Vocabulary
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| 以 㕥 | old variant of 以 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 魂牵梦萦 魂牽夢縈 | (idiom) to miss very much; to yearn for | Idiom |
| 畅所欲言 暢所欲言 | lit. fluently saying all one wants (idiom); to preach freely on one's favorite topic; to hold forth to one's heart's content | Idiom |
| 直抒胸臆 直抒胸臆 | to speak one's mind | 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 |
| 一清二楚 一清二楚 | to be very clear about sth (idiom) | Idiom |
| 随波逐流 隨波逐流 | to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom); to follow the crowd blindly | Idiom |
| 鸟尽弓藏 鳥盡弓藏 | lit. the birds are over, the bow is put away (idiom); fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose | Idiom |
| 兔死狗烹 兔死狗烹 | lit. to boil the hound once it caught the rabbit (idiom); fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose | Idiom |
| 铁证如山 鐵證如山 | irrefutable evidence | Idiom |
| 耿耿于怀 耿耿於懷 | to take troubles to heart (idiom); brooding | Idiom |
| 人人自危 人人自危 | everyone feels in danger; an atmosphere of general insecurity (idiom) | Xiehouyu |
| 后继有人 後繼有人 | (idiom) to have qualified successors to carry on one's undertaking | Xiehouyu |
| 瞎说 瞎說 | to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about | Xiehouyu |
| 莫须有 莫須有 | groundless; baseless | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 兴许 興許 | (coll.) perhaps | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 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) | |
| 奴婢 奴婢 | slave servant | |
| 大牢 大牢 | prison | |
| 告发 告發 | to lodge an accusation; accusation (law) | |
| 娘家 孃家 | wife's family (before marriage) | |
| 螽斯 螽斯 | katydid or long-horned grasshopper (family Tettigoniidae) | |
| 临盆 臨盆 | at childbirth; in labor | |
| 进宫 進宮 | to enter the emperor's palace; (slang) to go to jail | |
| 告退 告退 | to petition for retirement (old); to ask for leave to withdraw; to ask to be excused | |
| 哀家 哀家 | I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas) | |
| 逆贼 逆賊 | renegade; traitor and bandit | |
| 一面之词 一面之詞 | one side of the story; one-sided statement | |
| 茱萸 茱萸 | cornel (Cornus spp.) | |
| 迁怒 遷怒 | to take one's anger out on sb (who does not deserve it) | |
| 大功 大功 | great merit; great service | |
| 办妥 辦妥 | to arrange; to settle; to complete; to carry through | |
| 一般无二 一般無二 | exactly alike (idiom); identical, no different from one another | |
| 何止 何止 | far more than; not just | |
| 寄予 寄予 | to place (hope, importance etc) on; to express; to show; to give | |
| 忧思 憂思 | to be anxious and worried; agitated; pensive | |
| 不敬 不敬 | disrespect; irreverent; rude; insufficiently respectful (to a superior) | |
| 含冤 含冤 | wronged; to suffer false accusations | |
| 恩宠 恩寵 | special favor from a ruler; Emperor's generosity towards a favorite | |
| 杏仁 杏仁 | almond; apricot kernel | |
| 苦涩 苦澀 | bitter and astringent; pained; agonized | |
| 有何 有何 | what is there | |
| 启奏 啟奏 | report to the emperor | |
| 适可而止 適可而止 | (idiom) to refrain from going too far; to know when to stop | |
| 尽职 盡職 | to discharge one's duties; conscientious |