Vocabulary: 伏尔泰传
- 满 Mǎn: 满 Man3: Manchu ethnic group满 mǎn: 满 man3: to fill; full; filled; packed; fully; completely; quite; to reach the limit; to satisfy; satisfied; contented
- confused; chaotic; disorderly
- phenomenon; CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]; appearance
- but; however; (used for emphasis) indeed
- few; scant; widowed
- 廉 Lián: 廉 Lian2: surname Lian廉 lián: 廉 lian2: incorruptible; honest; inexpensive; to investigate (old); side wall of a traditional Chinese house (old)
- 丧 sāng: 丧 sang1: mourning; funeral; (old) corpse丧 sàng: 丧 sang4: to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc); to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc); to die; disappointed; discouraged
- (bound form) shame; humiliation; disgrace
- any; whatever; whichever
- 时代 Shí dài: 时代 Shi2 dai4: Time, US weekly news magazine时代 shí dài: 时代 shi2 dai4: age; era; epoch; period (in one's life); CL:個|个[ge4]
- 足 jù: 足 ju4: excessive足 zú: 足 zu2: (bound form) foot; leg; sufficient; ample; as much as; fully
- to facilitate; to help bring about
- to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out; to destroy; to exterminate
- to decline; to wane
- to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up
- to comment; to talk about; to discuss; discussion; CL:個|个[ge4]
- right and wrong; quarrel
- for a particular person, occasion, purpose; focused on one thing; special; expert; particular (to sth); concentrated; specialized
- 好 hào: 好 hao4: to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to好 hǎo: 好 hao3: good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello
- to satirize; to ridicule; to mock
- middle class
- portion; part of; subset
- to force; to compel
- 宫 Gōng: 宫 Gong1: surname Gong宫 gōng: 宫 gong1: palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale
- 臣 chén: 臣 chen2: state official or subject in dynastic China; I, your servant (used in addressing the sovereign); Kangxi radical 131臣 Chén: 臣 Chen2: surname Chen
- to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- to be in favor of; to support; to back; support; backing; to stand by; CL:個|个[ge4]
- youth; youthful years; young person; the young
- (fig.) to dream of; dream
- feudalism
- to move; to exercise; sports; exercise; motion; movement; campaign; CL:場|场[chang3]
- ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged); civilian (contrasted with the military)
- repercussions; reaction; echo
- 当时 dāng shí: 当时 dang1 shi2: then; at that time当时 dàng shí: 当时 dang4 shi2: immediately; right then
- profound; deep; deep-going
- the not-very-distant past; modern times, excluding recent decades; (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919); capitalist times (pre-1949)
- science; scientific knowledge; scientific; rational; CL:門|门[men2],個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]
- to form; to take shape
- (bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
- Mikolaj Kopernik or Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, mathematician and polymath
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian scientist
- René Descartes (1596–1650), French philosopher, mathematician and scientist
- after that; then
- celestial body (e.g. planet, satellite etc); heavenly body
- (of celestial bodies etc) to move along one's course; (fig.) to function; to be in operation; (of a train service etc) to operate; to run; (of a computer) to run
- object; body; substance
- to descend; to land
- light ray; CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]; light; illumination; lighting (for a photograph)
- range; reach; firing range