Vocabulary: 伏尔泰传
- 只 zhǐ: 只 zhi3: only; merely; just只 zhī: 只 zhi1: grain that has begun to ripen只 zhī: 只 zhi1: classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
- his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it)
- 大意 dà yì: 大意 da4 yi4: general idea; main idea大意 dà yi: 大意 da4 yi5: careless
- reader
- to show understanding; to excuse; to presume; to expect
- to annotate; annotation; comment; interpretation; to explain with notes; explanatory note
- all; each and every; in all cases
- 为 wéi: 为 wei2: as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice)为 wèi: 为 wei4: because of; for; to
- translator (of writing)
- to add; to increase
- so that; so as to; in order to
- to adopt; to employ; to use
- 年 Nián: 年 Nian2: surname Nian年 nián: 年 nian2: year; CL:個|个[ge4]年 nián: 年 nian2: grain; harvest (old)
- Paris, capital of France
- bookstore; CL:家[jia1]
- version; edition; release
- April; fourth month (of the lunar year)
- 傅 fù: 傅 fu4: (bound form) instructor; (literary) to instruct; to attach; to apply (makeup etc)傅 Fù: 傅 Fu4: surname Fu
- 原 Yuán: 原 Yuan2: surname Yuan; (Japanese surname) Hara原 yuán: 原 yuan2: former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source
- guarantee; to guarantee; to ensure; to safeguard; to pledge; CL:個|个[ge4]
- collected works
- to unify; to integrate; unified; integrated
- to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including
- outside; in addition; foreign; external
- the rest; the others; remaining; remainder; apart from them
- (bound form) equal; uniform; even; (literary) without exception; all
- to change over to; to switch to; to use (sth different)
- domestic; internal (to a country); civil
- to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc); to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc); (of two or more things) interchangeable
- Voltaire (1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer and philosopher
- one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- 的 dì: 的 di4: (bound form) bull's-eye; target的 de: 的 de5: of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pi2 ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的[pao3 tang2 r5 de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one"); also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs的 dí: 的 di2: really and truly的 dī: 的 di1: a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士[di1 shi4])
- origin; source; relationship
- characteristic; diagnostic property; distinctive feature; trait
- to rule (a country); to govern; rule; regime
- to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion)
- 个 gě: 个 ge3: used in 自個兒|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5]个 gè: 个 ge4: (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual
- intelligent; clever; bright; acute (of sight and hearing)
- statesman; politician; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- 正当 zhèng dàng: 正当 zheng4 dang4: honest; reasonable; fair; sensible正当 zhèng dāng: 正当 zheng4 dang1: timely; just (when needed)
- dictatorship
- (not only ...) but also; moreover; in addition; furthermore
- absolutely necessary; indispensable; essential
- as yet; until