The Rise of the Great Powers

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A Small Nation with a Great Cause: the Netherlands

S1E2 · 小国大业（荷兰） xiǎo guódà yè （ hélán ）

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Vocabulary

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商船 商船 shāng chuán merchant ship ∼HSK 2
斯 斯 Sī this, thus, such; to lop off; emphatic particle ∼HSK 2
海上 海上 hǎi shàng maritime ∼HSK 2
船队 船隊 chuán duì fleet (of ships) ∼HSK 2
巴 巴 Bā greatly desire, anxiously hope ∼HSK 2
孩子们 孩子們 hái zi men children ∼HSK 2
万人 萬人 wàn rén ten thousand people; all the people; everyman ∼HSK 2
夫 夫 fū man, male adult, husband; those ∼HSK 2
立法 立法 lì fǎ to enact laws; to legislate; legislation ∼HSK 2
历史上 歷史上 lì shǐ shàng historical; in history ∼HSK 2
奥 奧 Ào mysterious, obscure, profound ∼HSK 2
联 聯 lián connect, join; associate, ally ∼HSK 2
维 維 Wéi maintain, preserve, safeguard ∼HSK 2
走向 走向 zǒu xiàng direction; strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology); inclination; trend; to move towards; to head for ∼HSK 2
海平面 海平面 hǎi píng miàn sea level ∼HSK 2
微 微 Wēi small, prefix micro-, trifling ∼HSK 2
什么地方 什麼地方 shén me dì fang somewhere; someplace; where ∼HSK 2
人意 人意 rén yì people's expectations ∼HSK 2
百万 百萬 bǎi wàn million ∼HSK 2
名叫 名叫 míng jiào called; named ∼HSK 2
商旅 商旅 shāng lǚ businessmen and travelers; traveling merchant; (Tw) business hotel ∼HSK 2
一只 一隻 yī zhǐ one (measure word for animals, boats, certain objects); a single ... ∼HSK 2
装满 裝滿 zhuāng mǎn to fill up ∼HSK 2
欧 歐 Ōu translit.: Europe; ohm; surname ∼HSK 2
水道 水道 shuǐ dào watercourse (river, canal, drain etc); water route; lane (in a swimming pool) ∼HSK 2
了当 了當 liǎo dàng frank; outspoken; ready; settled; in order; (old) to deal with; to handle ∼HSK 2
取出 取出 qǔ chū to take out; to extract; to draw out ∼HSK 2
物 物 wù thing, substance, creature ∼HSK 2
令人 令人 lìng rén to cause one (to do sth); to make one (angry, delighted etc) ∼HSK 2
世 世 Shì generation; world; era ∼HSK 2
成年人 成年人 chéng nián rén adult person ∼HSK 2
自治 自治 zì zhì autonomy ∼HSK 2
地接 地接 dì jiē local guide; tour escort ∼HSK 2
四面 四面 sì miàn all sides ∼HSK 2
更为 更為 gèng wéi even more ∼HSK 2
万亿 萬億 wàn yì trillion ∼HSK 2
战 戰 zhàn war, fighting, battle ∼HSK 2
平米 平米 píng mǐ square meter; short for 平方米 ∼HSK 2
流出 流出 liú chū to flow out; to disgorge; to effuse ∼HSK 2
易 易 Yì change; easy ∼HSK 2
河口 河口 hé kǒu estuary; the mouth of a river ∼HSK 2
完工 完工 wán gōng to finish work; to complete a project ∼HSK 2
尼 尼 ní Buddhist nun; transliteration ∼HSK 2
通商 通商 tōng shāng (of nations) to have trade relations; to engage in trade ∼HSK 2
云云 云云 yún yún and so on; so and so; many and confused ∼HSK 2
笔下 筆下 bǐ xià the wording and purport of what one writes ∼HSK 2
万名 萬名 wàn míng all names ∼HSK 2
零下 零下 líng xià below zero HSK 2
走进 走進 zǒu jìn to enter HSK 2
送到 送到 sòng dào Deliver HSK 2