Vocabulary: 大清相国
- hawks and hounds; (fig.) running dogs; hired thugs
- to cover the whole (area); to be found throughout
- to brave death
- one's bosom (the seat of emotions); breast; broad-minded and open; to think about; to cherish
- righteousness; virtuous cause; a woman's marriage; main points of a piece of writing
- to be scared of dying
- to lobby; to campaign; to promote (an idea, a product); (old) to visit various rulers and promote one's political ideas (in the Warring States period)
- (used for abstract things) a good deal, a lot of
- throne room
- Gu Yanwu (1613-1682), late Ming and early Qing Confucian philosopher, linguist and historian, played a founding role in phonology of early Chinese, author of Rizhilu or Record of daily study 日知錄|日知录
- (of a nation) to be destroyed; to be subjugated; a fallen nation
- to live in peace and work happily (idiom)
- to endorse; to support
- to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out; to destroy; to exterminate
- to count numbers; to keep to one's word; to hold (i.e. to remain valid); to count (i.e. to be important)
- 王 wàng: 王 wang4: (literary) (of a monarch) to reign over (a kingdom)王 Wáng: 王 Wang2: surname Wang王 wáng: 王 wang2: king or monarch; best or strongest of its type; grand; great
- to make into; to change into; -ization; to ... -ize; to transform; abbr. for 化學|化学[hua4 xue2]
- outside; excluding
- 识 shí: 识 shi2: to know; knowledge; Taiwan pr. [shi4]识 zhì: 识 zhi4: to record; to write a footnote
- to injure; to devastate; to slaughter
- red in the face; extremely angry
- calm and composed (idiom)
- style of conversation
- (literary) ancient sage
- angry; indignant; wrath; ire
- to feel; to sense; to perceive
- disgrace; shame; humiliation
- to assemble; to gather (transitive or intransitive); (chemistry) poly-
- south; southern direction; (in China) southern regions, often referring to areas south of the Yangtze River
- like wildfire (idiom); unstoppable
- to sing sb's praises (mostly derogatory)
- as far as I know; to the best of my knowledge
- to witness; to see at first hand; to see with one's own eyes
- (idiom) difficult to carry on; unsustainable
- rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- to toss; to throw dice; Taiwan pr. [zhi2]
- to stain; to sully; to tarnish
- the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
- faithful official
- to admire; to revere; to look up to
- Mongol army; army of Yuan dynasty
- loyal and brave