Vocabulary: 冰鉴和铁腕
from 明朝一哥王阳明
- 朝廷x1 | Chapter Rank #563court; imperial household; dynasty
- 拨x1 | Chapter Rank #564to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch
- 饷x1 | Chapter Rank #565soldier's pay
- 现实x1 | Chapter Rank #566reality; actuality; real; actual; realistic; pragmatic; materialistic; self-interested
- 明朝x2 | Chapter Rank #114Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)tomorrow morning; the following morning
- 税赋x1 | Chapter Rank #567tax liability
- 低x1 | Chapter Rank #568low; beneath; to lower (one's head); to let droop; to hang down; to incline
- 户部x2 | Chapter Rank #115Ministry of Revenue in imperial China
- 向来x2 | Chapter Rank #116always (previously)
- 缺钱x1 | Chapter Rank #569shortage of money
- 尚书x1 | Chapter Rank #570high official; government ministersame as 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1] Book of History
- 铁公鸡x1 | Chapter Rank #571cheapskate; stingy person
- 一堆x1 | Chapter Rank #572pile
- 觊觎x1 | Chapter Rank #573(literary) to covet; to cast greedy eyes on
- 目光x1 | Chapter Rank #574gaze; (fig.) attention; expression in one's eyes; look; (lit. and fig.) sight; vision
- 早就x1 | Chapter Rank #575already at an earlier time
- 练就x1 | Chapter Rank #576to master (a skill)
- 一毛不拔x1 | Chapter Rank #577lit. unwilling to spare a single hair (idiom); fig. extremely stingy
- 本领x1 | Chapter Rank #578skill; ability; capability; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
- 找x1 | Chapter Rank #579to try to find; to look for; to call on sb; to find; to seek; to return; to give change
- 要钱x1 | Chapter Rank #580to charge; to demand payment
- 就算x1 | Chapter Rank #581(coll.) even if
- 好x1 | Chapter Rank #582good; 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) helloto be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
- 惹x1 | Chapter Rank #583to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems)
- 清楚x1 | Chapter Rank #584clear; distinct; to understand thoroughly; to be clear about
- 必须x1 | Chapter Rank #585to have to; must; compulsory; necessarily
- 生产自救x1 | Chapter Rank #586
- 情况x2 | Chapter Rank #117circumstances; state of affairs; situation; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- 不容乐观x1 | Chapter Rank #587
- 地方x1 | Chapter Rank #588place; location; area; space; territory; aspect; part; CL:處|处[chu4]region; regional (away from the central administration); local
- 府库x1 | Chapter Rank #589government treasury
- 空虚x1 | Chapter Rank #590hollow; emptiness; meaningless
- 早x1 | Chapter Rank #591early; morning; Good morning!; long ago; prematurely
- 抢光x1 | Chapter Rank #592
- 不能x1 | Chapter Rank #593cannot; must not; should not
- 盘剥x1 | Chapter Rank #594to exploit; to practice usury
- 民众x1 | Chapter Rank #595the populace; the masses; the common people
- 逼上梁山x1 | Chapter Rank #596driven to join the Liangshan Mountain rebels; to drive to revolt; to force sb to desperate action
- 如之奈何x1 | Chapter Rank #597
- 拿x1 | Chapter Rank #598to hold; to seize; to catch; to apprehend; to take; (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)
- 盐商x6 | Chapter Rank #22
- 开刀x1 | Chapter Rank #599(of a surgeon) to perform an operation; (of a patient) to have an operation; to decapitate; to behead; to single out as a point of attack
- 天下太平x1 | Chapter Rank #600the whole world at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity
- 时任x1 | Chapter Rank #601then (as in "the then chairman")
- 上下x1 | Chapter Rank #602the top and bottom of sth; the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom; to go up and down; before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context"); (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so; (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates"); all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation"); relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")
- 钻营x1 | Chapter Rank #603toadying for personal gain; to curry favor; to study in great depth
- 一本万利x1 | Chapter Rank #604small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out
- 赚x1 | Chapter Rank #605to cheat; to swindleto earn; to make a profit
- 盆x1 | Chapter Rank #606basin; flower pot; unit of volume equal to 12 斗[dou3] and 8 升[sheng1], approx 128 liters; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 满x2 | Chapter Rank #118to fill; full; filled; packed; fully; completely; quite; to reach the limit; to satisfy; satisfied; contentedManchu ethnic group