Vocabulary
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| 君子远庖厨 君子遠庖廚 | lit. a nobleman stays clear of the kitchen (idiom, from Mencius); fig. a nobleman who has seen a living animal cannot bear to see it die, hence he keeps away from the kitchen | |
| 木棍 木棍 | wooden stick | |
| 温顺 溫順 | docile; meek | |
| 圣上 聖上 | Your Majesty | |
| 求情 求情 | to plea for leniency; to ask for a favor | |
| 虚言 虛言 | empty words; false words | |
| 天谴 天譴 | the wrath of Heaven; imperial displeasure | |
| 大嫂 大嫂 | older brother's wife; sister-in-law; elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) | |
| 冤魂 冤魂 | ghost of one who died unjustly; departed spirit demanding vengeance for grievances | |
| 岂能 豈能 | how could ...?; how can it be that ...? (rhetorical) | |
| 事到如今 事到如今 | as matters stand; things having reached this stage | |
| 心胸狭窄 心胸狹窄 | (idiom) narrow-minded; petty; ungenerous | |
| 昏头转向 昏頭轉向 | dizzy and disoriented; confused and at a loss (idiom) | |
| 朝臣 朝臣 | court councilor | |
| 有劳 有勞 | thank you for the trouble | |
| 知书达理 知書達理 | educated and well-balanced (idiom) | |
| 禀告 稟告 | to report (to one's superior) | |
| 出征 出征 | to go into battle; to campaign (military) | |
| 远交近攻 遠交近攻 | befriend distant states while attacking nearby ones (idiom); a classic stratagem from the Warring States | |
| 探子 探子 | intelligence gatherer; spy; detective; scout; sound (medical instrument); long and narrow probing and sampling utensil | |
| 故人 故人 | old friend; the deceased | |
| 尽忠 盡忠 | to display utter loyalty; to be loyal to the end | |
| 不计 不計 | to disregard; to take no account of | |
| 憔悴 憔悴 | wan and sallow; thin and pallid; haggard; (of plants) withered | |
| 不妥 不妥 | not proper; inappropriate | |
| 祖母 祖母 | father's mother; paternal grandmother | |
| 书房 書房 | study (room); studio | |
| 来往 來往 | to come and go; to have dealings with; to be in relation with | |
| 往后 往後 | from now on; in the future; time to come | |
| 便是 便是 | (emphasizes that sth is precisely or exactly as stated); precisely; exactly; even; if; just like; in the same way as | |
| 好不容易 好不容易 | with great difficulty; very difficult | |
| 枝 枝 | branch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc | |
| 再生 再生 | to be reborn; to regenerate; to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person); recycling; regeneration | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 宴会 宴會 | banquet; feast; dinner party | |
| 特意 特意 | specially; intentionally | |
| 种种 種種 | all kinds of | |
| 番 番 | foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort | |
| 凶手 兇手 | murderer; assassin | |
| 此事 此事 | this matter | |
| 欺负 欺負 | to bully | |
| 虽 雖 | although; even though | |
| 足以 足以 | sufficient to...; so much so that; so that | |
| 灭 滅 | to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out; to drown | |
| 天下 天下 | land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule | |
| 远离 遠離 | to be far from; to keep away from | |
| 当成 當成 | to consider as; to take to be | |
| 王子 王子 | prince; son of a king | |
| 一时 一時 | a period of time; a while; for a short while; temporary; momentary; at the same time | |
| 夺 奪 | to seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of; to compete or strive for; to force one's way through; to leave out; to lose |