Vocabulary: 第二章 身在老家心在京
from 帝王师：张居正
- 陶x42 | Chapter Rank #26surname Taopottery; pleased
- 成x46 | Chapter Rank #21to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenthsurname Cheng; short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]
- 喾x40 | Chapter Rank #29one of the five legendary emperors, also called 高辛氏[Gao1 xin1 shi4]
- 叹息x6 | Chapter Rank #225to sigh; to gasp (in admiration)
- 末x1 | Chapter Rank #1629tip; end; final stage; latter part; inessential detail; powder; dust; opera role of old man
- 苦求x3 | Chapter Rank #497
- 辽东x10 | Chapter Rank #123Liaodong peninsula between Bohai 渤海 and Yellow sea; east and south of Liaoning province; east of Liao river 遼河|辽河
- 副x5 | Chapter Rank #281secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副詞|副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions
- 总兵x9 | Chapter Rank #139
- 上苍x3 | Chapter Rank #498heaven
- 赐给x1 | Chapter Rank #1630to bestow; to give
- 建功立业x3 | Chapter Rank #499to achieve or accomplish goals
- 澄清天下x1 | Chapter Rank #1631
- 志x1 | Chapter Rank #1632aspiration; ambition; the willsign; mark; to record; to write a footnote
- 小x3 | Chapter Rank #500small; tiny; few; young
- 才华x1 | Chapter Rank #1633talent; CL:份[fen4]
- 无奈x1 | Chapter Rank #1634to have no alternative; frustrated; exasperated; helpless; (conjunction) but unfortunately
- 生不逢时x1 | Chapter Rank #1635born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate); born under an unlucky star; ahead of his time
- 上司x1 | Chapter Rank #1636boss; superior
- 李成梁x47 | Chapter Rank #20
- 压x1 | Chapter Rank #1637to press; to push down; to keep under (control); pressureused in 壓根兒|压根儿[ya4 gen1 r5]; used in 壓馬路|压马路[ya4 ma3 lu4]; used in 壓板|压板[ya4 ban3]
- 明x4 | Chapter Rank #358Ming Dynasty (1368–1644); surname Ming; Ming (c. 2000 BC), fourth of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer Godbright; opposite: dark 暗[an4]; (of meaning) clear; to understand; next; public or open; wise; generic term for a sacrifice to the gods
- 帝国x3 | Chapter Rank #501empire; imperial
- 北疆x2 | Chapter Rank #782northern Xinjiang (north of the Tian Shan mountains 天山[Tian1 Shan1])northern frontier
- 大部分x1 | Chapter Rank #1638the greater part; the majority; most; Taiwan pr. [da4bu4fen4]
- 战役x3 | Chapter Rank #502military campaign
- 打x4 | Chapter Rank #359a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")(loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]
- 百战百胜x1 | Chapter Rank #1639to emerge victorious in every battle; to be ever-victorious
- 没x2 | Chapter Rank #783(negative prefix for verbs) have not; notdrowned; to end; to die; to inundate
- 几个x3 | Chapter Rank #503a few; several; how many
- 深深地x1 | Chapter Rank #1640
- 陷x1 | Chapter Rank #1641pitfall; trap; to get stuck; to sink; to cave in; to frame (false charge); to capture (a city in battle); to fall (to the enemy); defect
- 光芒x2 | Chapter Rank #784rays of light; brilliant rays; radiance
- 泥潭x1 | Chapter Rank #1642quagmire
- 不能自拔x1 | Chapter Rank #1643
- 春风x1 | Chapter Rank #1644spring breeze; (fig.) pleasant demeanor; serene atmosphere; favorable conditions; (literary) romantic encounter; an affair
- 吹x3 | Chapter Rank #504to blow; to play a wind instrument; to blast; to puff; to boast; to brag; to end in failure; to fall through
- 长城x1 | Chapter Rank #1645the Great Wall
- 站x4 | Chapter Rank #360station; to stand; to halt; to stop; branch of a company or organization; website
- 边x1 | Chapter Rank #1646side; edge; margin; border; boundary; CL:個|个[ge4]; simultaneouslysuffix of a noun of locality
- 墙上x1 | Chapter Rank #1647
- 北方x2 | Chapter Rank #785north; the northern part a country; China north of the Yellow River
- 眺望x1 | Chapter Rank #1648to survey the scene from an elevated position
- 满眼x1 | Chapter Rank #1649(of tears etc) filling the eyes; (of scenery etc) filling one's field of view
- 生命x1 | Chapter Rank #1650life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:條|条[tiao2])
- 迹象x1 | Chapter Rank #1651sign; indication; mark; indicator
- 万物x1 | Chapter Rank #1652all things; all that exists
- 复苏x1 | Chapter Rank #1653to recover (health, economic); to resuscitate; anabiosis
- 心情舒畅x1 | Chapter Rank #1654
- 叹x1 | Chapter Rank #1655to sigh; to exclaim