Vocabulary: 伏尔泰传
- 奔 bèn: 奔 ben4: to go to; to head for; towards; Taiwan pr. [ben1]奔 bēn: 奔 ben1: to hurry; to rush; to run quickly; to elope
- to eradicate; to extinguish
- tinder; source of a fire; inflammable material; (fig.) spark (of a revolution etc)
- 柴 chái: 柴 chai2: firewood; lean (of meat); thin (of a person)柴 Chái: 柴 Chai2: surname Chai
- to drown
- to be alive
- Mahler (name); Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Austrian composer
- pool; pond; (of metals etc) luster; favor or beneficence; damp; moist
- 台 Tái: 台 Tai2: Taiwan (abbr.); surname Tai台 tāi: 台 tai1: used in place names台 tái: 台 tai2: (classical) you (in letters)台 tái: 台 tai2: desk; table; counter台 tái: 台 tai2: platform; stage; terrace; stand; support; station; broadcasting station; classifier for vehicles or machines台 Tái: 台 Tai2: Taiwan (abbr.)台 tái: 台 tai2: typhoon
- to bloom; to open; to be open (to the public); to open up (to the outside); to be open-minded; unrestrained by convention; unconstrained in one's sexuality
- (literary) hard; firm; strong; exactly; precisely; barely; only just; just; only a short while ago
- to prepare; to make ready; preparation; preparatory
- to act (in a play); to perform; to put on (a performance); performance; concert; show; CL:場|场[chang3],次[ci4]
- (literary) salary according to rank; (literary) an official's rank; (literary) order; orderliness; (literary) decade
- an ideal; a dream; ideal; perfect
- to pass through
- to shed tears
- cottage
- happy; cheerful
- to lay mines
- relay station for post horses (old)
- master; host; owner; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to tell; to instruct; to command
- groom; stable lad; horsekeeper; pimp; procurer
- to hasten on with one's journey; to hurry on
- whip or lash; to flog; to whip; conductor's baton; segmented iron weapon (old); penis (of animal, served as food)
- there is no harm in; might as well
- Dijon (France)
- checkpoint (for taxation, security etc); (fig.) barrier; hurdle; red tape; CL:道[dao4]; Taiwan pr. [guan1ka3]
- recognition; to recognize
- to salute; to make one's salutations
- first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone)
- to carry within it; to be mixed in; to slip sth in; to intersperse; (hydrology etc) to entrain; to smuggle; notes smuggled into an exam
- street; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- now; nowadays; modern
- embankment; bank; levee
- 红 gōng: 红 gong1: used in 女紅|女红[nu : 3 gong1]红 hóng: 红 hong2: red; popular; revolutionary; bonus红 Hóng: 红 Hong2: surname Hong
- velvet