The Rise of the Great Powers
Episode review
Crisis and the New Deal: United States
S1E11 · 危局新政(美国·下)
Vocabulary
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| 从未 從未 | never | |
| 率 率 | rate; frequency | |
| 领域 領域 | domain; sphere; field; territory; area | |
| 制 製 | to manufacture; to make | |
| 所谓 所謂 | so-called; what is called | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 德 德 | Germany; German; abbr. for 德国 | |
| 感 感 | to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~ | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 未 未 | not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 雄心勃勃 雄心勃勃 | aggressive and grand (idiom); ambitious; pushy | Idiom |
| 土崩瓦解 土崩瓦解 | to collapse; to fall apart | Idiom |
| 戛然而止 戛然而止 | with a grunting sound it stops (idiom); to come to an end spontaneously (esp. of sound) | Idiom |
| 行之有效 行之有效 | to be effective (idiom) | Idiom |
| 磨牙 磨牙 | to grind one's teeth (during sleep); pointless arguing; (coll.) molar | Colloquialism |
| 却是 卻是 | nevertheless; actually; the fact is ... | |
| 托拉斯 托拉斯 | trust (commerce) (loanword) | |
| 炼油 煉油 | oil refinery | |
| 反托拉斯 反托拉斯 | antitrust (loanword) | |
| 拖拉 拖拉 | to drag along; to haul; (fig.) to procrastinate; shilly-shallying; sluggish; (computing) drag and drop; (loanword) tola, unit of weight, approx. 11.664 grams | |
| 经济危机 經濟危機 | economic crisis | |
| 工业化国家 工業化國家 | industrialized country | |
| 鼓舞人心 鼓舞人心 | 鼓: drum; beat, top, strike · 舞: dance, posture, prance; brandish · 人: man; people; mankind; someone else · 心: heart; mind, intelligence; soul | |
| 夺目 奪目 | to dazzle the eyes | |
| 独立宣言 獨立宣言 | Declaration of Independence | |
| 拆解 拆解 | to disassemble | |
| 加薪 加薪 | to raise salary | |
| 霸主 霸主 | a powerful chief of the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); overlord; hegemon | |
| 蔷薇 薔薇 | Japanese rose (Rosa multiflora) | |
| 枝叶 枝葉 | branch and leaf | |
| 吞并 吞併 | to annex | |
| 无序 無序 | disorderly; irregular; lack of order | |
| 同工 同工 | fellow workers | |
| 劳作 勞作 | work; manual labor | |
| 矿难 礦難 | mining disaster | |
| 野马 野馬 | feral horse; free-roaming horse; wild horse | |
| 狂奔 狂奔 | to run like crazy; to rush | |
| 聚拢 聚攏 | to gather together | |
| 反垄断法 反壟斷法 | antitrust legislation | |
| 母校 母校 | alma mater | |
| 自幼 自幼 | from childhood | |
| 亲眼目睹 親眼目睹 | to see for oneself; to see with one's own eyes | |
| 掩藏 掩藏 | hidden; covered; concealed | |
| 黑幕 黑幕 | hidden details; dirty tricks; dark secrets | |
| 家公 家公 | head of a family; (polite) my father; (polite) my grandfather; your esteemed father | |
| 打理 打理 | to take care of; to sort out; to manage; to put in order | |
| 革命性 革命性 | revolutionary | |
| 国民生产总值 國民生產總值 | gross national product (GNP) |