gesture; male genitals
- 一个个x1 | Chapter Rank #2202a number of; each and every one; one by one; one after another
- 卷x1 | Chapter Rank #2203scroll; book; volume; chapter; examination paper; classifier for books, paintings: volume, scrollto roll up; (fig.) to sweep up; to engulf; to drag into (a situation); (slang) to compete to an unhealthy degree; hypercompetitive; a roll; classifier for small rolled-up things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc)to roll up; to sweep up; to carry along; a roll; classifier for rolls, spools etc
- 铺盖x1 | Chapter Rank #2204bedding; bedclothesto spread evenly over
- 郁闷x1 | Chapter Rank #2205gloomy; depressed
- 就算x1 | Chapter Rank #2206(coll.) even if
- 发牢骚x1 | Chapter Rank #2207to whine; to be grouchy
- 没辙x1 | Chapter Rank #2208at one's wit's end; unable to find a way out
- 呀x1 | Chapter Rank #2209ah (used to express surprise); (onom.) creaking(particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt)
- 前线x1 | Chapter Rank #2210front line; military front; workface; cutting edge
- 圈套x1 | Chapter Rank #2211trap; snare; trick
- 全军覆没x1 | Chapter Rank #2212total defeat of an army (idiom); fig. a complete wipeout
- 剩x1 | Chapter Rank #2213to remain; to be left; to have as remainder
- 报告x2 | Chapter Rank #904to inform; to report; to make known; report; speech; talk; lecture; CL:篇[pian1],份[fen4],個|个[ge4],通[tong4]
- 消息x3 | Chapter Rank #551(piece of) news; information; message; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- 上下x1 | Chapter Rank #2214the top and bottom of sth; the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom; to go up and down; before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context"); (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so; (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates"); all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation"); relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")
- 一片x2 | Chapter Rank #905
- 惊慌x1 | Chapter Rank #2215to panic; to be alarmed
- 赶紧x1 | Chapter Rank #2216hurriedly; without delay
- 交到x1 | Chapter Rank #2217
- 老将x1 | Chapter Rank #2218lit. old general; commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess; fig. old-timer; veteran
- 国防军x1 | Chapter Rank #2219
- 总司令x1 | Chapter Rank #2220commander-in-chief; top military commander for a country or theater of operations
- 离开x2 | Chapter Rank #906to depart; to leave
- 三三两两x1 | Chapter Rank #2221in twos and threes
- 厌恶x1 | Chapter Rank #2222to loathe; to hate; disgusted with sth
- 势利小人x1 | Chapter Rank #2223snob