Vocabulary: 第二章 身在老家心在京
from 帝王师：张居正
- 独裁者x3 | Chapter Rank #550dictator; autocrat
- 宣言x2 | Chapter Rank #887declaration; manifesto
- 索要x1 | Chapter Rank #2156to ask for; to request; to demand
- 恭敬地x1 | Chapter Rank #2157
- 交到x1 | Chapter Rank #2158
- 手上x1 | Chapter Rank #2159
- 革职x1 | Chapter Rank #2160to sack; to remove from a position; to depose
- 哦x1 | Chapter Rank #2161oh (interjection indicating doubt or surprise)to chantoh (interjection indicating that one has just learned sth)sentence-final particle that conveys informality, warmth, friendliness or intimacy; may also indicate that one is stating a fact that the other person is not aware of
- 打开x1 | Chapter Rank #2162to open; to show (a ticket); to turn on; to switch on
- 观看x1 | Chapter Rank #2163to watch; to view
- 越来越x1 | Chapter Rank #2164more and more
- 难看x1 | Chapter Rank #2165ugly; unsightly
- 啪x1 | Chapter Rank #2166(onom.) bang; pop; pow
- 桌子x1 | Chapter Rank #2167table; desk; CL:張|张[zhang1],套[tao4]
- 怒骂x1 | Chapter Rank #2168to verbally abuse
- 混账x3 | Chapter Rank #551shameful; absolutely disgraceful!
- 噤若寒蝉x1 | Chapter Rank #2169to keep quiet out of fear (idiom)
- 静x1 | Chapter Rank #2170still; calm; quiet; not moving
- 喘气声x1 | Chapter Rank #2171
- 极x2 | Chapter Rank #888extremely; pole (geography, physics); utmost; top
- 看似x1 | Chapter Rank #2172to look as if; to seem
- 都御史x2 | Chapter Rank #889
- 纲x2 | Chapter Rank #890head rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link; class (taxonomy); outline; program
- 独断x2 | Chapter Rank #891to decide alone without consultation; arbitrary; dictatorial
- 权力下放x1 | Chapter Rank #2173
- 野心家x2 | Chapter Rank #892
- 所指x1 | Chapter Rank #2174the objects indicated; as pointed out
- 到底x1 | Chapter Rank #2175finally; in the end; when all is said and done; after all; to the end; to the last
- 怎么回事x1 | Chapter Rank #2176what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about?
- 经过x4 | Chapter Rank #378to pass; to go through; process; course; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 原委x1 | Chapter Rank #2177the whole story
- 父亲x1 | Chapter Rank #2178father; also pr. [fu4 qin5]; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 丧事x1 | Chapter Rank #2179funeral arrangements
- 湖广x3 | Chapter Rank #552Hubei and Hunan provinces (a Ming dynasty province)
- 官场x1 | Chapter Rank #2180officialdom; bureaucracy
- 全都x1 | Chapter Rank #2181all; without exception
- 巡按x5 | Chapter Rank #294
- 御史x2 | Chapter Rank #893imperial censor (formal title of a dynastic official)
- 江湖x1 | Chapter Rank #2182rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- 庙堂x1 | Chapter Rank #2183imperial ancestral temple; imperial court; temple
- 口碑x1 | Chapter Rank #2184public praise; public reputation; commonly held opinions; current idiom
- 回x3 | Chapter Rank #553Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims)to go back; to return; to turn back; to turn around; to reply; to answer; classifier for literary divisions (acts of a play, sections or chapters of a classic book); classifier for occurrences or timesto curve; to return; to revolve
- 所有x2 | Chapter Rank #894all; to have; to possess; to own
- 千方百计x1 | Chapter Rank #2185lit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means
- 巴结x1 | Chapter Rank #2186to fawn on; to curry favor with; to make up to
- 极端x1 | Chapter Rank #2187extreme
- 厌恶x1 | Chapter Rank #2188to loathe; to hate; disgusted with sth
- 行径x1 | Chapter Rank #2189(usu. pejorative) conduct; behavior; act; path; trail
- 借口x1 | Chapter Rank #2190to use as an excuse; excuse; pretext
- 完成x2 | Chapter Rank #895to complete; to accomplish