Vocabulary
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| 夜盲 夜盲 | night blindness | |
| 筒子 筒子 | tube-shaped object; tube; bobbin; (Internet slang) homonym for | |
| 睹物思人 睹物思人 | (idiom) to fondly remember a person on seeing sth one associates with them | |
| 胜之不武 勝之不武 | (fig.) to fight a one-sided battle; to have an unfair advantage in a contest | |
| 儿女之情 兒女之情 | 儿: son, child; KangXi radical 10 · 女: woman, girl; feminine; rad. 38 · 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to · 情: feeling, sentiment, emotion | |
| 你情我愿 你情我願 | to both be willing; mutual consent | |
| 塔尖 塔尖 | spire; peak of a pagoda | |
| 狎妓 狎妓 | (old) to visit prostitutes | |
| 逗乐 逗樂 | to amuse oneself; to clown around; to provoke laughter | |
| 礼贤下士 禮賢下士 | respect for the wise | |
| 霸业 霸業 | the task of establishing and maintaining hegemony | |
| 姬妾 姬妾 | concubine | |
| 独具 獨具 | to have unique (talent, insight etc) | |
| 表露 表露 | to show; to reveal (one's feelings etc) | |
| 国计民生 國計民生 | 国: nation, country, nation-state · 计: plan, plot; strategem; scheme · 民: people, subjects, citizens · 生: life, living, lifetime; birth | |
| 放眼望去 放眼望去 | as far as the eye can see | |
| 大失所望 大失所望 | greatly disappointed | |
| 不是吃素的 不是吃素的 | not to be trifled with; to be reckoned with | |
| 误杀 誤殺 | to mistakenly kill; manslaughter | |
| 侧门 側門 | side door | |
| 案文 案文 | text | |
| 主祭 主祭 | to perform the sacrificial rites at a funeral | |
| 诏旨 詔旨 | imperial edict | |
| 祭酒 祭酒 | to offer a libation; person who performs the libation before a banquet; senior member of a profession; important government post in imperial China | |
| 直陈 直陳 | to say straight out; to point out bluntly; to give a straightforward account; to disclose | |
| 不吝 不吝 | not to stint; to be generous (with praise etc); to be prepared to (pay a fee, give of one's time etc) | |
| 银屑 銀屑 | silver chloride AgCL | |
| 违心之论 違心之論 | 违: disobey, violate, defy; be apart from · 心: heart; mind, intelligence; soul · 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to · 论: debate; discuss; discourse | |
| 澹泊 澹泊 | variant of | |
| 前途未卜 前途未卜 | hanging in the balance; the future is hard to forecast; ¿Qué serà?; who knows what the future holds? | |
| 无名之辈 無名之輩 | unknown person; nobody | |
| 红姑娘 紅姑娘 | Chinese lantern plant; winter cherry; strawberry ground-cherry; Physalis alkekengi | |
| 一日不如一日 一日不如一日 | to be getting worse by the day | |
| 踏看 踏看 | to investigate on the spot | |
| 和善 和善 | good-natured | |
| 镇暴 鎮暴 | to suppress a riot; riot control | |
| 舌战 舌戰 | verbal sparring; duel of words | |
| 勒马 勒馬 | to guide a horse with the reins; to rein in a horse | |
| 泄私愤 洩私憤 | to vent personal spite; to act out of malice (esp. of crime) | |
| 上弦 上弦 | to wind up a watch, clockwork toy etc; to tighten the string of a bow, violin etc; first quarter (phase of the moon) | |
| 大有起色 大有起色 | 大: big, great, vast, large, high · 有: have, own, possess; exist · 起: rise, stand up; go up; begin · 色: color, tint, hue, shade; form, body; beauty, desire for beauty | |
| 秉烛 秉燭 | variant of | |
| 勤能补拙 勤能補拙 | 勤: industrious, diligent, attentive · 能: to be able; can, permitted to; ability · 补: mend, patch, fix, repair, restore · 拙: stupid, clumsy, crude; convention | |
| 幕后黑手 幕後黑手 | malign agent who manipulates from behind the scenes; hidden hand | |
| 拨乱反正 撥亂反正 | bring order out of chaos; set to rights things which have been thrown into disorder | |
| 滋事 滋事 | to cause trouble; to provoke a dispute | |
| 无功而返 無功而返 | to return without any achievement (idiom); to go home with one's tail between one's legs | |
| 娇纵 嬌縱 | to indulge (a child); to pamper; to spoil | |
| 恣意妄为 恣意妄為 | to behave unscrupulously | |
| 浪迹江湖 浪跡江湖 | to roam far and wide; to drift with the wind |