Vocabulary: 第十章 手无寸铁
from 民国总理段祺瑞
- 维持下去x1 | Chapter Rank #2966
- 无从谈起x2 | Chapter Rank #1601
- 归根结底x1 | Chapter Rank #2967in the final analysis; ultimately
- 具备x1 | Chapter Rank #2968to possess; to have; equipped with; able to fulfill (conditions or requirements)
- 袁世凯x2 | Chapter Rank #1602Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China
- 公认x1 | Chapter Rank #2969publicly known (to be); accepted (as)
- 权势x1 | Chapter Rank #2970power; influence
- 形成x4 | Chapter Rank #784to form; to take shape
- 权宜之计x1 | Chapter Rank #2971plan of convenience (idiom); stop-gap measure; makeshift stratagem; interim step
- 比喻x1 | Chapter Rank #2972to compare; to liken to; metaphor; analogy; figure of speech; figuratively
- 一群x4 | Chapter Rank #785
- 儿孙x1 | Chapter Rank #2973descendant
- 苹果x2 | Chapter Rank #1603Apple (American tech company)apple; CL:個|个[ge4],顆|颗[ke1]
- 老妇x2 | Chapter Rank #1604
- 想尽办法x1 | Chapter Rank #2974
- 公平合理x1 | Chapter Rank #2975fair; equitable
- 篮子x1 | Chapter Rank #2976basket; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- 大小x1 | Chapter Rank #2977large and small; size; adults and children; consideration of seniority; at any rate
- 酸甜x1 | Chapter Rank #2978sour and sweet
- 迁怒x1 | Chapter Rank #2979to take one's anger out on sb (who does not deserve it)
- 打发x1 | Chapter Rank #2980to dispatch sb to do sth; to make sb leave; to pass (the time); (old) to make arrangements; (old) to bestow (alms etc)
- 自恃x1 | Chapter Rank #2981self-esteem; self-reliance; overconfident; conceited
- 功x1 | Chapter Rank #2982meritorious deed or service; achievement; result; service; accomplishment; work (physics)
- 刚x2 | Chapter Rank #1605(literary) hard; firm; strong; exactly; precisely; barely; only just; just; only a short while ago
- 开局x1 | Chapter Rank #2983opening (chess etc); early stage of game, match, work, activity etc
- 满足x1 | Chapter Rank #2984to satisfy; to meet (the needs of); satisfied; content
- 生x3 | Chapter Rank #1075to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire); to live; to be alive; life; raw; uncooked; unprocessed; unfamiliar; strange; (bound form) student; person engaged in a field; (bound form) male role in traditional opera; (bound form) life; lifetime; (bound form) means of livelihood; (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]); (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- 怨怼x1 | Chapter Rank #2985resentment; grudge
- 气焰万丈x1 | Chapter Rank #2986
- 得寸进尺x1 | Chapter Rank #2987lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains; give him an inch, and he'll want a mile
- 河北x1 | Chapter Rank #2988see 河北省[He2 bei3 Sheng3]
- 复x1 | Chapter Rank #2989to go and return; to return; to resume; to return to a normal or original state; to repeat; again; to recover; to restore; to turn over; to reply; to answer; to reply to a letter; to retaliate; to carry outto repeat; to double; to overlap; complex (not simple); compound; composite; double; diplo-; duplicate; overlapping; to duplicateto reply to a letter
- 侄子x3 | Chapter Rank #1076brother's son; nephew
- 宏x11 | Chapter Rank #251great; magnificent; macro (computing); macro-
- 纲x11 | Chapter Rank #252head rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link; class (taxonomy); outline; program
- 长随x1 | Chapter Rank #2990
- 进言x1 | Chapter Rank #2991to put forward a suggestion (to sb in a senior position); to offer a word of advice
- 严词拒绝x1 | Chapter Rank #2992
- 不了x3 | Chapter Rank #1077no thanks (used to politely but informally decline)(as a resultative verb suffix) unable to (do sth); (pattern: {verb} + 個|个[ge5] + ~) without end; incessantly
- 离京x2 | Chapter Rank #1606
- 下野x6 | Chapter Rank #486to step down from office; to go into opposition
- 威信x1 | Chapter Rank #2993see 威信縣|威信县[Wei1 xin4 Xian4]prestige; reputation; trust; credit with the people
- 尽失x1 | Chapter Rank #2994(of hope, appetite, authority etc) to be lost
- 越来越x2 | Chapter Rank #1607more and more
- 被动x1 | Chapter Rank #2995passive
- 坚毅x1 | Chapter Rank #2996firm and persistent; unswerving determination
- 果断x1 | Chapter Rank #2997firm; decisive
- 并未x3 | Chapter Rank #1078(used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ...
- 坚持下去x1 | Chapter Rank #2998to press on
- 另外x4 | Chapter Rank #786additional; in addition; besides; separate; other; moreover; furthermore