Vocabulary: 伏尔泰传
- hardworking; industrious; diligent
- not only (... but also ...)
- to focus one's attention; to concentrate on (doing sth)
- to go for; to engage in; to undertake; to deal with; to handle; to do
- to comfort; to console; to reassure
- to amuse
- one's declining years; one's old age
- 土地 tǔ dì: 土地 tu3 di4: land; soil; territory; CL:片[pian4],塊|块[kuai4]土地 tǔ di: 土地 tu3 di5: local god; genius loci
- to provide for; to keep (animals, a family etc); to raise animals; to feed and clothe; support; the necessities of life; to give birth
- evening; sunset
- to get up; to leave; to set forth
- ten; 10
- to go to sleep; to go to bed (literary)
- farming task
- to raise; to rear
- horse
- heart's blood; expenditure (for some project); meticulous care
- to improve (sth); to reform (a system)
- to drop in; to visit; to lock a door; (of a shop) to close; to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
- letter
- 录 lù: 录 lu4: to carve wood录 lù: 录 lu4: diary; record; to hit; to copy录 Lù: 录 Lu4: surname Lu
- 玩 wán: 玩 wan2: to play; to have fun; to trifle with; toy; sth used for amusement; curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wan4]); to keep sth for entertainment玩 wán: 玩 wan2: Taiwan pr. [wan4]
- intelligence; intellect
- thief
- minor government official or functionary (old)
- bull
- they; them
- incompatibility of temperament
- to fall ill
- strong; sturdy; robust
- robust; healthy; vigorous; energetic
- to cultivate soil; to till fields
- capable and experienced
- hasn't (or haven't); hasn't ever
- to befall
- to enjoy; to live it up; pleasure; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- insignificant; trifling; merely
- direction; strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology); inclination; trend; to move towards; to head for
- truth; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to do good works; to be merciful
- good deeds