Vocabulary: 白夜
- independent; independence; to stand alone
- 世 shì: 世 shi4: life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime; epoch; descendant; noble世 Shì: 世 Shi4: surname Shi
- to involve; implicated
- to oppose; to be against; to object to
- czar (loanword)
- to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution; revolutionary; to revolt (against sb or sth); to revolutionize (sth); (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命); CL:次[ci4]
- to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc); movable; flexible; liquid (capital etc); (volcanic, seismic, economic etc) activity; (outdoor etc) activity; event; (political) campaign; (military) maneuver (CL:項|项[xiang4]); to use personal influence, connections, bribes etc
- to be arrested; under arrest
- to have a bad reputation
- stronghold; fort; fortification
- preparation; to prepare; to intend; to be about to; reserve (fund)
- ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc
- to investigate; to delve; to probe; to enquire into; to look into
- virtue; morality; ethics; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- novel; full-length novel
- (literary) alunite (formerly used as a black dye); (literary) to dye black
- flower; earlobe; fig. item on both sides; classifier for flowers, clouds etc
- 奇 jī: 奇 ji1: odd (number)奇 qí: 奇 qi2: strange; odd; weird; wonderful; surprisingly; unusually
- Caltrop or puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris); to thatch (a roof)
- roof tile; abbr. for 瓦特[wa3 te4]
- to shelve; to set aside
- outer appearance; form; shape; formality; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to spread; to circulate; to hand down
- to sentence; to condemn
- to execute by firing squad; same as 槍斃|枪毙
- lifelike; true to life; distinctly; clearly
- 假 jià: 假 jia4: vacation假 gēi: 假 gei1: used in 假掰[gei1 bai1]假 jiǎ: 假 jia3: fake; false; artificial; to borrow; if; suppose假 jiǎ: 假 jia3: to borrow
- death penalty; capital punishment
- to deliver one's judgement; to give one's verdict
- to reduce penalty; shortened or commuted (judicial) sentence
- (to be done) by (a certain date); lasting (a certain time)
- four; 4
- Siberia
- forced labor; corvée; penal servitude
- camp; barracks; battalion; to build; to operate; to manage; to strive for
- career; life (way in which sb lives); period of one's life
- prison
- freed (from prison); to obtain release
- to require; to need; to want; necessity; need
- to serve in the army
- Mary (biblical name)
- honeymoon
- epilepsy
- 症 zhèng: 症 zheng4: disease; illness症 zhēng: 症 zheng1: abdominal tumor; bowel obstruction; (fig.) sticking point