Vocabulary: 官场其实不好玩
from 明朝一哥王阳明
- 肥缺x1 | Chapter Rank #341lucrative post
- 美差x1 | Chapter Rank #342cushy job; pleasant task
- 不过x2 | Chapter Rank #121only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- 不x4 | Chapter Rank #37no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 缺钱x1 | Chapter Rank #343shortage of money
- 二x1 | Chapter Rank #344two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid
- 贪财x1 | Chapter Rank #345to be greedy in getting money
- 志不在此x1 | Chapter Rank #346to have one's ambitions elsewhere (idiom)
- 他x4 | Chapter Rank #38(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])
- 不甘x1 | Chapter Rank #347unreconciled to; not resigned to; unwilling
- 庸碌x1 | Chapter Rank #348mediocre
- 争分夺秒x1 | Chapter Rank #349lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time; making every second count
- 即使x2 | Chapter Rank #122even if; even though
- 只是x2 | Chapter Rank #123merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however
- 实习x1 | Chapter Rank #350to practice; field work; to intern; internship
- 热情x1 | Chapter Rank #351cordial; enthusiastic; passion; passionate; passionately
- 似火x1 | Chapter Rank #352
- 斗志昂扬x1 | Chapter Rank #353having high fighting spirit
- 可惜x1 | Chapter Rank #354it is a pity; what a pity; unfortunately
- 承x1 | Chapter Rank #355surname Cheng; Cheng (c. 2000 BC), third of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer Godto bear; to carry; to hold; to continue; to undertake; to take charge; owing to; due to; to receive
- 平日x1 | Chapter Rank #356ordinary day; everyday; ordinarily; usually
- 久x1 | Chapter Rank #357(of a period of time) long
- 早已x1 | Chapter Rank #358for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past
- 失去x1 | Chapter Rank #359to lose
- 锐意进取x1 | Chapter Rank #360
- 开拓精神x1 | Chapter Rank #361
- 土木x1 | Chapter Rank #362building; construction; civil engineering
- 堡x1 | Chapter Rank #363used in place namesvillage (used in place names)(bound form) fortress; stronghold; (often used to transliterate -berg, -burg etc in place names); (bound form) burger (abbr. for 漢堡|汉堡[han4 bao3])
- 变x2 | Chapter Rank #124to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion
- 更x1 | Chapter Rank #364to 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)more; even more; further; still; still more
- 让x1 | Chapter Rank #365to 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])
- 后来者x1 | Chapter Rank #366
- 北伐x1 | Chapter Rank #367the Northern Expedition, the Nationalists' campaign of 1926-1928 under Chiang Kai-shek, against the rule of local warlords
- 噤若寒蝉x1 | Chapter Rank #368to keep quiet out of fear (idiom)
- 目睹x1 | Chapter Rank #369to witness; to see at first hand; to see with one's own eyes
- 这x4 | Chapter Rank #39(coll.) this(pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)
- 茫茫x1 | Chapter Rank #370boundless; vast and obscure
- 一片x1 | Chapter Rank #371
- 沉沉x1 | Chapter Rank #372deeply; heavily
- 死x1 | Chapter Rank #373to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned
- 气x2 | Chapter Rank #125gas; air; smell; weather; to make angry; to annoy; to get angry; vital energy; qi
- 愤怒x1 | Chapter Rank #374angry; indignant; wrath; ire
- 一篇x1 | Chapter Rank #375
- 措辞x1 | Chapter Rank #376wording; way of expressing something; turn of phrase; diction
- 激烈x1 | Chapter Rank #377(of competition or fighting) intense; fierce; (of pain) acute; (of an expression of opinion) impassioned; vehement; (of a course of action) drastic; extreme
- 奏疏x1 | Chapter Rank #378
- 臣x3 | Chapter Rank #67surname Chenstate official or subject in dynastic China; I, your servant (used in addressing the sovereign); Kangxi radical 131
- 以为x1 | Chapter Rank #379to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
- 今x1 | Chapter Rank #380now; the present time; current; contemporary; this (day, year etc)
- 患x2 | Chapter Rank #126to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune; trouble; danger; worry