Vocabulary
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| 水坝 水壩 | dam; dike | |
| 愿景 願景 | vision (of the future) | |
| 荏苒 荏苒 | (literary) (of time) to slip away | |
| 归附 歸附 | to realign one's allegiance (to another religion, ruler etc); to submit | |
| 未遂 未遂 | to fail to accomplish; unsuccessful (attempt); abortive (coup d'état); attempted (murder, suicide); unfulfilled (wish) | |
| 独具 獨具 | to have unique (talent, insight etc) | |
| 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 | |
| 委以重任 委以重任 | (literary) to entrust (sb) with an important task | |
| 由来已久 由來已久 | 由: cause, reason; from · 来: come, coming; return, returning · 已: already; finished; stop · 久: long time (ago); time passage, grow late | |
| 解馋 解饞 | to satisfy one's craving | |
| 显露出 顯露出 | to reveal (a quality or feeling); to manifest; to evince | |
| 劫匪 劫匪 | bandit; robber | |
| 传为佳话 傳為佳話 | 传: summon; propagate, transmit · 为: do, handle, govern, act; be · 佳: good, auspicious; beautiful; delightful · 话: speech, talk, language; dialect | |
| 称帝 稱帝 | to declare oneself emperor; to win the best actor award | |
| 挥师 揮師 | in command of the army | |
| 誓死 誓死 | to pledge one's life | |
| 洗冤 洗冤 | to right a wrong; to redress an injustice | |
| 宗法 宗法 | patriarchal clan system | |
| 割让 割讓 | to cede; cession | |
| 坍塌 坍塌 | to collapse | |
| 回荡 迴盪 | to resound; to reverberate; to echo | |
| 百分之 百分之 | percent | |
| 名门望族 名門望族 | offspring a famous family (idiom); good breeding; blue blood | |
| 混战 混戰 | chaotic warfare; confused fighting; melee; to join in such fighting | |
| 清正 清正 | upright and honorable | |
| 嵌入 嵌入 | to insert; to embed | |
| 墨迹 墨跡 | ink marks; original calligraphy or painting of famous person | |
| 险要 險要 | strategically situated and easy to defend; strategic location | |
| 集市 集市 | market; bazaar; fair | |
| 士族 士族 | land-owning class, esp. during Wei, Jin and North-South dynasties | |
| 四溢 四溢 | (of a perfume or a foul odor) permeating the whole place; (of grease etc) dripping everywhere; flowing all over the place | |
| 驻足 駐足 | to stop (walking); to halt | |
| 弥留之际 彌留之際 | on one's deathbed; at the point of death | |
| 族长 族長 | clan elder | |
| 异象 異象 | (religion) a vision; strange phenomenon | |
| 倾囊 傾囊 | to empty out one's pocket; (fig.) to give everything one has (to help) | |
| 越界 越界 | to cross a border; to overstep a bound | |
| 谈妥 談妥 | to come to terms; to reach an agreement | |
| 公派 公派 | to send sb abroad at the government's expense | |
| 精炼 精煉 | to refine (a substance); to purify; to refine (one's skills, writing etc); refined; polished; succinct; skilled; capable | |
| 相距 相距 | distance apart; separated by a given distance | |
| 面纱 面紗 | veil | |
| 名不见经传 名不見經傳 | (lit.) name not encountered in the classics; unknown (person); nobody | |
| 倾尽 傾盡 | to do all one can; to give all one has | |
| 受限 受限 | to be limited; to be restricted; to be constrained | |
| 浩瀚 浩瀚 | vast (of ocean); boundless | |
| 良性循环 良性循環 | virtuous cycle (i.e. positive feedback loop) | |
| 独到之处 獨到之處 | 独: alone, single, solitary, only · 到: go to, arrive, been to · 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to · 处: place, locale; department | |
| 图集 圖集 | collection of pictures; atlas | |
| 憧憬 憧憬 | to long for; to look forward to |