Vocabulary
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| 花言巧语 花言巧語 | graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words; cheating wheedling; dishonest rhetoric | Idiom |
| 百年不遇 百年不遇 | only met with once every hundred years (drought, flood etc) | Idiom |
| 化干戈为玉帛 化干戈為玉帛 | lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom); fig. to turn hostility into friendship | Idiom |
| 明摆着 明擺著 | evident; clear; undoubted | Xiehouyu |
| 来不及 來不及 | there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late (to do sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 受不了 受不了 | unbearable; unable to endure; can't stand | Xiehouyu |
| 苦 苦 | bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly | Xiehouyu |
| 无法 無法 | unable; incapable | Xiehouyu |
| 未央 未央 | Weiyang District of Xi’an, Shaanxi | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 刘宋 劉宋 | Song of the Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479), with capital at Nanjing | Proper Noun |
| 尚书 尚書 | same as Book of History | Proper Noun |
| 孙 孫 | Sun (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 南安 南安 | Nan'an, county-level city in Quanzhou, Fujian | Proper Noun |
| 拓跋 拓跋 | branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people, founders of Wei 北魏 of the Northern Dynasties (386-534); also written 拓拔 | Proper Noun |
| 安平 安平 | Anping county in Hengshui, Hebei; Anping district of Tainan City, Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 安平县 安平縣 | Anping county in Hengshui, Hebei | Proper Noun |
| 凉州 涼州 | Liangzhou district of Wuwei city, Gansu | Proper Noun |
| 王明 王明 | Wang Ming (1904-1974), Soviet-trained Chinese communist, Comintern and Soviet stooge and left adventurist in the 1930s, fell out with Mao and moved to Soviet Union from 1956 | Proper Noun |
| 同心 同心 | Tongxin county in Wuzhong, Ningxia | Proper Noun |
| 一战 一戰 | World War I (1914-1918) | Proper Noun |
| 长孙 長孫 | two-character surname Zhangsun | Proper Noun |
| 江山 江山 | Jiangshan, county-level city in Quzhou, Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 魏 魏 | kingdom of Wei; surname | |
| 宋 宋 | Song dynasty; surname | |
| 意 意 | meaning, intent | |
| 侠 俠 | chivalrous person; knight-errant | |
| 开战 開戰 | to start a war; to make war; to battle against | |
| 腰带 腰帶 | belt | |
| 若是 若是 | if | |
| 单挑 單挑 | to pick; to choose; to fight a duel; Taiwan pr. [dan1 tiao1] | |
| 安危 安危 | safety and danger; safety | |
| 沙场 沙場 | sandpit; battleground; battlefield | |
| 威 威 | pomp, power; powerful; dominate | |
| 请安 請安 | to pay respects; to wish good health; in Qing times, a specific form of salutation | |
| 怎么能 怎麼能 | how could one | |
| 文书 文書 | document; official correspondence; secretary; secretariat | |
| 借此 藉此 | using this as a pretext; thereby | |
| 知 知 | know | |
| 有方 有方 | to do things right; to use the correct method | |
| 令爱 令愛 | (courteous) your daughter | |
| 首选 首選 | first choice; premium; to come first in the imperial examinations | |
| 定局 定局 | foregone conclusion; to be settled conclusively | |
| 为父 為父 | term used by a father to refer to himself when speaking to his child | |
| 别无选择 別無選擇 | to have no other choice | |
| 出兵 出兵 | to send troops | |
| 守卫 守衛 | to guard; to defend | |
| 闪失 閃失 | mishap; accident; accidental loss | |
| 摆布 擺布 | to arrange; to order about; to manipulate |