Vocabulary: 伏尔泰传
- to establish; to set up; to found
- pseudoginseng (Panax pseudoginseng), hemostatic herb
- lucky; auspicious; propitious; rayl (acoustical unit)
- appearance; facial features; look
- later generations
- unusual; special; very; especially; particularly; expressly; for a specific purpose; (often followed by 是[shi4]) in particular
- legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
- George Byron (1788-1824), English poet
- to stop; to pause; to arrange; to lay out; to kowtow; to stamp (one's foot); at once; classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
- adult person
- hair (on the head)
- sparse; rare
- to age prematurely
- Tolstoy (name); Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平
- to think; to consider
- countryside; rural area; CL:個|个[ge4]
- old man
- work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labor
- 衣 yì: 衣 yi4: to dress; to wear; to put on (clothes)衣 yī: 衣 yi1: clothes; CL:件[jian4]; Kangxi radical 145
- the waist and lower back; (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food); the waist of trousers or a skirt; (metonym) money pouch; pocket; (bound form) the middle section of an upright object (mountain, bottle etc)
- 束 Shù: 束 Shu4: surname Shu束 shù: 束 shu4: to bind; bunch; bundle; classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc; to control
- rich; wide; broad
- crafty; cunning; sly
- sculpture; (carved) statue; CL:尊[zun1]
- lit. laughs, jeers, anger and invective (idiom); fig. all kinds of emotions; to mock and scold; (of writing) freely roving; following the author's fancy
- slim
- withered and rotten
- skeleton; skeletal remains
- marble
- spring
- at any time; at all times; at the right time; whenever necessary
- twenty; 20
- nearly at the point of (doing sth); about to (do sth)
- to die of old age
- to complain; to grumble
- unbearable; unable to endure; can't stand
- excessive; over-; excess; going too far; extravagant; intemperate; overdue
- fatigue; wearily; weariness; weary
- lonely; solitary
- moody; gloomy
- bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly
- to be in contact (with sb); to associate; to interact; to get along (well, poorly)
- obese; bloated; swollen (style); (fig.) (of an organization) oversized or overstaffed