The Founding of a Republic 2009
建国大业
The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
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Vocabulary
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| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 高手 高手 | expert; past master; dab hand | Xiehouyu |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 一党 一黨 | one-party (state) | |
| 协商会议 協商會議 | consultative conference (political venue during early communist rule); consultative meeting; deliberative assembly | |
| 督导 督導 | to direct; to oversee | |
| 共同点 共同點 | common ground | |
| 入关 入關 | to enter a pass; to go through customs | |
| 罪人 罪人 | sinner | |
| 以期 以期 | in order to; hoping to; attempting to; waiting for | |
| 旗号 旗號 | military banner (often used figuratively, usually pejoratively, to mean "pretext" or "ostensible purpose"); flag signal; semaphore | |
| 社会贤达 社會賢達 | 社: god of the soil and altars to him; group of families; company, society · 会: assemble, meet together; meeting · 贤: virtuous, worthy, good; able · 达: arrive at, reach; intelligent; smooth, slippery | |
| 担架 擔架 | stretcher; litter; bier | |
| 大公 大公 | grand duke; impartial | |
| 囤积 囤積 | to stock up; to lay in supplies; to hoard (for speculation); to corner the market in sth | |
| 败仗 敗仗 | lost battle; defeat | |
| 船舱 船艙 | hold of ship | |
| 观瞻 觀瞻 | appearance; view; abiding impression | |
| 捷报 捷報 | report of success; report of a victory | |
| 相逢 相逢 | to meet (by chance); to come across | |
| 恩仇 恩仇 | debt of gratitude coupled with duty to avenge | |
| 受降仪式 受降儀式 | a surrender ceremony | |
| 民族英雄 民族英雄 | national hero | |
| 公务人员 公務人員 | government functionary | |
| 民主革命 民主革命 | democratic revolution; bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution) | |
| 同宗同源 同宗同源 | to share the same origins; to have common roots | |
| 存续 存續 | to continue to exist | |
| 相依 相依 | to be interdependent | |
| 鄙人 鄙人 | your humble servant; I | |
| 试探性 試探性 | exploratory; tentative | |
| 诛心之论 誅心之論 | a devastating criticism; to expose hidden motives | |
| 谈不拢 談不攏 | can't come to an agreement | |
| 麦淇淋 麥淇淋 | margarine (loanword) | |
| 借以 藉以 | so as to; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 特使 特使 | special envoy; special ambassador | |
| 乌纱帽 烏紗帽 | black gauze hat (worn by an imperial official as a sign of his position); (fig.) official post | |
| 串联 串聯 | to establish ties; to contact; (electricity) to connect (components) in series | |
| 行凶 行兇 | violent crime; to commit a violent act (assault or murder) | |
| 撕破脸 撕破臉 | to have an acrimonious falling-out; to shed all pretense of cordiality; to tear into each other | |
| 撇开 撇開 | to disregard; to leave aside | |
| 独角戏 獨角戲 | monodrama; one-man show; comic talk | |
| 出洋 出洋 | to go abroad (old) | |
| 辞行 辭行 | to say goodbye; leave-taking; farewells | |
| 败亡 敗亡 | to be defeated and dispersed | |
| 割据 割據 | to set up an independent regime; to secede; segmentation; division; fragmentation | |
| 不甘心 不甘心 | not reconciled to; not resigned to | |
| 耕者有其田 耕者有其田 | "land to the tiller", post-Liberation land reform movement instigated by the CCP | |
| 不顾一切 不顧一切 | (idiom) to disregard all negative considerations; to cast aside all concerns | |
| 计票 計票 | count of votes |