Vocabulary: 伏尔泰传
- unmanned; uninhabited
- disturbance; uproar; CL:陣|阵[zhen4]; to become restless
- to be careful; to pay attention to
- to listen carefully
- to get panicky; to lose one's head; (coll.) (after 得[de2]) unbearably; terribly
- to separate; to isolate
- wretched state; miserable plight
- to cover; to encase; cover; sheath; to overlap; to interleave; to model after; to copy; formula; harness; loop of rope; (fig.) to fish for; to obtain slyly; classifier for sets, collections; bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names); tau (Greek letter Ττ)
- car or other vehicle (bicycle, truck etc)
- to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks)
- to be out of (political) office; to be out of power
- runaway
- 戴 dài: 戴 dai4: to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to support戴 Dài: 戴 Dai4: surname Dai
- son's daughter; granddaughter
- courage; daring; boldness; resolution; drive
- imperious; peremptory
- to instigate; to incite; to urge; to encourage
- a shout; fig. opinion or demand, esp. expressed by a group
- testament; will
- comprehensive; thorough; to bring one's help; to assist
- to be disgusted with; to dislike; bad reaction; antipathy
- to rise to power (in politics); to go on stage (in the theater)
- mansion house; official residence
- to recruit (followers); to scout for (talent etc); to incur; to lead to
- wise; a sage
- 士 Shì: 士 Shi4: surname Shi士 shì: 士 shi4: member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor; honorific; soldier; noncommissioned officer; specialist worker
- look; style; appearance; approximation; about; CL:個|个[ge4]; also pr. [mo2 yang4]
- to find some consolation (idiom); to find relief in
- gentle; urbane; refined
- diner (in a restaurant etc); hanger-on; sponger
- antiphon (i.e. solo voice answered by chorus); sung reply (in agreement with first voice); to reply with a poem in the same rhythm
- south side; south
- addiction; craving
- used in expressions that convey frustration and futility, such as 無奈|无奈[wu2 nai4] and 莫可奈何|莫可奈何[mo4 ke3 nai4 he2] (literary); used for its phonetic value in writing foreign words
- to arrive; to come
- midnight; in the middle of the night
- time; period during the day; one of the 12 two-hour periods enumerated by the earthly branches 地支
- specter; apparition; ghost
- on the body; at hand; among
- to issue (an order, decree etc); to send out; to dispatch; to produce (a sound); to let out (a laugh)
- rotproof; antiseptic; anti-corrosion
- corpse; dead body