The Rise of the Great Powers
Episode review
A Small Nation with a Great Cause: the Netherlands
S1E2 · 小国大业（荷兰）
Vocabulary
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| 船只 船隻 | ship; boat; vessel | |
| 淹没 淹沒 | to submerge; to drown; to flood; to drown out (also fig.) | |
| 此前 此前 | before this; before then; previously | |
| 开创 開創 | to initiate; to start; to found | |
| 打发 打發 | to dispatch sb to do sth; to make sb leave; to pass (the time); (old) to make arrangements; (old) to bestow (alms etc) | |
| 小麦 小麥 | wheat | |
| 储存 儲存 | stockpile; to store; to stockpile; storage | |
| 夺取 奪取 | to seize; to capture; to wrest control of | |
| 收取 收取 | to receive; to collect | |
| 海外 海外 | overseas; abroad | |
| 马车 馬車 | cart; chariot; carriage; buggy | |
| 船长 船長 | captain (of a boat); skipper | |
| 一贯 一貫 | consistent; constant; from start to finish; all along; persistent | |
| 城堡 城堡 | castle; rook (chess piece) | |
| 出路 出路 | a way out (lit. and fig.); opportunity for advancement; a way forward; outlet (for one's products) | |
| 平凡 平凡 | commonplace; ordinary; mediocre | |
| 特意 特意 | specially; intentionally | |
| 不仅仅 不僅僅 | not only; not just | |
| 派出 派出 | to send; to dispatch | |
| 认同 認同 | to approve of; to endorse; to acknowledge; to recognize; to identify oneself with | |
| 信用 信用 | trustworthiness; (commerce) credit; (literary) to trust and appoint | |
| 洋 洋 | ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin | |
| 歌词 歌詞 | song lyric; lyrics | |
| 花费 花費 | expense; cost; to spend (time or money); expenditure | |
| 港口 港口 | port; harbor | |
| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that | |
| 反抗 反抗 | to resist; to rebel | |
| 吞 吞 | to swallow; to take | |
| 丧失 喪失 | to lose; to forfeit | |
| 住宅 住宅 | residence; dwelling; abode | |
| 皇帝 皇帝 | emperor | |
| 股东 股東 | shareholder; stockholder | |
| 占据 佔據 | to occupy; to hold | |
| 诞生 誕生 | to be born | |
| 活跃 活躍 | active; lively; excited; to enliven; to brighten up | |
| 争夺 爭奪 | to fight over; to contest; to vie over | |
| 仓库 倉庫 | depot; storehouse; warehouse | |
| 忽略 忽略 | to neglect; to overlook; to ignore | |
| 平台 平臺 | platform; terrace; flat-roofed building | |
| 前来 前來 | to come (formal); before; previously | |
| 从不 從不 | never | |
| 抵抗 抵抗 | to resist; resistance | |
| 足以 足以 | sufficient to...; so much so that; so that | |
| 跨 跨 | to step across; to stride over; to straddle; to span | |
| 循环 循環 | to cycle; to circulate; circle; loop | |
| 金融 金融 | banking; finance; financial | |
| 海洋 海洋 | ocean | |
| 探索 探索 | to explore; to probe | |
| 富有 富有 | rich; wealthy; affluent; to be rich in; to be replete with | |
| 主角 主角 | leading role; lead; protagonist |