Vocabulary: 伏尔泰传
- 落 là: 落 la4: to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind落 lào: 落 lao4: colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds落 lùo: 落 luo4: to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out; to lower; to decline or sink; to lag or fall behind; to fall onto; to rest with; to get or receive; to write down; whereabouts; settlement
- egotistical; arrogant; brassy
- 好事 hǎo shì: 好事 hao3 shi4: good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity; happy occasion; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead好事 hào shì: 好事 hao4 shi4: to be meddlesome
- thus; thereby
- to agree; to go along with; to echo (what sb says)
- solemn; dignified; stately
- curtain
- surgeon; as opposed to physician 內科醫生|内科医生[nei4 ke1 yi1 sheng1], who works primarily by administering drugs
- human skeleton; human skull
- a skill; mastery of a trade; by oneself; without outside help
- dedicated; devoted; persistent; to persist in; to cling to; (Buddhism) attachment
- slip of paper
- heresy
- to die for a just cause
- to hear (a case)
- to interrogate; to question; Taiwan pr. [ju2]
- (bound form) to ask; to inquire; (bound form) to interrogate; to question; (bound form) news; information
- oral confession (as opposed to 筆供|笔供[bi3 gong4]); statement; deposition
- ticket; ballot; banknote; CL:張|张[zhang1]; person held for ransom; amateur performance of Chinese opera; classifier for groups, batches, business transactions
- to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment)
- death penalty; capital punishment
- to banish (to an army post, as a punishment)
- judgment (by a court of law); to pass judgment on; to sentence
- from start to finish (idiom)
- unjust charge or verdict; miscarriage of justice; frame-up
- grieved; pained
- to inquire
- who
- to reply; to answer; reply; answer
- to commit a crime; crime; offense
- 哪里 nǎ lǐ: 哪里 na3 li3: where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪裡|哪里哪里 nǎ lǐ: 哪里 na3 li3: where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment
- iron club; steel rod
- arm
- 骨 gū: 骨 gu1: used in 骨碌碌[gu1 lu4 lu4]; used in 骨碌[gu1 lu5]; used in 骨朵[gu1 duo5]骨 gǔ: 骨 gu3: bone
- rib; CL:根[gen1]
- afterward; later; subsequently; following that
- wheel
- execution by fire; burning at the stake
- pronoun; synonym; byword
- voluntary
- life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:條|条[tiao2])
- to feel compassion for; to pity