Vocabulary: 伏尔泰传
- courtesy; politeness; manners; courteous; polite
- innocent; guileless; not guilty (of crime)
- to suffer a calamity; to suffer (e.g. under torture); distress
- to be surprised; to be astonished
- charges or facts about a crime; the nature of the offense
- by chance; as chance would have it
- to be convinced; to be sure; to firmly believe; to be positive that; definite news
- to redress (an injustice); to rehabilitate (sb whose reputation was unjustly sullied)
- (of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace; to touch; to make use of; to stir (emotions); to alter; abbr. for 動詞|动词[dong4 ci2], verb
- to support (a cause)
- down to; up to; to such an extent as to ...; also written 以至於|以至于[yi3 zhi4 yu2]
- to apply for sth; application form (CL:份[fen4])
- to re-examine; to recheck; (law) to conduct a judicial review; to retry (a case)
- rather than... (used in expressions of the form 與其|与其[yu3 qi2] + {verb1} + 不如[bu4 ru2] + {verb2} "rather than {verb1}, better to {verb2}")
- preferably; one would prefer to...(or not to...); would rather; (would) be better to; (to pick) the lesser of two evils
- number of people
- more than; greater than
- what one acquires; one's gains
- to save from damage; to preserve; to maintain; to keep in good repair; (Tw) security guard
- to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice
- to remedy
- error; fault; (law) negligence; delinquency
- 春 Chūn: 春 Chun1: surname Chun春 chūn: 春 chun1: spring (season); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life
- to repeal; to revoke; (computing) to undo
- public square; plaza
- crowded to bursting point; filled to overflowing; jam-packed
- to walk past; to pass by
- 大众 dà zhòng: 大众 da4 zhong4: the masses; the great bulk of the population; popular (of music, science etc)大众 Dà zhòng: 大众 Da4 zhong4: Volkswagen (automobile manufacturer)
- blessings; to wish sb well
- touching; moving
- to die tragically; to meet with a violent death
- to grant; to bestow
- widow
- (of an organization that has a duty of care) to give financial support to relatives of sb who has died or suffered serious injury
- to state; to assert
- to have the right to; to be entitled to; to have authority; powerful
- public order
- do not
- an old observation (idiom); a truism; banal comments
- repeatedly; over and over; to upend; unstable; to come and go; (of an illness) to return
- more or less; roughly; approximately