Vocabulary: 化险为夷独赖心力
from 明朝一哥王阳明
- 乾x2 | Chapter Rank #97surname Qianone of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing heaven; male principle; ☰; ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)surname Gandry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder
- 根据x1 | Chapter Rank #316according to; based on; basis; foundation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 易传x1 | Chapter Rank #317Yi Zhuan, commentary on the "Book of Changes" or "I Ching" 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]
- 解释x1 | Chapter Rank #318explanation; to explain; to interpret; to resolve; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 天x3 | Chapter Rank #52day; sky; heaven
- 天下x2 | Chapter Rank #98land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule
- 高x1 | Chapter Rank #319surname Gaohigh; tall; above average; loud; your (honorific)
- 退x1 | Chapter Rank #320to retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth); to decline
- 阴x1 | Chapter Rank #321surname Yinovercast (weather); cloudy; shady; Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang); negative (electric.); feminine; moon; implicit; hidden; genitalia
- 长阳x1 | Chapter Rank #322see 長陽土家族自治縣|长阳土家族自治县[Chang2 yang2 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
- 消x1 | Chapter Rank #323to diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time); (after 不[bu4] or 只[zhi3] or 何[he2] etc) to need; to require; to take
- 小人x2 | Chapter Rank #99person of low social status (old); I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself); nasty person; vile character
- 得势x1 | Chapter Rank #324to win power; to get authority; to become dominant
- 君子x2 | Chapter Rank #100nobleman; person of noble character
- 退隐x1 | Chapter Rank #325to withdraw from the fray and live in seclusion; to retire
- 明哲保身x1 | Chapter Rank #326a wise man looks after his own hide (idiom); to put one's own safety before matters of principle
- 伺机x1 | Chapter Rank #327to wait for an opportunity; to watch for one's chance
- 救x1 | Chapter Rank #328to save; to assist; to rescue
- 该x1 | Chapter Rank #329should; ought to; probably; must be; to deserve; to owe; to be sb's turn to do sth; that; the above-mentioned
- 退一步x1 | Chapter Rank #330
- 事已至此x1 | Chapter Rank #331see 事到如今[shi4 dao4 ru2 jin1]
- 若x3 | Chapter Rank #53to seem; like; as; ifused in 般若[bo1 re3]; used in 蘭若|兰若[lan2 re3]
- 蒋x1 | Chapter Rank #332surname Jiang; Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石[Jiang3 Jie4 shi2]
- 钦x1 | Chapter Rank #333surname Qinto respect; to admire; to venerate; by the emperor himself
- 一般x1 | Chapter Rank #334same; ordinary; so-so; common; general; generally; in general
- 上书x1 | Chapter Rank #335to write a letter (to the authorities); to present a petition
- 谏x1 | Chapter Rank #336surname Jianto remonstrate; to admonish
- 以卵击石x1 | Chapter Rank #337lit. to strike a stone with egg (idiom); to attempt the impossible; to invite disaster by overreaching oneself
- 只是x1 | Chapter Rank #338merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however
- 徒增x1 | Chapter Rank #339
- 一具x1 | Chapter Rank #340
- 尸体x1 | Chapter Rank #341corpse; dead body
- 罢了x1 | Chapter Rank #342a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much)a modal particle indicating (don't mind it, ok)
- 年x1 | Chapter Rank #343year; CL:個|个[ge4]surname Niangrain; harvest (old)
- 除夕之夜x1 | Chapter Rank #344
- 大x3 | Chapter Rank #54big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
- 明朝x2 | Chapter Rank #101Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)tomorrow morning; the following morning
- 黑暗x1 | Chapter Rank #345dark; darkly; darkness
- 幽室x1 | Chapter Rank #346
- 之中x1 | Chapter Rank #347inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during
- 前不见古人x1 | Chapter Rank #348
- 后不见来者x1 | Chapter Rank #349
- 天地x2 | Chapter Rank #102heaven and earth; world; scope; field of activity
- 虽x1 | Chapter Rank #350although; even though
- 除了x1 | Chapter Rank #351apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- 自己x1 | Chapter Rank #352oneself; (attributive) one's own
- 颗x1 | Chapter Rank #353classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc
- 心x2 | Chapter Rank #103heart; mind; intention; center; core; CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
- 可x1 | Chapter Rank #354(prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very; but; howeverused in 可汗[ke4 han2]
- 凭借x1 | Chapter Rank #355to rely on; to depend on; by means of; thanks to; sth that one relies on