Vocabulary
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| 门庭若市 門庭若市 | front yard as busy as a marketplace (idiom); a place with many visitors | Idiom |
| 门可罗雀 門可羅雀 | lit. you can net sparrows at the door (idiom); fig. completely deserted | Idiom |
| 喜怒无常 喜怒無常 | temperamental; moody | Idiom |
| 贱人 賤人 | slut; cheap person | Xiehouyu |
| 苦心经营 苦心經營 | to build up an enterprise through painstaking efforts | Xiehouyu |
| 一厢情愿 一廂情願 | one's own wishful thinking | Xiehouyu |
| 瞎说 瞎說 | to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about | Xiehouyu |
| 野种 野種 | (derog.) illegitimate child; bastard | Xiehouyu |
| 出格 出格 | to overstep the bounds of what is proper; to take sth too far; (of a measuring device) to go off the scale | Xiehouyu |
| 兴许 興許 | (coll.) perhaps | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 却是 卻是 | nevertheless; actually; the fact is ... | |
| 殿下 殿下 | Your Highness | |
| 娘娘 娘娘 | queen; empress; imperial concubine; Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West; mother; aunt | |
| 圣上 聖上 | Your Majesty | |
| 作画 作畫 | to paint | |
| 姨娘 姨娘 | maternal aunt; father's concubine (old) | |
| 岂能 豈能 | 岂: how? what? · 能: to be able; can, permitted to; ability | |
| 奴婢 奴婢 | slave servant | |
| 赴宴 赴宴 | to attend a banquet | |
| 岂不 豈不 | how couldn't...?; wouldn't it...? | |
| 刁蛮 刁蠻 | crafty and unruly | |
| 筹谋 籌謀 | to work out a strategy; to come up with a plan for | |
| 偏心 偏心 | partial; biased; prejudiced; eccentric | |
| 世伯 世伯 | uncle (affectionate name for a friend older than one's father); old friend | |
| 息怒 息怒 | to calm down; to quell one's anger | |
| 宴席 宴席 | banquet; feast | |
| 凄苦 悽苦 | bleak; miserable | |
| 善待 善待 | to treat well | |
| 雅兴 雅興 | refined and elegant attitude of mind | |
| 入主 入主 | to invade and take control of (a territory); to take the helm at (an organization); (of a company) to take control of (another company) | |
| 清君侧 清君側 | 清: clear, pure, clean; peaceful · 君: sovereign, monarch, ruler, chief, prince · 侧: side; incline, slant, lean | |
| 奸佞 奸佞 | crafty and fawning | |
| 朱砂 硃砂 | cinnabar; mercuric sulfide HgS; also written 硃砂|朱砂[zhu1 sha1] | |
| 活命 活命 | life; to survive; to save a life; to scrape a living | |
| 冥冥之中 冥冥之中 | in the unseen world of spirits; mysteriously and inexorably | |
| 原位 原位 | original position; (in) the same place; normal position; the place where one currently is; in situ | |
| 满腔 滿腔 | one's heart filled with; full of (joy) | |
| 替天行道 替天行道 | 替: change, replace, substitute for · 天: sky, heaven; god, celestial · 行: go; walk; move, travel; circulate · 道: path, road, street; method, way | |
| 吐露 吐露 | to tell; to disclose; to reveal | |
| 平素 平素 | usually; habitually; ordinarily; normally | |
| 结伴 結伴 | to go with sb; to form companionships | |
| 颇为 頗為 | rather; quite | |
| 素有 素有 | to have; to have always had | |
| 跋扈 跋扈 | domineering; bossy | |
| 不觉 不覺 | unconsciously | |
| 蹊跷 蹊蹺 | odd; queer; strange; fishy | |
| 闺阁 閨閣 | lady's chamber | |
| 等闲之辈 等閒之輩 | (in the negative) (not) to be trifled with |