Vocabulary: 食不厌精：舌尖上的孔子
from 樊登讲论语：学而
- 米x1 | Chapter Rank #152uncooked rice; meter (unit of length); (slang) Chinese yuansurname Mi
- 认为x1 | Chapter Rank #153to believe; to think; to consider; to feel
- 主食x2 | Chapter Rank #83staple food
- 越x2 | Chapter Rank #84generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods; abbr. for Vietnam 越南to exceed; to climb over; to surpass; the more... the more
- 精x1 | Chapter Rank #154essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic)
- 好x2 | Chapter Rank #85to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone togood; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello
- 老人家x1 | Chapter Rank #155polite term for old woman or man
- 胃口x1 | Chapter Rank #156appetite; liking
- 越来越x1 | Chapter Rank #157more and more
- 差x1 | Chapter Rank #158different; wrong; mistaken; to fall short; to lack; not up to standard; inferior; Taiwan pr. [cha1]difference; discrepancy; (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction); (literary) a little; somewhat; slightlyto send (on an errand); (archaic) person sent on such an errand; job; official postused in 參差|参差[cen1 ci1]
- 粗粮x3 | Chapter Rank #54coarse grains (maize, sorghum etc)
- 消化x3 | Chapter Rank #55to digest (food); (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process
- 不了x1 | Chapter Rank #159no thanks (used to politely but informally decline)(as a resultative verb suffix) unable to (do sth); (pattern: {verb} + 個|个[ge5] + ~) without end; incessantly
- 我x10 | Chapter Rank #10I; me; my
- 有x11 | Chapter Rank #8to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)
- 一x4 | Chapter Rank #30one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- 天x1 | Chapter Rank #160day; sky; heaven
- 见到x1 | Chapter Rank #161to see
- 阎崇年x2 | Chapter Rank #86
- 先生x4 | Chapter Rank #31teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.); husband; (dialect) doctor; CL:位[wei4]
- 当时x3 | Chapter Rank #56immediately; right thenthen; at that time
- 八x1 | Chapter Rank #162eight
- 十七岁x1 | Chapter Rank #163
- 依然x1 | Chapter Rank #164still; as before
- 耳聪目明x1 | Chapter Rank #165sharp ears and keen eyes (idiom); keen and alert; perceptive
- 身体x1 | Chapter Rank #166the body; one's health
- 很x3 | Chapter Rank #57very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- 请教x1 | Chapter Rank #167to ask for guidance; to consult
- 养生x2 | Chapter Rank #87to maintain good health; to raise a child or animal; curing (of concrete etc)
- 之x2 | Chapter Rank #88(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]); him; her; it
- 方x1 | Chapter Rank #168square; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; prescription (medicine); just when; only or just; classifier for square things; abbr. for square or cubic metersurname Fang
- 夫人x1 | Chapter Rank #169lady; madam; Mrs.; CL:位[wei4]
- 告诉x1 | Chapter Rank #170to tell; to inform; to let knowto press charges; to file a complaint
- 老爷子x1 | Chapter Rank #171my (your etc) old father; polite appellation for an elderly male
- 只x3 | Chapter Rank #58only; merely; justgrain that has begun to ripenclassifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
- 细粮x1 | Chapter Rank #172
- 虽说x1 | Chapter Rank #173though; although
- 很多x2 | Chapter Rank #89
- 建议x1 | Chapter Rank #174to propose; to suggest; to recommend; proposal; suggestion; recommendation (CL:點|点[dian3])
- 说x3 | Chapter Rank #59to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrineto persuade
- 好处x1 | Chapter Rank #175easy to get along withbenefit; advantage; merit; gain; profit; also pr. [hao3chu4]
- 但x2 | Chapter Rank #90but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just
- 老人x2 | Chapter Rank #91old man or woman; the elderly; one's aged parents or grandparents
- 来说x1 | Chapter Rank #176
- 咽不下x1 | Chapter Rank #177
- 去x1 | Chapter Rank #178to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- 也x4 | Chapter Rank #32surname Yealso; too; as well; (not ...) either; (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]
- 难x1 | Chapter Rank #179difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not gooddisaster; distress; to scold
- 所以x2 | Chapter Rank #92therefore; as a result; so; the reason why
- 饮食x1 | Chapter Rank #180eating and drinking; food and drink; diet