Vocabulary: 序 言
from 明朝一哥王阳明
- 徐光启x1 | Chapter Rank #363Xu Guangqi (1562-1633), agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mathematician in the Ming dynasty
- 李贽x1 | Chapter Rank #364Li Zhi (1527-1602), late Ming philosopher, historian and writer
- 明朝x1 | Chapter Rank #365Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)tomorrow morning; the following morning
- 祀x1 | Chapter Rank #366to sacrifice; to offer libation to
- 孔庙x1 | Chapter Rank #367Confucian temple
- 近代x2 | Chapter Rank #117the 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)
- 康有为x1 | Chapter Rank #368Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
- 梁启超x2 | Chapter Rank #118Liang Qichao (1873-1929), influential journalist and a leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
- 章太炎x3 | Chapter Rank #65Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution
- 孙中山x3 | Chapter Rank #66Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國民黨|国民党; same as 孫逸仙|孙逸仙
- 五四x1 | Chapter Rank #369fourth of May, cf 五四運動|五四运动, national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles
- 时x2 | Chapter Rank #119surname Shio'clock; time; when; hour; season; period
- 陈独秀x1 | Chapter Rank #370Chen Duxiu (1879-1942), co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921
- 胡适之x1 | Chapter Rank #371
- 无不x1 | Chapter Rank #372none lacking; none missing; everything is there; everyone without exception
- 吸取x1 | Chapter Rank #373to absorb; to draw (a lesson, insight etc); to assimilate
- 人性x1 | Chapter Rank #374human nature; humanity; human; the totality of human attributes
- 解放x1 | Chapter Rank #375to liberate; to emancipate; liberation; refers to the Communists' victory over the Nationalists in 1949; CL:次[ci4]
- 自尊x1 | Chapter Rank #376self-respect; self-esteem; ego; pride
- 无畏x1 | Chapter Rank #377
- 不朽x1 | Chapter Rank #378to last forever; eternal; enduring
- 学术界x1 | Chapter Rank #379academic circles; academia
- 极其x1 | Chapter Rank #380extremely
- 伟大x1 | Chapter Rank #381huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)
- 和x4 | Chapter Rank #42to mix (ingredients) together; to blend; classifier for rinses of clothes; classifier for boilings of medicinal herbssurname He(joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]); (math.) sum; to make peace; (sports) to draw; to tie; (bound form) harmonious; (bound form) Japan; Japaneseto compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence; to join in the singing; to chime in with othersto complete a set in mahjong or playing cardsto combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water; Taiwan pr. [huo4]
- 很大x1 | Chapter Rank #382
- 勋业x1 | Chapter Rank #383(literary) distinguished service and achievement
- 一针见血x1 | Chapter Rank #384lit. to draw blood on the first prick (idiom); fig. to hit the nail on the head
- 地x2 | Chapter Rank #120earth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]-ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- 指出x1 | Chapter Rank #385to indicate; to point out
- 日本x4 | Chapter Rank #43Japan
- 维新x2 | Chapter Rank #121(political) reform; revitalization; modernization
- 先导x1 | Chapter Rank #386to lead the way; guide; forerunner; pioneer
- 赞叹x1 | Chapter Rank #387to exclaim in admiration
- 矣哉x1 | Chapter Rank #388
- 诚如x1 | Chapter Rank #389it is exactly as
- 明治维新x1 | Chapter Rank #390Meiji Restoration (Japan, 1868)
- 产生x1 | Chapter Rank #391to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
- 重大x1 | Chapter Rank #392great; important; major; significant
- 数x1 | Chapter Rank #393to count; to count as; to regard as; to enumerate; to listnumber; figure; several; a few(literary) frequently; repeatedly
- 不尽x1 | Chapter Rank #394not completely; endlessly
- 政治家x3 | Chapter Rank #67statesman; politician; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- 企业家x1 | Chapter Rank #395entrepreneur
- 奉若神明x1 | Chapter Rank #396to honor sb as a God (idiom); to revere; to worship; to deify; to make a holy cow of sth; to put sb on a pedestal
- 倒x1 | Chapter Rank #397to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profitto invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
- 幕x1 | Chapter Rank #398curtain or screen; canopy or tent; headquarters of a general; act (of a play)curtain; screen
- 领袖x1 | Chapter Rank #399leader
- 西乡隆x1 | Chapter Rank #400
- 盛x1 | Chapter Rank #401to hold; to contain; to ladle; to pick up with a utensilflourishing; vigorous; magnificent; extensivelysurname Sheng
- 久坂玄瑞x1 | Chapter Rank #402