Vocabulary: 国富论
- 大都 dà dū: 大都 da4 du1: for the most part; on the whole; metropolitan大都 dà dōu: 大都 da4 dou1: for the most part; on the whole; also pr. [da4 du1]大都 Dà dū: 大都 Da4 du1: Dadu, capital of China during the Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368), modern day Beijing
- to balance up; to offset; to counterbalance
- to press against; to support; to prop up; to resist; to withstand; to be equal to; to match; to balance; to offset; to mortgage; to make up for; to compensate for; to arrive at; to reach; to clap (one's hands) lightly (expressing delight) (Taiwan pr. [zhi3])
- wheel; (derog.) Falun Gong practitioner; CL:個|个[ge4]
- smooth; steady
- to borrow sth for another use; to borrow an idea for one's own use
- inflation
- 闲 xián: 闲 xian2: enclosure; unoccupied; leisure闲 xián: 闲 xian2: idle; unoccupied; leisure
- resources; capital; to provide; to supply; to support; money; expense
- to count on; to hope for; prospect; hope
- won't do; be out of the question; be no good; not work; not be capable
- short; brief; to lack; weak point; fault
- a building used as a factory; factory (building); CL:座[zuo4],棟|栋[dong4]
- a furnace for smelting metal
- depot; storehouse; warehouse
- pit; hollow; depression; (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel; (literary) to bury alive; (coll.) to cheat; to scam; to screw over
- to eliminate; to remove; to exclude; to rule out
- to collect water; to be covered with water; to pond; accumulated water; ponding
- 车 chē: 车 che1: car; vehicle; CL:輛|辆[liang4]; machine; to shape with a lathe; Kangxi radical 159车 Chē: 车 Che1: surname Che车 jū: 车 ju1: war chariot (archaic); rook (in Chinese chess); rook (in chess)
- (bound form) rail; track; course; path
- to dig; to excavate; to scoop out
- to build
- period; cycle
- to suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out; to get the worst of it; to be at a disadvantage; unfortunately
- even if; even though
- unlikely to go so far as to; not as bad as
- to repay; to pay off a debt
- security (property held against a loan); mortgaged property
- rather; quite
- to receive
- cash on hand; readily available funds; extra income
- to benefit both the country and the people
- to compare; to liken to; metaphor; analogy; figure of speech; figuratively
- 打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")
- appropriate; suitable
- 修 xīu: 修 xiu1: to decorate; to embellish; to repair; to build; to write; to cultivate; to study; to take (a class)修 Xīu: 修 Xiu1: surname Xiu
- in the sky; in the air