Vocabulary: 伏尔泰传
- garden area
- to shake; to vibrate; to strongly affect; shock; vibration
- 霹雳 Pī lì: 霹雳 Pi1 li4: Perak (state of Malaysia)霹雳 pī lì: 霹雳 pi1 li4: thunderclap; (slang) awesome; shocking; terrifying
- to fight; fight; war; battle
- 力 lì: 力 li4: power; force; strength; ability; strenuously力 Lì: 力 Li4: surname Li
- 合 hé: 合 he2: to close; to join; to fit; to be equal to; whole; together; round (in battle); conjunction (astronomy); 1st note of pentatonic scale合 gě: 合 ge3: 100 ml; one-tenth of a peck; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗
- conclusion; verdict; CL:個|个[ge4]; to conclude; to reach a verdict
- (idiom) to achieve sth worthwhile; to make a positive contribution
- bad; harmful; unhealthy; (of a device, connection, material etc) defective; faulty
- to make better; to improve
- to protect; to defend; to safeguard; protection; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- to be used for
- living a simple life
- to be limited to; to be confined to
- to grab; to catch; to arrest; to snatch; to scratch
- hereby; from this
- to urge on (of horse); to drive; to steer; to handle; to manage; to master; to dominate
- to indicate; to foretell; to forebode; to betoken
- modern man; Homo sapiens
- engineer
- classicists
- mold; type; style; model
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Enlightenment philosopher
- mound; burial mound; senior (i.e. eldest child or senior in rank)
- 子 zi: 子 zi5: noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"子 zǐ: 子 zi3: son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- Harold, Harald, Harrod (name)
- personality; integrity; dignity
- (bound form) to become visible (esp. on a surface or in perception)
- male taxi driver; cabbie (slang)
- public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)
- fate; destiny
- late stage; later period
- a dandy; a fop; Don Juan; a ladies man
- to approve; to endorse; (literary) to assist
- exception; to be an exception
- on the other hand...; conversely...
- 温 Wēn: 温 Wen1: surname Wen温 wēn: 温 wen1: warm; lukewarm; to warm up; (bound form) temperature; (bound form) mild; soft; tender; to review (a lesson etc); (TCM) fever
- the road ahead
- to go through; to pass through; to be in general use