Vocabulary: 第一次创业：成立飞行学校
from 丰盛人生：安利创始人理查•狄维士自传
- 首付x1 | Chapter Rank #204down payment
- 军饷x1 | Chapter Rank #205a soldier's pay and provisions
- 是x8 | Chapter Rank #11to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion)
- 每个x2 | Chapter Rank #87each; every
- 大部分x1 | Chapter Rank #206the greater part; the majority; most; Taiwan pr. [da4bu4fen4]
- 寄回x1 | Chapter Rank #207
- 家x1 | Chapter Rank #208used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 父母x1 | Chapter Rank #209father and mother; parents
- 帮x1 | Chapter Rank #210to help; to assist; to support; for sb (i.e. as a help); hired (as worker); side (of pail, boat etc); outer layer; upper (of a shoe); group; gang; clique; party; secret society
- 认识x1 | Chapter Rank #211to know; to recognize; to be familiar with; to get acquainted with sb; knowledge; understanding; awareness; cognition
- 他x10 | Chapter Rank #9(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])
- 如同x1 | Chapter Rank #212like; as
- 一般x1 | Chapter Rank #213same; ordinary; so-so; common; general; generally; in general
- 所以x2 | Chapter Rank #88therefore; as a result; so; the reason why
- 不过x2 | Chapter Rank #89only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- 问x1 | Chapter Rank #214to ask; to inquire
- 决定x2 | Chapter Rank #90to decide; to determine; to make up one's mind; decision (CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4])
- 第一次x1 | Chapter Rank #215the first time; for the first time
- 创业x3 | Chapter Rank #49to begin an undertaking; to start an enterprise; entrepreneurship
- 成立x2 | Chapter Rank #91to establish; to set up; to be tenable; to hold water
- 飞行x8 | Chapter Rank #12(of planes etc) to fly; flying; flight; aviation
- 学校x1 | Chapter Rank #216school; CL:所[suo3]
- 买下x1 | Chapter Rank #217to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc)
- 底特律x1 | Chapter Rank #218Detroit, Michigan
- 找到x1 | Chapter Rank #219to find
- 由x1 | Chapter Rank #220to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...
- 派珀x1 | Chapter Rank #221
- 公司x1 | Chapter Rank #222company; firm; corporation; CL:家[jia1]
- 生产x1 | Chapter Rank #223to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child
- 单x1 | Chapter Rank #224surname Shanused in 單于|单于[chan2 yu2]bill; list; form; single; only; sole; odd number; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 螺旋桨x1 | Chapter Rank #225propeller
- 双人x1 | Chapter Rank #226two-person; double; pair; tandem
- 座x1 | Chapter Rank #227seat; base; stand; (bound form) constellation; (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g. 師座|师座[shi1 zuo4]); classifier for large immovable objects such as buildings, mountains, bridges etc
- 因为x1 | Chapter Rank #228because; owing to; on account of
- 不x2 | Chapter Rank #92no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 懂x1 | Chapter Rank #229to understand; to comprehend
- 雇用x1 | Chapter Rank #230to employ; to hire
- 一名x5 | Chapter Rank #21
- 新x2 | Chapter Rank #93new; newly; meso- (chemistry)abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xin1 jiang1]; abbr. for Singapore 新加坡[Xin1 jia1 po1]; surname Xin
- 开x2 | Chapter Rank #94to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start; to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run; to boil; to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc); (directional complement) away; off; carat (gold); abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2]; abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format
- 大x3 | Chapter Rank #50see 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)
- 急流x3 | Chapter Rank #51torrent
- 市x3 | Chapter Rank #52market; city; municipality (administrative unit); (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods
- 为了x4 | Chapter Rank #27for; for the purpose of; in order to
- 赚钱x1 | Chapter Rank #231to earn money; moneymaking
- 来x1 | Chapter Rank #232to 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])
- 支付x1 | Chapter Rank #233to pay (money)
- 费用x1 | Chapter Rank #234cost; expenditure; expense; CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4]
- 狼獾x2 | Chapter Rank #95wolverine (Gulo gulo), also named 貂熊[diao1 xiong2]
- 空中x2 | Chapter Rank #96in the sky; in the air