Vocabulary: 鄙视
- blood relationship; lineage; parentage
- to be corrupt; corruption; to embezzle
- to rot; to decay; to become corrupt
- principle; doctrine; CL:個|个[ge4]
- wild nature; unruliness
- clear and bright (of weather); straightforward; candid; open
- analogy; instance; for instance
- to lose one's temper; to fly into a rage; to throw a tantrum
- wait a moment
- very fast; at lightning speed; (coll.) razor-sharp
- Sparta
- (name) Helen or Hélène; see 海倫市|海伦市[Hai3 lun2 Shi4]
- to retrieve
- head; be headed by
- Ithaca, a Greek island; Ithaca, New York, location of Cornell University 康奈爾大學|康奈尔大学[Kang1 nai4 er3 Da4 xue2]
- prince; son of a king
- to capture (a fortress, city etc); to take by force
- temple
- to rape; to violate
- the way back; one's journey home
- sea and land
- both sides
- pincer attack; attack from two or more sides; converging attack; attack on a flank; fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks
- lit. torn body and crushed bones (idiom); fig. to die horribly; to sacrifice one's life
- to throw; to toss; to fling; to cast; to abandon
- beyond the topmost clouds (idiom); unimaginably far away
- the reason why
- (of competition or fighting) intense; fierce; (of pain) acute; (of an expression of opinion) impassioned; vehement; (of a course of action) drastic; extreme
- to be determined
- trees; greenery
- light; ray (CL:道[dao4]); bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
- (coll.) foot
- slight; light; trivial; to a small extent
- old lady
- to lead along; to pull (an animal on a tether); (bound form) to involve; to draw in
- to stroll; to go for a walk
- road as twisty as sheep's intestine (idiom); narrow and winding road; fig. complicated and tricky job
- bypath; trail; bribery as a means of achieving a goal; minor arts (Confucian reference to agriculture, medicine, divination, and other professions unworthy of a gentleman)
- (of a snake) to wriggle along; (of a river etc) to zigzag; to meander; to wind
- winding; (fig.) complicated
- precipitous