Vocabulary: 伏尔泰传
- old people; the elderly
- to eliminate; to expel; to abolish
- savage act; outrage; atrocity
- unavoidably; can't help; really; rather
- flabbergasted; astonished
- ordinary soldier
- disaster; harm; scourge; bad person; to damage; to harm; to wreck
- at least; minimum; lowest (amount); minimal
- frivolous; coquettish
- to dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc); to contaminate; to add color washes to a painting
- romantic
- tint; coloring; coloration; (fig.) flavor; character
- characteristic; trait; feature
- to gather; to collect; collected works; classifier for sections of a TV series etc: episode
- whole body; from head to toe; single person; a suit of clothes
- image; picture; graphic
- (voice, music) suave; mellow; (speech) indirect; tactful
- meritorious deed or service; achievement; result; service; accomplishment; work (physics)
- French (language)
- fashionable; popular
- to reflect; reflection (from a mirror etc); reflex (i.e. automatic reaction of organism)
- to be worried; to be distressed; worries
- (of style, mood etc) bright; lively; brisk; prompt; decisive
- can't thank sb enough (idiom)
- short piece; article; short essay
- deluge; flood
- trite; clichéd; empty and trite; banality; platitude
- conventional patterns; cliché
- essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic)
- to alert; to warn; police
- gaiety; gladness; glee; merriment; pleasure; happy; joyous; gay
- to vibrate; to quiver
- to shake; to flap; to vibrate; to resonate; to rise up with spirit; to rouse oneself
- worth hearing a hundred times
- it goes to show that; one can see
- reference book
- reference material; bibliography
- ancient books or records