Vocabulary
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| 血淋淋 血淋淋 | bloody; blood-soaked; gory; grisly; cruel; brutal; harsh; grim; bitter | |
| 就寝 就寢 | to go to sleep; to go to bed (literary) | |
| 话虽如此 話雖如此 | be that as it may | |
| 再犯 再犯 | to re-offend; repeat offender; recidivist | |
| 劳苦功高 勞苦功高 | to have toiled hard and rendered great service (idiom); deserving of credit for hard work | |
| 逃过一劫 逃過一劫 | (idiom) to survive a calamity; to get through a crisis | |
| 端倪 端倪 | boundary; clue; indication; to obtain clues; to infer | |
| 何足挂齿 何足掛齒 | not worth mentioning (idiom); a trifle hardly worth bringing up | |
| 音容笑貌 音容笑貌 | the voice, face, and smile of someone (idiom); the remembered features of a person, esp. one deceased | |
| 凭吊 憑弔 | to visit a place for the memories; to pay homage to (the deceased) | |
| 当局者迷 當局者迷 | the player is blind to the game (idiom); those involved lack the clear perspective of an onlooker | |
| 大染缸 大染缸 | big dyeing vat; (fig.) corrupting environment | |
| 清秀 清秀 | delicate and pretty | |
| 喘不过气来 喘不過氣來 | to be unable to breathe | |
| 善缘 善緣 | good karma | |
| 得宠 得寵 | to be a favorite; favor | |
| 妃嫔 妃嬪 | imperial concubine | |
| 倦怠 倦怠 | worn out; exhausted; dispirited | |
| 弓弦 弓弦 | bowstring | |
| 大略 大略 | a broad outline; the general idea; roughly | |
| 御膳房 御膳房 | imperial kitchen | |
| 新宠 新寵 | current favorite; the latest thing; darling (of the market or the media etc) | |
| 左膀右臂 左膀右臂 | trusted assistant; key aide | |
| 感同身受 感同身受 | to feel as if it had happened to oneself; to sympathize; (polite expression of gratitude for a favor received by a friend etc) I take it as a personal favor | |
| 妆扮 妝扮 | variant of | |
| 疏忽大意 疏忽大意 | oversight; negligence; careless; negligent; not concentrating on the main point | |
| 官复原职 官復原職 | restored to one's official post; to send sb back to his former post | |
| 意料之中 意料之中 | to come as no surprise; as expected | |
| 出嫁 出嫁 | to get married (of woman) | |
| 卖乖 賣乖 | to show off one's cleverness; (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by | |
| 烤火 烤火 | to warm oneself at a fire | |
| 一切如旧 一切如舊 | everything as before | |
| 来势汹汹 來勢洶洶 | to come on menacingly; advancing with great force (idiom) | |
| 上上之策 上上之策 | the best policy; the best thing one can do in the circumstances | |
| 割爱 割愛 | to part with sth cherished; to forsake | |
| 迁居 遷居 | to move (from one residence to another) | |
| 万全之策 萬全之策 | a perfectly safe plan; a foolproof strategy (idiom) | |
| 家产 家產 | family property | |
| 牟取暴利 牟取暴利 | to reap huge profits (esp. by unscrupulous means) | |
| 何患无辞 何患無辭 | why worry about lacking a pretext (idiom); one can always find an excuse (esp. to accuse someone) | |
| 滴水 滴水 | water drop; dripping water | |
| 置喙 置喙 | to offer an opinion; to comment (on the issue); to have a say (in the matter) | |
| 不臣之心 不臣之心 | disloyal intentions; a traitorous heart (idiom); ambition to usurp one's ruler | |
| 悖逆 悖逆 | contrary | |
| 抛却 拋卻 | to discard | |
| 惹人注目 惹人注目 | to attract attention; noticeable | |
| 不提也罢 不提也罷 | best not to mention it; drop it; never mind; let's not talk about it | |
| 奉天承运 奉天承運 | in accordance with the will of Heaven (idiom); opening phrase of imperial edicts | |
| 素雅 素雅 | simple yet elegant | |
| 身外之物 身外之物 | mere worldly possessions |