Vocabulary: 伏尔泰传
- ear; handle (archaeology); and that is all (Classical Chinese)
- 加 jiā: 加 jia1: to add; (math.) plus; to increase; to augment; (used before a disyllabic verb, often after an adverb like 不[bu4], 大[da4], 稍[shao1] etc, to indicate that the action applies to sth previously mentioned, as in 稍加改良[shao1 jia1 gai3 liang2] "make some minor improvements to (it)")加 Jiā: 加 Jia1: Canada (abbr. for 加拿大[Jia1 na2 da4]); surname Jia
- to go up
- (increasing) day by day; (more critical) with every passing day; gradually
- to buy and sell; to do business; to trade; to deal
- can't help it; can't bear it
- illegal
- to employ; to hire
- Jew
- manager; director; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- mutual
- to control; to accuse; to charge; to sue; to invert a container to empty it; (suffix) (slang) buff; enthusiast; devotee; -phile or -philia
- to cheat
- to be furious; to fly into a terrible rage
- lit. wind and rain sweeping through the town (idiom); fig. a big scandal; an uproar; the talk of the town
- future; tomorrow; CL:個|个[ge4]; approaching; coming; pending
- quiet; peaceful; calm
- crafty plots and machinations (idiom)
- 错 cùo: 错 cuo4: mistake; wrong; bad; interlocking; complex; to grind; to polish; to alternate; to stagger; to miss; to let slip; to evade; to inlay with gold or silver错 Cùo: 错 Cuo4: surname Cuo
- severe; strict
- ear-piercing
- additional; in addition; besides; separate; other; moreover; furthermore
- fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to have a falling out; to have a big argument
- limitation; limit
- 律 Lǜ: 律 Lu:4: surname Lü律 lǜ: 律 lu:4: law
- paper; treatise; thesis; CL:篇[pian1]; to discuss a paper or thesis (old)
- strong; solid; firm; unyielding; resolute
- 谓 Wèi: 谓 Wei4: surname Wei谓 wèi: 谓 wei4: to speak; to say; to name; to designate; meaning; sense
- nature; the natural world
- motive force; prime mover; first cause; agent
- Caltrop or puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris); to thatch (a roof)
- theory; doctrine
- to reject; to dismiss
- to criticize harshly; to denounce; to attack viciously
- genuine; real; true; really; indeed
- (bound form) false; erroneous; absurd; mu (Greek letter Μ, μ)
- absurd; fantastic; presumptuous; rash
- to bare one shoulder; (fig.) to side with; to discriminate in favor of
- fortuitously; luckily; as chance has it