Vocabulary: 何莫由斯道：走正道，还是走偏门
from 樊登讲论语：学而
- 上天x1 | Chapter Rank #107Heaven; Providence; God; the sky above; to fly skywards; (euphemism) to die; to pass away; the previous day (or days)
- 给x1 | Chapter Rank #108to supply; to provideto; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier)
- 你x1 | Chapter Rank #109you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2])you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)
- 关上x1 | Chapter Rank #110to close (a door); to turn off (light, electrical equipment etc)
- 一扇门x1 | Chapter Rank #111
- 一定x1 | Chapter Rank #112surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled; a certain ...; a given ...
- 打开x1 | Chapter Rank #113to open; to show (a ticket); to turn on; to switch on
- 一扇x1 | Chapter Rank #114
- 窗x1 | Chapter Rank #115window; CL:扇[shan4]
- 生x1 | Chapter Rank #116to 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])
- 逢x1 | Chapter Rank #117to meet by chance; to come across; (of a calendar event) to come along; (of an event) to fall on (a particular day); to fawn upon
- 乱世x1 | Chapter Rank #118the world in chaos; troubled times; (in Buddhism) the mortal world
- 实在x1 | Chapter Rank #119really; actually; indeed; true; real; honest; dependable; (philosophy) reality
- 没有x1 | Chapter Rank #120haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be
- 机会x1 | Chapter Rank #121opportunity; chance; occasion; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 怎么办x1 | Chapter Rank #122what's to be done
- 如同x1 | Chapter Rank #123like; as
- 二十世纪x1 | Chapter Rank #12420th century
- 二十年代x1 | Chapter Rank #125
- 大x1 | Chapter Rank #126see 大夫[dai4 fu5]big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- 上海x1 | Chapter Rank #127Shanghai municipality (short name 滬|沪[Hu4])
- 正人君子x1 | Chapter Rank #128upright gentleman; man of honor
- 在x3 | Chapter Rank #28to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
- 上海滩x1 | Chapter Rank #129
- 难以x1 | Chapter Rank #130hard to (predict, imagine etc)
- 生存x1 | Chapter Rank #131to exist; to survive
- 出人头地x1 | Chapter Rank #132to stand out among one's peers (idiom); to excel
- 必须x1 | Chapter Rank #133to have to; must; compulsory; necessarily
- 有些x1 | Chapter Rank #134some; somewhat; rather; a bit
- 手段x1 | Chapter Rank #135method; way; means (of doing sth); skill; ability; trick; wile
- 冒险家x1 | Chapter Rank #136adventurer
- 乐园x1 | Chapter Rank #137paradise
- 学会x1 | Chapter Rank #138to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association
- 窗子x1 | Chapter Rank #139window
- 跳进x2 | Chapter Rank #52to plunge into; to jump into
- 跳出x2 | Chapter Rank #53to jump out; fig. to appear suddenly
- 试x1 | Chapter Rank #140to test; to try; experiment; examination; test
- 着x2 | Chapter Rank #54to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding ina move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to addto wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to applyaspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
- 走后门x2 | Chapter Rank #55(lit.) to enter through the back door; (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections; (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex
- 捞x1 | Chapter Rank #141to fish up; to dredge up
- 刀口x1 | Chapter Rank #142the edge of a knife; cut; incision
- 上x1 | Chapter Rank #143used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1](bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb; to get onto; to go up; to attend (class or university); (directional complement) up; (noun suffix) on; above
- 过x1 | Chapter Rank #144(experienced action marker)surname Guoto cross; to go over; to pass (time); to celebrate (a holiday); to live; to get along; excessively; too-
- 生活x1 | Chapter Rank #145to live; life; livelihood
- 那x1 | Chapter Rank #146surname Nuo(archaic) many; beautiful; how(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nei4]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case)surname Na
- 时代x1 | Chapter Rank #147Time, US weekly news magazineage; era; epoch; period (in one's life); CL:個|个[ge4]
- 造成x1 | Chapter Rank #148to bring about; to create; to cause
- 感叹x1 | Chapter Rank #149to sigh (with feeling); to lament
- 每天x1 | Chapter Rank #150every day
- 行走x1 | Chapter Rank #151to walk