The Rise of the Great Powers
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The Pioneer of Industrialisation: Britain
S1E4 · 工业先声（英国·下）
Vocabulary
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| 望 望 | full moon; to hope; to expect; to visit; to gaze (into the distance); to look towards; towards | |
| 原本 原本 | originally; original | |
| 官员 官員 | official (in an organization or government); administrator | |
| 革命 革命 | to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution; revolutionary; to revolt (against sb or sth); to revolutionize (sth); (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命) | |
| 业 業 | line of business; industry; occupation; job; employment; school studies; enterprise; property; (Buddhism) karma; deed; to engage in; already | |
| 从未 從未 | never | |
| 家族 家族 | family; clan | |
| 曲 曲 | bent; crooked; wrong | |
| 并非 並非 | really isn't | |
| 制 製 | to manufacture; to make | |
| 推荐 推薦 | to recommend; recommendation | |
| 灵 靈 | quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin | |
| 格 格 | square; frame; rule; (legal) case; style; character; standard; pattern; (grammar) case; (classical) to obstruct; to hinder; (classical) to arrive; to come; (classical) to investigate; to study exhaustively | |
| 需 需 | to require; to need; to want; necessity; need | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 则 則 | (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 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 | |
| 文治武功 文治武功 | political and military achievements (idiom) | Idiom |
| 捉襟见肘 捉襟見肘 | lit. pulling on the lapels exposes the elbows (idiom); strapped for cash; unable to make ends meet | Idiom |
| 梦寐以求 夢寐以求 | lit. to yearn for sth even in one's dreams (idiom); fig. to deeply long for; to covet | Idiom |
| 脱胎换骨 脫胎換骨 | to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist; to turn over a new leaf; fig. to change wholly; to create from other material (story, artwork etc) | Idiom |
| 不胜枚举 不勝枚舉 | too numerous to mention individually or one by one | Idiom |
| 如日中天 如日中天 | lit. like the sun at noon (idiom); fig. to be at the peak of one's power, career etc | Idiom |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 却是 卻是 | nevertheless; actually; the fact is ... | |
| 瓦特 瓦特 | watt (loanword) | |
| 蒸汽机 蒸汽機 | steam engine | |
| 王公 王公 | princes and dukes; aristocrat | |
| 文稿 文稿 | manuscript; article (in newspaper); draft | |
| 生产能力 生產能力 | manufacturing ability; production capacity | |
| 挽留 挽留 | to urge to stay; to detain | |
| 陛下 陛下 | Your Majesty | |
| 商界 商界 | business world; business community | |
| 往昔 往昔 | the past | |
| 工业化国家 工業化國家 | industrialized country | |
| 喧嚣 喧囂 | to clamor; to make noise | |
| 房主 房主 | landlord; house owner | |
| 机缘 機緣 | chance; opportunity; destiny | |
| 家产 家產 | family property | |
| 还债 還債 | to settle a debt | |
| 最低谷 最低谷 | lowest point; nadir | |
| 故土 故土 | native country; one's homeland | |
| 最优 最優 | optimal; optimum | |
| 搜罗 搜羅 | to gather; to collect; to bring together | |
| 激励机制 激勵機制 | incentive mechanism; incentives |