Vocabulary
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| 绞杀 絞殺 | to kill by strangling, hanging or garrotting; (fig.) to snuff out | |
| 臣妾 臣妾 | (literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female); (archaic) male and female slaves; subjects (of a ruler) | |
| 投壶 投壺 | ancient banquet game of throwing arrows into a pot, the winner determined by the number of arrows thrown in, and the loser required to drink as punishment | |
| 怎敢 怎敢 | how dare | |
| 不觉 不覺 | unconsciously | |
| 情郎 情郎 | boyfriend; paramour (of a woman) | |
| 服侍 服侍 | to attend to; to care for (patients etc); to look after; to wait upon; to serve; also written 伏侍, see also | |
| 旨意 旨意 | decree | |
| 忧心 憂心 | concerned; worried; disturbed; anxious | |
| 姑母 姑母 | father's sister; paternal aunt | |
| 余孽 餘孽 | remaining evil element; surviving members (of an evil former regime); dregs (of a colonial administration) | |
| 行刑 行刑 | to carry out a (death) sentence; execution | |
| 捉拿 捉拿 | to arrest; to catch a criminal | |
| 赐给 賜給 | to bestow; to give | |
| 善罢甘休 善罷甘休 | (idiom) to let the matter rest; to just let it go; to take it lying down (usu. used in the negative) | |
| 好端端 好端端 | perfectly all right; without rhyme or reason | |
| 嫁人 嫁人 | (of a woman) to get married; to take a husband | |
| 安葬 安葬 | to bury (the dead) | |
| 蠕蠕 蠕蠕 | wiggling; squirming | |
| 奉命 奉命 | by order | |
| 临终 臨終 | approaching one's end; with one foot in the grave | |
| 堂堂 堂堂 | grand; magnificent; stately; majestic appearance | |
| 大祸 大禍 | disaster; calamity | |
| 违抗 違抗 | to disobey | |
| 所料 所料 | one's expectation; what one anticipates | |
| 叛贼 叛賊 | renegade; traitor | |
| 启奏 啟奏 | report to the emperor | |
| 兵权 兵權 | military leadership; military power | |
| 惊扰 驚擾 | to alarm; to agitate | |
| 感念 感念 | to recall fondly; to remember with emotion | |
| 战功 戰功 | outstanding military service | |
| 欺君罔上 欺君罔上 | to dupe one's sovereign | |
| 御花园 御花園 | imperial garden | |
| 抚琴 撫琴 | to play the zither; classical variant of | |
| 卑贱 卑賤 | lowly; mean and low | |
| 燕窝 燕窩 | edible bird's nest | |
| 迎娶 迎娶 | (of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding ceremony; (fig.) to take as one's wife; to marry (a woman) | |
| 灭门 滅門 | to exterminate an entire family | |
| 甘愿 甘願 | willingly | |
| 饶了 饒了 | to spare; to forgive | |
| 刮目相看 刮目相看 | to have a whole new level of respect for sb or sth; to sit up and take notice (of sb's improved performance etc) | |
| 惹怒 惹怒 | to provoke anger | |
| 格杀勿论 格殺勿論 | 格: pattern, standard, form; style · 杀: kill, slaughter, murder; hurt · 勿: must not, do not; without, never · 论: debate; discuss; discourse | |
| 陪嫁 陪嫁 | dowry | |
| 另眼相看 另眼相看 | to treat sb favorably; to view in a new light | |
| 划痕 劃痕 | a scratch | |
| 绝笔 絕筆 | words written on one’s deathbed; an artist's final work; swansong | |
| 谢恩 謝恩 | thank for grace | |
| 充军 充軍 | to banish (to an army post, as a punishment) | |
| 罪责 罪責 | guilt |