Vocabulary
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| 臣妾 臣妾 | (literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female); (archaic) male and female slaves; subjects (of a ruler) | |
| 哀家 哀家 | I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas) | |
| 生母 生母 | natural mother; birth mother | |
| 奴婢 奴婢 | slave servant | |
| 微臣 微臣 | this small official; humble servant | |
| 眷顾 眷顧 | to care for; to show concern for; to think longingly (of one's country) | |
| 侍奉 侍奉 | to wait upon; to serve; to attend to sb's needs | |
| 御史 御史 | imperial censor (formal title of a dynastic official) | |
| 嫔妃 嬪妃 | imperial concubine | |
| 嫌隙 嫌隙 | hostility; animosity | |
| 窝囊 窩囊 | to feel vexed; annoyed; good-for-nothing; stupid and cowardly | |
| 君王 君王 | monarch | |
| 告退 告退 | to petition for retirement (old); to ask for leave to withdraw; to ask to be excused | |
| 往昔 往昔 | the past | |
| 旨意 旨意 | decree | |
| 肝火 肝火 | irascibility; irritability; (TCM) inflammation of the liver | |
| 息怒 息怒 | to calm down; to quell one's anger | |
| 不肖 不肖 | (literary) unlike one's parents; degenerate; unworthy | |
| 睁一只眼闭一只眼 睜一隻眼閉一隻眼 | to turn a blind eye | |
| 不妥 不妥 | not proper; inappropriate | |
| 隐忍 隱忍 | to bear patiently; to endure silently; to forbear | |
| 颇多 頗多 | (quite) a lot; many | |
| 首鼠两端 首鼠兩端 | (idiom) to hesitate; to remain undecided | |
| 若非 若非 | were it not for; if not for | |
| 帝王将相 帝王將相 | 帝: supreme ruler, emperor; god · 王: king, ruler; royal; surname · 将: will, going to, future; general · 相: mutual, reciprocal, each other | |
| 掣肘 掣肘 | to hold sb back by the elbow; to impede; to hinder | |
| 兄长 兄長 | elder brother | |
| 恩德 恩德 | benevolence; favor | |
| 揣度 揣度 | to estimate; to surmise; to appraise | |
| 有劳 有勞 | thank you for the trouble | |
| 施恩 施恩 | to confer a favor on sb; to confer a benefit | |
| 一族 一族 | social group; subculture; family; clan; see also 族[zu2] | |
| 尽心 盡心 | with all of one's heart | |
| 附议 附議 | to second a motion | |
| 荣辱 榮辱 | honor and disgrace; reputation | |
| 独独 獨獨 | alone | |
| 赐给 賜給 | to bestow; to give | |
| 逼宫 逼宮 | to force the king or emperor to abdicate | |
| 兵权 兵權 | military leadership; military power | |
| 配制 配製 | to compound (medicines etc); to prepare (by mixing ingredients); to concoct | |
| 避嫌 避嫌 | to avoid arousing suspicion | |
| 霜雪 霜雪 | frost and snow; (fig.) snowy white (hair); adversity | |
| 滴答 滴答 | (onom.) pattering sound; drip drip (of water); tick tock (of clock); also pr. [di1 da5] | |
| 人尽皆知 人盡皆知 | see 盡人皆知|尽人皆知[jin4 ren2 jie1 zhi1] | |
| 疏远 疏遠 | to drift apart; to become estranged; to alienate; estrangement | |
| 腻味 膩味 | tired of; fed up with; sick of; (of a person) to annoy; to be tiresome | |
| 臣子 臣子 | official in feudal court; subject | |
| 拘礼 拘禮 | to stand on ceremony; punctilious | |
| 有何 有何 | what is there | |
| 皇恩 皇恩 | imperial kindness; benevolence from the emperor |