Vocabulary: 伏尔泰传
- 血 xuè: 血 xue4: blood; colloquial pr. [xie3]; CL:滴[di1],片[pian4]血 xiě: 血 xie3: see 血[xue4]
- whole city
- to spy upon; to lie in wait for (an opportunity)
- equivocal; ambiguous
- according to; in light of
- initial stage; beginning period
- statement
- to see off; to send off
- today; the present time; now
- to sneer at sb; to ridicule
- to avoid; to shun; to flee; to escape; to keep away from; to leave; to hide from
- fatal; mortal; deadly; to sacrifice one's life
- first; first time; for the first time
- to show up; present (at the scene)
- astonishing
- insane; mad; wild
- to draw; to paint; to depict; to portray
- 金星 jīn xīng: 金星 jin1 xing1: gold star; stars (that one sees from blow to the head etc)金星 Jīn xīng: 金星 Jin1 xing1: Venus (planet)
- 蓝 lán: 蓝 lan2: blue; indigo plant蓝 Lán: 蓝 Lan2: surname Lan
- decrepit and behind the times; old; useless; (humble) I; me (used by the elderly)
- outer clothing; semblance; appearance
- a staff; a rod; cane; walking stick; to flog with a stick (old)
- market; city; municipality (administrative unit); (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods
- doorway; gate; CL:個|个[ge4]
- crowded; to throng; congestion
- to get out of the way
- guard; bodyguard
- to receive; to answer (the phone); to meet or welcome sb; to connect; to catch; to join; to extend; to take one's turn on duty; to take over for sb
- to yell; to shout; to call out for (a person)
- defender; defending counsel
- (in former times) coming-of-age ceremony at 20 years
- 幕 mù: 幕 mu4: curtain or screen; canopy or tent; headquarters of a general; act (of a play)幕 mù: 幕 mu4: curtain; screen
- on stage
- each person; everybody; per person
- laurel (as a symbol of victory or merit)
- strong; vigorous; large-scale
- extremely; awfully
- brains; mind; skull; (fig.) gist (of a matter); leader; boss
- lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers; innumerable; thousands upon thousands
- facing execution
- to watch; to view
- to live up to