Vocabulary
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| 御赐 御賜 | to be bestowed by the emperor | |
| 未亡人 未亡人 | a widow (a widow's way of referring to herself in former times) | |
| 趟浑水 趟渾水 | (fig.) to get involved in an unsavory enterprise | |
| 寒冬腊月 寒冬臘月 | the cold of midwinter; the depths of winter (the twelfth lunar month) | |
| 忠臣 忠臣 | faithful official | |
| 娴雅 嫻雅 | refined; graceful; elegant; serene | |
| 狂妄 狂妄 | egotistical; arrogant; brassy | |
| 可欺 可欺 | gullible; easily bullied; weak | |
| 砸死 砸死 | to crush to death | |
| 素有 素有 | to have; to have always had | |
| 名优 名優 | excellent quality; outstanding (product); abbr. for 名牌優質|名牌优质; (old) famous actor or actress | |
| 俗世 俗世 | the mundane world; the world of mortals | |
| 慵懒 慵懶 | languid; indolent | |
| 德才兼备 德才兼備 | (idiom) possessing both integrity and talent | |
| 臣属 臣屬 | official in feudal court; subject | |
| 始料未及 始料未及 | not expected at the outset (idiom); unforeseen; to be surprised by the turn of events | |
| 君子之交 君子之交 | friendship between gentlemen, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi) | |
| 胸宽 胸寬 | width of chest | |
| 尽如人意 盡如人意 | to be just as one wishes (idiom); usu. negated: not everything turns out as one would like | |
| 胆小怕事 膽小怕事 | timid and afraid of getting involved (idiom); cowardly and shrinking from trouble | |
| 诗酒风流 詩酒風流 | the romantic life of poetry and wine (idiom); the refined, dissolute elegance of a literatus | |
| 奉召 奉召 | to receive orders | |
| 宿儒 宿儒 | experienced scholar; old expert in the field | |
| 谋面 謀面 | to meet | |
| 委以重任 委以重任 | (literary) to entrust (sb) with an important task | |
| 由来已久 由來已久 | to be of long standing; to have a long history (idiom); going back a long way | |
| 叱吒 叱吒 | variant of | |
| 百密一疏 百密一疏 | one slip despite a hundred precautions (idiom); even the most careful plan has a loophole | |
| 泡茶 泡茶 | to make tea | |
| 如此这般 如此這般 | thus and so; such and such | |
| 乐理 樂理 | music theory | |
| 杀人灭口 殺人滅口 | (idiom) to kill sb to prevent them from revealing sth | |
| 毋庸 毋庸 | no need for | |
| 置疑 置疑 | to doubt | |
| 卧房 臥房 | bedroom; a sleeping compartment (on a train) | |
| 睁一只眼闭一只眼 睜一隻眼閉一隻眼 | to turn a blind eye | |
| 捎信 捎信 | to take a letter; to send word | |
| 攻其不备 攻其不備 | to attack the enemy when he is unprepared (idiom); to catch sb off guard | |
| 捕拿 捕拿 | to arrest; to capture; to catch | |
| 候审 候審 | awaiting trial | |
| 含混 含混 | vague; unclear; ambiguous | |
| 弹珠 彈珠 | a marble (used in games) | |
| 偏执 偏執 | extreme and inflexible; fixated; stubborn in clinging to a notion; (psychology) paranoid | |
| 兵制 兵制 | military system | |
| 忠勇 忠勇 | loyal and brave | |
| 因果报应 因果報應 | (Buddhism) retribution; karma | |
| 叛逃 叛逃 | to defect | |
| 浑身上下 渾身上下 | all over; from head to toe | |
| 洗冤 洗冤 | to right a wrong; to redress an injustice | |
| 真假难辨 真假難辨 | hard to distinguish real from imitation |