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
- 一直x1 | Chapter Rank #237straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through
- 研究x1 | Chapter Rank #238research; a study; CL:項|项[xiang4]; to research; to look into
- 老x2 | Chapter Rank #107prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people); venerable (person); experienced; of long standing; always; all the time; of the past; very; outdated; (of meat etc) tough
- 并x2 | Chapter Rank #108and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to mergeto combine; to amalgamateshort name for Taiyuan 太原[Tai4 yuan2]
- 一名x1 | Chapter Rank #239
- 伟大x1 | Chapter Rank #240huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)
- 科学家x1 | Chapter Rank #241scientist
- 跳x1 | Chapter Rank #242to jump; to hop; to skip over; to bounce; to palpitate
- 出来x2 | Chapter Rank #109to come out; to appear; to arise(after a verb, indicates coming out, completion of an action, or ability to discern or detect)
- 大的x1 | Chapter Rank #243
- 真的x1 | Chapter Rank #244really; truly; indeed; real; true; genuine; (math.) proper
- 超越x1 | Chapter Rank #245to surpass; to exceed; to transcend
- 世俗x1 | Chapter Rank #246profane; secular; worldly
- 事物x1 | Chapter Rank #247thing; object
- 真正x1 | Chapter Rank #248genuine; real; true; really; indeed
- 地x1 | Chapter Rank #249earth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]-ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- 感受x1 | Chapter Rank #250to sense; perception; to feel (through the senses); to experience; a feeling; an impression; an experience
- 生x1 | Chapter Rank #251to 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])
- 而x2 | Chapter Rank #110and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast)
- 为x1 | Chapter Rank #252as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice)because of; for; to
- 快乐x2 | Chapter Rank #111happy; joyful
- 譬如x1 | Chapter Rank #253for example; for instance; such as
- 颜回x3 | Chapter Rank #66Yan Hui (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius, also known as Yan Yuan 顏淵|颜渊[Yan2 Yuan1]
- 一箪食x1 | Chapter Rank #254
- 一瓢x1 | Chapter Rank #255
- 饮x1 | Chapter Rank #256to drinkto give (animals) water to drink
- 陋巷x1 | Chapter Rank #257
- 不堪其忧x1 | Chapter Rank #258
- 回x1 | Chapter Rank #259Hui 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
- 不改其乐x1 | Chapter Rank #260
- 饿x1 | Chapter Rank #261hungry; to starve (sb)
- 成x1 | Chapter Rank #262to 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]
- 那样x1 | Chapter Rank #263that kind; that sort
- 住x1 | Chapter Rank #264to live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease; (result complement indicating firmness or a stable achieved state)
- 贫民窟x1 | Chapter Rank #265slum housing
- 认识x1 | Chapter Rank #266to know; to recognize; to be familiar with; to get acquainted with sb; knowledge; understanding; awareness; cognition
- 担心x3 | Chapter Rank #67anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious
- 他的x1 | Chapter Rank #267
- 内心x2 | Chapter Rank #112heart; innermost being; (math.) incenter
- 却是x1 | Chapter Rank #268nevertheless; actually; the fact is ...
- 改变x1 | Chapter Rank #269to change; to alter; to transform
- 不了x1 | Chapter Rank #270no thanks (used to politely but informally decline)(as a resultative verb suffix) unable to (do sth); (pattern: {verb} + 個|个[ge5] + ~) without end; incessantly
- 认为x3 | Chapter Rank #68to believe; to think; to consider; to feel
- 答案x1 | Chapter Rank #271answer; solution; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 礼节x1 | Chapter Rank #272etiquette
- 奢侈x3 | Chapter Rank #69luxurious; extravagant
- 不如x1 | Chapter Rank #273not equal to; not as good as; inferior to; it would be better to
- 节俭x1 | Chapter Rank #274frugal; economical
- 中国x1 | Chapter Rank #275China
- 历史x1 | Chapter Rank #276history; CL:門|门[men2],段[duan4]