Vocabulary: 国富论
- 大陆 dà lù: 大陆 da4 lu4: continent; mainland; CL:塊|块[kuai4]大陆 Dà lù: 大陆 Da4 lu4: mainland China (reference to the PRC)
- a few years; several years; how many years?
- to tour; to travel
- to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])
- to benefit (from)
- United Kingdom (UK); Britain
- to put one's hand to it; to start out on a task; to set out
- to write; to compose; writing; written works
- basic; fundamental; main; elementary
- 花 Huā: 花 Hua1: surname Hua花 huā: 花 hua1: flower; blossom; CL:朵[duo3],支[zhi1],束[shu4],把[ba3],盆[pen2],簇[cu4]; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful花 huā: 花 hua1: flower; blossom; also pr. [wei3]
- 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)
- (concept of) time; (duration of) time; (point in) time
- to polish (a piece of writing); to add a few finishing touches to (a piece of writing, painting etc)
- to amend; to alter; to modify
- ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only; (emphatic, esp. in contrast or correction) really; actually
- final; ultimate
- immediately; at once; right away
- huge; immense; enormous; gigantic
- repercussions; reaction; echo
- to cover the whole (area); to be found throughout
- Europe and America; the West
- to become; to turn into
- London, capital of United Kingdom
- political and government circles
- well-known; famous
- person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting
- down to; up to; to the extent that...
- Parliament (UK); Congress (US); Diet (Japan); Legislative Yuan (Taiwan)
- bill; proposed law
- frequently; often
- 据 jū: 据 ju1: used in 拮据[jie2 ju1]据 jù: 据 ju4: according to; to act in accordance with; to depend on; to seize; to occupy
- Edinburgh, capital of Scotland
- to settle (in some city, country etc); to take up residence
- to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group
- head; director (of an organizational unit); (police) commissioner; inspector-general; rank of local governor in Tang dynasty administration
- honor; credit; glory; (honorable) reputation; honorary
- (college, university) president; headmaster; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- energy
- 更 gèng: 更 geng4: more; even more; further; still; still more更 gēng: 更 geng1: to change or replace; to experience; one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided; watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)
- to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions); usefulness; utility; (bound form) expense; outlay; (courteous) to eat; to drink; (literary) hence; therefore
- to revise
- to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task; CL:個|个[ge4],份[fen4],項|项[xiang4]
- 单 chán: 单 chan2: used in 單于|单于[chan2 yu2]单 Shàn: 单 Shan4: surname Shan单 dān: 单 dan1: bill; list; form; single; only; sole; odd number; CL:個|个[ge4]
- early or late; first and last; priority; in succession; one after another
- to rank second (in terms of some attribute: size, frequency, quality etc)