- Bole (a man who lived during Spring and Autumn Period, reputed to be able to spot a good horse); a person who is good at spotting talent
- benefactor
- conspiracy; secret plan; to conspire
- originally; the original; original copy; original version
- to experience; to go through; experience (CL:段[duan4],次[ci4])
- illustrious; celebrated
- can be counted as
- contemporary
- well-known figure; excellent (person, company etc)
- 读 dú: 读 du2: to read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend (school); to study (a subject in school); to pronounce读 dòu: 读 dou4: comma; phrase marked by pause
- 过 guo: 过 guo5: (experienced action marker)过 gùo: 过 guo4: to cross; to go over; to pass (time); to celebrate (a holiday); to live; to get along; excessively; too-过 Gūo: 过 Guo1: surname Guo
- seven; 7
- private school (in former times)
- to be well acquainted with
- (bound form) to compare; (literary) to dispute; compared to; (before an adjective) relatively; comparatively; rather; also pr. [jiao3]
- 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
- Chinese national culture; studies of ancient Chinese civilization; the Imperial College (history)
- foundation; grounding; background; what lies at the bottom of sth; root; cause
- to mention; to bring up (a subject); with regard to; as for
- lit. 之[zhi1], 乎[hu1], 者[zhe3] and 也[ye3] (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions
- hardly; not in the least; not at all
- to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password)
- to grow to adulthood; fully grown; adult; the whole year
- to pass entrance exam; to enter college after a competitive exam
- to hire; to recruit
- 百 bǎi: 百 bai3: hundred; numerous; all kinds of百 Bǎi: 百 Bai3: surname Bai
- Tianjin municipality (short name 津[Jin1])
- school; CL:所[suo3]
- although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是[ke3 shi4] or 但是[dan4 shi4] etc)
- 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)
- college; school (old)
- afterwards; later; newly arrived
- investigator; researcher
- 20th century
- initial stage; beginning period
- history; CL:門|门[men2],段[duan4]
- 上 shǎng: 上 shang3: used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]上 shàng: 上 shang4: (bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb; to get onto; to go up; to attend (class or university); (directional complement) up; (noun suffix) on; above
- many; a lot of; much
- person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting
- to cultivate; to train; to groom; training
- Germany
- to make; to build; to manufacture; to invent; to fabricate; to go to; party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement); crop; classifier for crops
- cannon; gun; artillery