Vocabulary: 孔子的困境
from 明朝一哥王阳明
- 成熟x1 | Chapter Rank #513mature; ripe; to mature; to ripen; Taiwan pr. [cheng2shou2]
- 每x1 | Chapter Rank #514each; every
- 无论x1 | Chapter Rank #515no matter what or how; regardless of whether...
- 智商x1 | Chapter Rank #516IQ (intelligence quotient)
- 高低x1 | Chapter Rank #517height; level; (music) pitch; relative superiority; propriety; discretion (usu. in the negative, e.g. 不知高低[bu4 zhi1 gao1 di1]); no matter what; just; simply (will not ..., must ... etc); at long last
- 美丑x1 | Chapter Rank #518
- 越来越x1 | Chapter Rank #519more and more
- 复杂x1 | Chapter Rank #520complicated; complex
- 环境x1 | Chapter Rank #521environment; circumstances; surroundings; CL:個|个[ge4]; ambient
- 询问x1 | Chapter Rank #522to inquire
- 多x1 | Chapter Rank #523many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-
- 终究x1 | Chapter Rank #524in the end; after all; eventually
- 什么样x2 | Chapter Rank #131what kind?; what sort?
- 直到x2 | Chapter Rank #132until
- 王阳明x2 | Chapter Rank #133Wang Yangming (1472-1529), Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher, influential in the School of Mind 心學|心学[xin1 xue2]
- 出现x2 | Chapter Rank #134to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up
- 终极x1 | Chapter Rank #525ultimate; final
- 命题x1 | Chapter Rank #526proposition (logic, math.); to assign an essay topic
- 被x4 | Chapter Rank #48quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu : 3 you2] to "go on a trip")
- 国人x1 | Chapter Rank #527compatriots (literary); fellow countrymen
- 思维x1 | Chapter Rank #528(line of) thought; thinking
- 方式x1 | Chapter Rank #529way; method; manner; mode; pattern (of behavior etc); CL:種|种[zhong3]
- 向来x1 | Chapter Rank #530always (previously)
- 一半x2 | Chapter Rank #135half
- 儒家x3 | Chapter Rank #77Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3] (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3] (c. 372-c. 289 BC)
- 道家x1 | Chapter Rank #531Daoist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), based on the teachings of Laozi or Lao-tze 老子[Lao3 zi3] (c. 500 BC-) and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3] (369-286 BC)
- 心x2 | Chapter Rank #136heart; mind; intention; center; core; CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
- 学x3 | Chapter Rank #78to learn; to study; to imitate; science; -ology
- 也x5 | Chapter Rank #35also; too; as well; (not ...) either; (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]surname Ye
- 常常x1 | Chapter Rank #532frequently; often
- 认为x2 | Chapter Rank #137to believe; to think; to consider; to feel
- 两种x1 | Chapter Rank #533
- 思想x1 | Chapter Rank #534thought; thinking; idea; ideology; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 融合x1 | Chapter Rank #535a mixture; an amalgam; fusion; welding together; to be in harmony with (nature); to harmonize with; to fit in
- 浅薄x1 | Chapter Rank #536superficial
- 定义x1 | Chapter Rank #537definition; to define
- 远远x1 | Chapter Rank #538distant; by far
- 不能x1 | Chapter Rank #539cannot; must not; should not
- 概括x1 | Chapter Rank #540to summarize; to generalize; briefly; in broad outline
- 丰富x1 | Chapter Rank #541to enrich; rich; plentiful; abundant
- 内涵x1 | Chapter Rank #542meaningful content; implication; (semantics) connotation; inner qualities (of a person)
- 中国x4 | Chapter Rank #49China
- 历史x1 | Chapter Rank #543history; CL:門|门[men2],段[duan4]
- 一言以蔽之x1 | Chapter Rank #544one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short; in a nutshell
- 治x8 | Chapter Rank #18to rule; to govern; to manage; to control; to harness (a river); to treat (a disease); to wipe out (a pest); to punish; to research
- 乱x7 | Chapter Rank #20in confusion or disorder; in a confused state of mind; disorder; upheaval; riot; illicit sexual relations; to throw into disorder; to mix up; indiscriminate; random; arbitrary
- 中庸x1 | Chapter Rank #545the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1]golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinary
- 虽说x1 | Chapter Rank #546though; although
- 很x3 | Chapter Rank #79very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- 早就x3 | Chapter Rank #80already at an earlier time