Vocabulary: 与其奢也，宁俭：礼的根本，是有一颗柔软的心
from 樊登讲论语：学而
- 跟x3 | Chapter Rank #54heel; to follow closely; to go with; (of a woman) to marry sb; with; compared with; to; towards; and (joining two nouns)
- 有关x1 | Chapter Rank #156to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning
- 孔子x16 | Chapter Rank #3Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]
- 本质x2 | Chapter Rank #79essence; nature; innate character; intrinsic quality
- 什么x4 | Chapter Rank #38what?; something; anything
- 为什么x4 | Chapter Rank #39why?; for what reason?
- 人们x3 | Chapter Rank #55people
- 要x7 | Chapter Rank #15to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) important(bound form) to demand; to coerce
- 如此x1 | Chapter Rank #157like this; so; such
- 重视x3 | Chapter Rank #56to attach importance to sth; to value
- 这件x4 | Chapter Rank #40
- 事情x7 | Chapter Rank #16affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- 在生活中x2 | Chapter Rank #80
- 每天x1 | Chapter Rank #158every day
- 除了x1 | Chapter Rank #159apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- 劳作x1 | Chapter Rank #160work; manual labor
- 赚钱x1 | Chapter Rank #161to earn money; moneymaking
- 贸易x1 | Chapter Rank #162(commercial) trade; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 打仗x1 | Chapter Rank #163to fight a battle; to go to war
- 这些x3 | Chapter Rank #57these
- 实用x2 | Chapter Rank #81to apply in practice; practical; functional; pragmatic; applied (science)
- 之外x1 | Chapter Rank #164outside; excluding
- 非x1 | Chapter Rank #165abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africato not be; not; wrong; incorrect; non-; un-; in-; de-; to reproach; to blame; (coll.) to insist on; simply must
- 加上x1 | Chapter Rank #166plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that
- 一套x1 | Chapter Rank #167suit; a set; a collection; of the same kind; the same old stuff; set pattern of behavior
- 枷锁x1 | Chapter Rank #168stocks and chain; in fetters
- 呢x5 | Chapter Rank #28dense wool fabric (used for coats and jackets)(sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?"); (sentence-final particle) indicating that a state or situation still holds; (discourse particle) used to mark a slight pause or emphasis in speech
- 使x1 | Chapter Rank #169to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- 受到x1 | Chapter Rank #170to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc); to be ...ed (praised, educated, punished etc)
- 束缚x1 | Chapter Rank #171to bind; to tie up; to fetter; to shackle
- 做x1 | Chapter Rank #172to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)
- 很多x2 | Chapter Rank #82
- 来x3 | Chapter Rank #58to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- 维护x1 | Chapter Rank #173to defend; to safeguard; to protect; to uphold; to maintain
- 这x6 | Chapter Rank #21(pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)(coll.) this
- 不是x2 | Chapter Rank #83no; is not; notfault; blame
- 增加x1 | Chapter Rank #174to raise; to increase
- 社会x1 | Chapter Rank #175society
- 成本x1 | Chapter Rank #176(manufacturing, production etc) costs
- 吗x1 | Chapter Rank #177used in 嗎啡|吗啡[ma3 fei1](question particle for "yes-no" questions)(coll.) what?
- 那么x2 | Chapter Rank #84like that; in that way; to that extent; (before a number) ... or so; about ...; then; in that case
- 听x1 | Chapter Rank #178smile (archaic)to listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin"); classifier for canned beverages; to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]); (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
- 了x8 | Chapter Rank #12to finish; (used with 得[de2] or 不[bu4] after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了[wang4 bu5 liao3] "cannot forget"); (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無|无[wu2] or 不[bu4]) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)(of eyes) bright; clear-sighted; to understand clearly
- 话x1 | Chapter Rank #179dialect; language; spoken words; speech; talk; words; conversation; what sb said; CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
- 大为x1 | Chapter Rank #180very; greatly
- 感慨x1 | Chapter Rank #181to sigh with sorrow, regret etc; rueful; deeply moved
- 很少x1 | Chapter Rank #182
- 这么x1 | Chapter Rank #183so much; this much; how much?; this way; like this
- 表扬x1 | Chapter Rank #184to praise; to commend
- 人x16 | Chapter Rank #4person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]