Vocabulary
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| 王公 王公 | princes and dukes; aristocrat | |
| 要塞 要塞 | stronghold; fort; fortification | |
| 士族 士族 | land-owning class, esp. during Wei, Jin and North-South dynasties | |
| 千佛洞 千佛洞 | Buddhist grottos | |
| 皈依 皈依 | to convert to (a religion) | |
| 横贯 橫貫 | horizontal traverse; to cut across; to cross transversally | |
| 割据 割據 | to set up an independent regime; to secede; segmentation; division; fragmentation | |
| 隐居 隱居 | to live in seclusion | |
| 都护 都護 | (old) highest administrative post in border areas; governor of a march | |
| 积雪 積雪 | snow; snow cover; snow mantle | |
| 离乡背井 離鄉背井 | to leave one's homeplace (to find work, flee disaster etc) | |
| 归附 歸附 | to realign one's allegiance (to another religion, ruler etc); to submit | |
| 洪流 洪流 | a powerful current; a flood (often fig., e.g. a flood of ideas) | |
| 钻探 鑽探 | to conduct exploratory drilling | |
| 风霜 風霜 | wind and frost; fig. hardships | |
| 莫名 莫名 | inexpressible; indescribable; unexplainable; inexplicable | |
| 学识 學識 | erudition; scholarly knowledge | |
| 斩断 斬斷 | to cut off; to chop sth in half | |
| 孔雀 孔雀 | peafowl; peacock | |
| 印记 印記 | imprint; trace | |
| 流逝 流逝 | (of time) to pass; to elapse | |
| 侵扰 侵擾 | to invade and harass | |
| 侍郎 侍郎 | (Ming and Qing dynasties) vice-minister of one of the Six Boards; (also an official title in earlier dynasties) | |
| 君臣 君臣 | a ruler and his ministers (old) | |
| 赞颂 讚頌 | to bless; to praise | |
| 病逝 病逝 | to die of illness | |
| 文武 文武 | civil and military | |
| 国策 國策 | a national policy | |
| 走入 走入 | to walk into | |
| 西征 西征 | punitive expedition to the west | |
| 迎娶 迎娶 | (of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding ceremony; (fig.) to take as one's wife; to marry (a woman) | |
| 百余 百餘 | a hundred or more | |
| 帝都 帝都 | imperial capital | |
| 颇为 頗為 | rather; quite | |
| 临摹 臨摹 | to copy (a model of calligraphy or painting etc) | |
| 混战 混戰 | chaotic warfare; confused fighting; melee; to join in such fighting | |
| 惨败 慘敗 | to suffer a crushing defeat | |
| 掩体 掩體 | bunker (military) | |
| 受限 受限 | to be limited; to be restricted; to be constrained | |
| 隆起 隆起 | to swell; to bulge | |
| 彩绘 彩繪 | painted; colored painted-on designs | |
| 探险家 探險家 | explorer | |
| 远征军 遠征軍 | expeditionary force; army on a distant expedition | |
| 西方净土 西方淨土 | 西: west(ern); westward, occident · 方: a square, rectangle; a region; local · 净: clean, pure; cleanse · 土: soil, earth; items made of earth | |
| 油井 油井 | oil well | |
| 矿体 礦體 | ore body (geology) | |
| 化作 化作 | to change into; to turn into; to become | |
| 功德 功德 | achievements and virtue | |
| 先祖 先祖 | (literary) my deceased grandfather; (literary) ancestors | |
| 相助 相助 | help |