Vocabulary: 大清相国
- equivalent to 就可以; can then (do sth); can immediately (do sth); (do sth) and that will suffice
- rigid; unwavering; unbendable; firm (hold on sth); tenacious
- good person; healthy person; person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle
- old age; very; eldest child in a family; leader of a group; boss; captain of a boat; leader of a criminal gang
- remaining evil element; surviving members (of an evil former regime); dregs (of a colonial administration)
- (idiom) to be on very good terms with each other; to hit it off with sb; to be passionately in love with each other; to carry on intimately with; (of trading, conflict etc) to be in full swing
- to let off; to give out
- to set up; to establish
- to be completely unrelated to one another (idiom); irrelevant
- easy to do; easy to manage
- to receive
- to celebrate a festival; after the celebrations (i.e. once the festival is over)
- judge's desk; complex legal case; contentious issue; koan (Zen Buddhism)
- innate talent; gift; flair; native resource; dowry
- bright; intelligent
- an outstanding talent (idiom); surpassing insight and acumen
- to appreciate; to recognize the worth of sth; appreciation
- deep and unmeasurable (idiom); unfathomable depths; incomprehensible; enigmatic and impossible to predict
- lit. to nurture a tiger invites calamity; fig. to indulge one's enemy is asking for trouble (idiom)
- intention; purpose
- just recently; just a moment ago
- worthwhile (often in rhetorical questions, implying not worthwhile); also written 犯得上[fan4 de5 shang4]
- as things really are; realistic
- that's all; nothing more
- (bound form) to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue
- public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)
- 省 shěng: 省 sheng3: to save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out; province; provincial capital; a ministry (of the Japanese government)省 xǐng: 省 xing3: (bound form) to scrutinize; (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct); (bound form) to come to realize; (bound form) to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders)
- complete; whole; totally; entirely
- to look for trouble
- deference; esteem; to admire
- lit. the rise and fall of the terrain (idiom); fig. the whole sequence of events; causes and effects
- Damn it!; damned; wretched
- to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems)
- to get the desired outcome; to win favor by fawning on sb; to curry favor with; a fruitful outcome to reward one's labor