Vocabulary
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| 上善若水 上善若水 | the ideal is to be like water (which benefits all living things and does not struggle against them) (quotation from the "Book of Dao") | |
| 验尸官 驗屍官 | coroner | |
| 周游世界 周遊世界 | to travel around the world | |
| 气宇 氣宇 | bearing; manner | |
| 再造之恩 再造之恩 | the kindness of giving sb a new life (idiom); a debt of gratitude for being saved | |
| 精纯 精純 | pure; unadulterated; exquisite | |
| 门户之见 門戶之見 | sectarian bias; parochialism | |
| 撒网 撒網 | to throw a net | |
| 神妙 神妙 | marvelous; wondrous | |
| 斗鸡 鬥雞 | cock fighting | |
| 正经八百 正經八百 | very serious; solemn | |
| 独角戏 獨角戲 | monodrama; one-man show; comic talk | |
| 诡辩 詭辯 | specious arguments; sophistry | |
| 超支 超支 | to overspend | |
| 耍弄 耍弄 | to play with; to engage in; to resort to; to dally with | |
| 湮灭 湮滅 | to sink into oblivion; to bury in obscurity | |
| 孤寡 孤寡 | orphans and widows; to be lonely; loneliness | |
| 逗弄 逗弄 | to tease; to provoke; to play with (a child, animal etc) | |
| 思辨 思辨 | to think critically; (philosophy) to reason; to speculate | |
| 藏拙 藏拙 | avoiding doing something that one is clumsy at to save face | |
| 不去理 不去理 | not to pay attention to; to leave sth as it is; to ignore | |
| 异端 異端 | heresy | |
| 鄙夷 鄙夷 | to despise; to look down on; to feel contempt for | |
| 摧锋陷阵 摧鋒陷陣 | to break the enemy's vanguard and charge their ranks (idiom); to fight valiantly at the front line | |
| 不成文 不成文 | unwritten (rule) | |
| 暖洋洋 暖洋洋 | warm and cozy; comfortably warm | |
| 聊表寸心 聊表寸心 | (of a gift) to be a small token of one's feelings | |
| 胜败乃兵家常事 勝敗乃兵家常事 | defeat is a common thing for a general (idiom); setbacks are routine in war; don't be discouraged by a loss | |
| 甘于 甘於 | to be willing to; to be ready to; to be content with; accepting (of restriction, sacrifice, risk etc) | |
| 吉兆 吉兆 | lucky omen | |
| 非富即贵 非富即貴 | wealthy and respectable people | |
| 天上不会掉馅饼 天上不會掉餡餅 | there is no such thing as a free lunch (idiom) | |
| 雇凶 僱兇 | to hire a hitman | |
| 鼎鼎有名 鼎鼎有名 | of great renown (idiom); illustrious; celebrated; famous | |
| 混子 混子 | hoodlum; person unfit for society | |
| 冥顽 冥頑 | stupidly obstinate | |
| 荧惑 熒惑 | to bewilder; to dazzle and confuse; the planet Mars | |
| 头梳 頭梳 | comb; hairbrush | |
| 暑往寒来 暑往寒來 | heat departs and cold arrives (idiom); the passing of the seasons; time flowing by | |
| 国无宁日 國無寧日 | the country has no peaceful days (idiom); a nation in constant turmoil | |
| 倚势凌人 倚勢凌人 | to bully others by relying on one's power (idiom); to abuse one's position to oppress people | |
| 叛国罪 叛國罪 | the crime of treason | |
| 贫困潦倒 貧困潦倒 | poverty-stricken and down on one's luck (idiom); destitute and frustrated | |
| 转瞬之间 轉瞬之間 | in the blink of an eye (idiom); in an instant; in a flash | |
| 勾栏 勾欄 | brothel; theater; carved balustrade | |
| 浩然之气 浩然之氣 | vast and noble spirit (idiom, from Mencius); great moral integrity and righteousness | |
| 艾蒿 艾蒿 | mugwort (Artemisia) | |
| 补剂 補劑 | tonic; supplement | |
| 牧养 牧養 | to raise (animals) | |
| 棕黄 棕黃 | light brown |