Vocabulary
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| 生灵涂炭 生靈塗炭 | people are in a terrible situation (idiom) | Idiom |
| 在所难免 在所難免 | to be unavoidable (idiom) | Idiom |
| 同归于尽 同歸於盡 | to die in such a way that sb (or sth) else also perishes; to take sb down with oneself; to end in mutual destruction | Xiehouyu |
| 蠢货 蠢貨 | blockhead; idiot; dunce; moron; fool | Xiehouyu |
| 一家之主 一家之主 | master of the house; head of the family | Xiehouyu |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 寒鸦 寒鴉 | (bird species of China) western jackdaw; Eurasian jackdaw (Coloeus monedula) | |
| 试炼 試煉 | to refine with fire | |
| 异化 異化 | alienation (philosophy); (of speech) dissimilation | |
| 细作 細作 | (old) spy; secret agent | |
| 连珠 連珠 | joined as a string of pearls; in rapid succession; alignment; Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row | |
| 云雀 雲雀 | (bird species of China) Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis) | |
| 精锐 精銳 | elite (e.g. troops); crack; best quality personnel | |
| 砍断 砍斷 | to chop off | |
| 献祭 獻祭 | to offer sacrifice | |
| 苍生 蒼生 | (area where) vegetation grows; the common people | |
| 日月合璧 日月合璧 | 日: sun; day; daytime · 月: moon; month; KangXi radical 74 · 合: combine, unite, join; gather · 璧: piece of jade with hole in it | |
| 吉兆 吉兆 | lucky omen | |
| 心肺 心肺 | the heart and lungs; cardiopulmonary | |
| 攻入 攻入 | to force entrance into; to score a goal (sport) | |
| 解药 解藥 | antidote | |
| 进宫 進宮 | to enter the emperor's palace; (slang) to go to jail | |
| 岗哨 崗哨 | lookout post; sentry post; sentry | |
| 辰时 辰時 | 7-9 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) | |
| 事到如今 事到如今 | as matters stand; things having reached this stage | |
| 狡辩 狡辯 | to deflect blame from oneself with a dishonest story; to make excuses | |
| 通风报信 通風報信 | 通: pass through, common, communicate · 风: wind; air; manners, atmosphere · 报: report, tell, announce · 信: trust, believe; letter | |
| 桎梏 桎梏 | (literary) shackles | |
| 情深义重 情深義重 | 情: feeling, sentiment, emotion · 深: deep; depth; far; very, extreme · 义: right conduct, righteousness · 重: heavy, weighty; double | |
| 吟诗 吟詩 | to recite poetry | |
| 感怀 感懷 | to recall with emotion; to feel sentiments | |
| 胭脂 胭脂 | rouge | |
| 泥泞 泥濘 | muddy; mud | |
| 不干涉 不干涉 | noninterference; nonintervention | |
| 石碑 石碑 | stele; stone tablet (for inscription) | |
| 原来如此 原來如此 | (idiom) so that's how it is; I see | |
| 一族 一族 | social group; subculture; family; clan; see also | |
| 三族 三族 | (old) three generations (father, self and sons); three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's) | |
| 险恶 險惡 | dangerous; sinister; vicious | |
| 不堪设想 不堪設想 | too horrible to contemplate; unthinkable; inconceivable | |
| 封印 封印 | seal (on envelopes) | |
| 若非 若非 | were it not for; if not for | |
| 存亡 存亡 | to live or die; to exist or perish | |
| 好恶 好惡 | lit. likes and dislikes; preferences; taste | |
| 姨娘 姨娘 | maternal aunt; father's concubine (old) | |
| 逼问 逼問 | to question intensely; to interrogate; to demand information | |
| 计谋 計謀 | stratagem; scheme | |
| 手足 手足 | hands and feet; (fig.) brothers; retinue, henchmen, accomplices | |
| 没心没肺 沒心沒肺 | simple-minded; thoughtless; heartless; nitwitted | |
| 调理 調理 | to nurse one's health; to recuperate; to take care of; to look after; to discipline; to educate; to train; to prepare food; (dialect) to make fun of; (medicine) to opsonize |