Words of the Day

When irrational people like Wang Anshi have political power, they tend to sap power from intelligent people.

拋pao1
cast aside, throw away

【三經新義】其差無比，他死後就被人拋到腦後，沒有一篇留下來。

There was nothing else comparable to "The New Righteousness of the Three Classics."  People cast it aside to the back of their minds, without a single copy remaining.

侮辱wu2ru3
to humiliate, to dishonor

他只花兩年完成【三經新義】， 尤其是對學術的一大侮辱。
He [Wang Anshi] spent only two years to write "The New Righteousness of the Three Classics," but it especially denigrated learning.

滑稽hua2ji1
funny, farcical

半吊子ban4diao4zi(light)
flakey, air head
It literally translates to "half a string of cash"


不過我要提一下，王安石的【字說】非常滑稽，和所有的半吊子的語學差不多。
But I would like to point out, Wang Anshi's "Words and Speech" is quite farcical, it has the language intelligence of any air-head.