Vocabulary
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| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 不知所以 不知所以 | (idiom) to not know the reason; (idiom) to not know what to do | Idiom |
| 言听计从 言聽計從 | to see, hear and obey (idiom); to take advice; to take sb at his word | Idiom |
| 尽人皆知 盡人皆知 | known by everyone (idiom); well known; a household name | Idiom |
| 牵一发而动全身 牽一髮而動全身 | lit. pulling a single hair makes the whole body move (idiom); fig. a small change in one part can affect the whole system | Idiom |
| 大错特错 大錯特錯 | to be gravely mistaken (idiom) | Idiom |
| 涂脂抹粉 塗脂抹粉 | (idiom) to put on makeup; (idiom) to prettify | Idiom |
| 尽心尽力 盡心盡力 | making an all-out effort (idiom); to try one's heart out; to do one's utmost | Idiom |
| 贱人 賤人 | slut; cheap person | Xiehouyu |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 娘娘 娘娘 | queen; empress; imperial concubine; Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West; mother; aunt | |
| 臣妾 臣妾 | (literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female); (archaic) male and female slaves; subjects (of a ruler) | |
| 时辰 時辰 | two-hour period | |
| 微臣 微臣 | this small official; humble servant | |
| 哀家 哀家 | I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas) | |
| 六宫 六宮 | empress and imperial concubines or their residence | |
| 嫔妃 嬪妃 | imperial concubine | |
| 奴婢 奴婢 | slave servant | |
| 服软 服軟 | to admit defeat; to give in; to acknowledge a mistake; to apologize; to be amenable to persuasion | |
| 福晋 福晉 | in Qing dynasty, Manchurian word for wife | |
| 协理 協理 | assistant manager; to assist in managing | |
| 侍奉 侍奉 | to wait upon; to serve; to attend to sb's needs | |
| 凡事 凡事 | everything | |
| 銮驾 鑾駕 | imperial chariot | |
| 下跪 下跪 | to kneel; to go down on one's knees | |
| 暴晒 暴曬 | (of the sun) to scorch; to expose to a scorching sun | |
| 狠毒 狠毒 | vicious; malicious; savage | |
| 气盛 氣盛 | red-blooded; full of vim; impetuous | |
| 泄恨 洩恨 | to give vent to anger | |
| 失礼 失禮 | discourteous | |
| 躲懒 躲懶 | to shy away from work; to get by without attending duty | |
| 肚兜 肚兜 | undergarment covering the chest and abdomen | |
| 老朽 老朽 | decrepit and behind the times; old; useless; (humble) I; me (used by the elderly) | |
| 息怒 息怒 | to calm down; to quell one's anger | |
| 惹怒 惹怒 | to provoke anger | |
| 怒气 怒氣 | anger | |
| 大怒 大怒 | to become furious; to explode in anger | |
| 意料之中 意料之中 | to come as no surprise; as expected | |
| 定夺 定奪 | to make a decision; to determine | |
| 人祸 人禍 | man-made disaster | |
| 盛夏 盛夏 | midsummer; the height of summer | |
| 母体 母體 | (zoology, medicine) mother's body; (chemistry etc) parent; matrix; (statistics) population; parent population | |
| 不妥 不妥 | not proper; inappropriate | |
| 不敬 不敬 | disrespect; irreverent; rude; insufficiently respectful (to a superior) | |
| 难产 難產 | difficult birth; (fig.) difficult to achieve | |
| 血崩 血崩 | metrorrhagia (vaginal bleeding outside the expected menstrual period) | |
| 进宫 進宮 | to enter the emperor's palace; (slang) to go to jail | |
| 凌辱 凌辱 | to insult; to humiliate; to bully | |
| 枉费 枉費 | to waste (one's breath, one's energy etc); to try in vain |