Vocabulary: 伏尔泰传
- 旧教 jìu jiào: 旧教 jiu4 jiao4: old teachings; wisdom from the past旧教 Jìu jiào: 旧教 Jiu4 jiao4: the Old Religion (i.e. Roman Catholicism) 天主教[Tian1 zhu3 jiao4], as opposed to Protestantism 新教[Xin1 jiao4]
- sect
- creed; doctrine; teachings
- in general; more or less; in rough terms; basically; on the whole; overall situation; the big picture; cadaver for dissection in training medical students
- humanity; human race; mankind
- first; original; primitive; original (document etc)
- (followed by a verb phrase, then – optionally – 不可, or 不行 etc) must
- 神 shén: 神 shen2: god; deity; supernatural; magical; mysterious; spirit; mind; energy; lively; expressive; look; expression; (coll.) awesome; amazing神 Shén: 神 Shen2: God
- to love; to pamper; to spoil; to favor
- never; will never
- outstanding; to fast-track; to elevate; to free oneself from
- extreme
- pessimistic
- Christ (abbr. for 基利斯督[Ji1 li4 si1 du1] or 基利士督[Ji1 li4 shi4 du1])
- teacher; instructor; CL:個|个[ge4]
- good (virtuous); benevolent; well-disposed; good at sth; to improve or perfect
- alluring; erotic; romantic
- beautiful; enchanting
- descendant
- personage; celebrity
- Henry (name); henry (unit of inductance)
- illegitimate son
- prince; son of a king
- to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely
- (bound form) father; (bound form) male relative of father's generation (as in 伯父[bo2 fu4]); (computing) (bound form) parent-
- to take a wife; to marry (a woman)
- mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female
- 故事 gù shi: 故事 gu4 shi5: narrative; story; tale故事 gù shì: 故事 gu4 shi4: old practice
- Greece
- with this; thereby; thus; because of this
- excessive; undue; to exceed; to be more than; very; extremely; (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. [shen2])
- to insert; to take turns, alternate; to interweave; to interlace; subplot; interlude; episode; (military) to thrust deep into the enemy forces
- foreign country
- 谢 Xiè: 谢 Xie4: surname Xie谢 xiè: 谢 xie4: to thank; (bound form) to apologize; (bound form) to decline; to refuse; (bound form) (of flowers, leaves etc) to wither
- 吕 Lǚ: 吕 Lu:3: surname Lü吕 lǚ: 吕 lu:3: pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system
- 班 Bān: 班 Ban1: surname Ban班 bān: 班 ban1: team; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift; classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles
- to mention; to speak of; to talk about
- The Hague (seat of government of the Netherlands)
- city walls; city; town; CL:座[zuo4],道[dao4],個|个[ge4]
- to have as a feature or characteristic; to have an element of (confidence, sweetness, malevolence etc); to carry (a pathogen, connotation etc)
- Protestant; adherent of Protestantism