Vocabulary
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| 商议 商議 | to negotiate; discussion; proposal | |
| 争辩 爭辯 | a dispute; to wrangle | |
| 温顺 溫順 | docile; meek | |
| 领命 領命 | to accept an order | |
| 姑母 姑母 | father's sister; paternal aunt | |
| 余下 餘下 | remaining | |
| 遥遥 遙遙 | distant; remote | |
| 惨死 慘死 | to die tragically; to meet with a violent death | |
| 感念 感念 | to recall fondly; to remember with emotion | |
| 临死 臨死 | facing death; at death's door | |
| 调制 調制 | to modulate; modulation | |
| 文臣 文臣 | civilian court official (in former times) | |
| 逝者 逝者 | the dead; the deceased | |
| 诸事 諸事 | everything; every matter | |
| 情面 情面 | feelings and sensibilities; sentiment and face; sensitivity to other's feelings | |
| 居功 居功 | to claim credit for oneself | |
| 嫡母 嫡母 | father's wife (term used by the children of a concubine to address their father's primary wife) | |
| 惨烈 慘烈 | bitter; desperate | |
| 疏漏 疏漏 | to slip up; to overlook by negligence; careless omission; oversight | |
| 不俗 不俗 | impressive; out of the ordinary | |
| 笼络 籠絡 | to coax; to beguile; to win over | |
| 制衡 制衡 | to check and balance (power); checks and balances | |
| 一党 一黨 | one-party (state) | |
| 人臣 人臣 | an official (in former times) | |
| 往昔 往昔 | the past | |
| 宗庙 宗廟 | temple; ancestral shrine | |
| 施恩 施恩 | to confer a favor on sb; to confer a benefit | |
| 避讳 避諱 | to avoid a taboo (usu. on the given names of emperors or one's elders) | |
| 光景 光景 | circumstances; scene; about; probably | |
| 护佑 護佑 | to bless and protect; to protect | |
| 低贱 低賤 | lowly; humble; cheap; inexpensive | |
| 惩治 懲治 | to punish | |
| 逆贼 逆賊 | renegade; traitor and bandit | |
| 苟且 苟且 | perfunctory; careless; drifting along; resigned to one's fate; improper (relations); illicit (sex) | |
| 服软 服軟 | to admit defeat; to give in; to acknowledge a mistake; to apologize; to be amenable to persuasion | |
| 秉公 秉公 | justly; impartially | |
| 畅快 暢快 | carefree | |
| 文采 文采 | literary talent; literary grace; rich and bright colors | |
| 熟识 熟識 | to be well acquainted with; to know well | |
| 克扣 剋扣 | to dock; to deduct; to embezzle | |
| 人多口杂 人多口雜 | lit. many people, many mouths (idiom); fig. word spreads when too many know; gossip is hard to contain | |
| 诊脉 診脈 | take pulse (TCM) | |
| 赏识 賞識 | to appreciate; to recognize the worth of sth; appreciation | |
| 先皇 先皇 | emperor of a former dynasty | |
| 肆意 肆意 | wantonly; recklessly; willfully | |
| 窝子 窩子 | lair; den; stronghold | |
| 公家 公家 | the public; the state; society; the public purse | |
| 揣度 揣度 | to estimate; to surmise; to appraise | |
| 慈爱 慈愛 | love; devotion (to children); affection, esp. towards children | |
| 孤傲 孤傲 | proud and aloof |