Vocabulary: 大清相国
- scholar; Confucian
- 冠 Guàn: 冠 Guan4: surname Guan冠 guān: 冠 guan1: hat; crown; crest; cap冠 guàn: 冠 guan4: to put on a hat; to be first; to dub
- hard; strong; solid; sure; assuredly; undoubtedly; of course; indeed; admittedly
- to drown; to indulge; addicted to; to spoil (a child)
- ordinary; mediocre
- to ponder; to speculate; to consider; to guess
- lit. breeze is still, waves are quiet (idiom); tranquil environment; all is quiet; a dead calm (at sea)
- see 海原縣|海原县[Hai3 yuan2 Xian4]
- from beginning to end; in its entirety; in accord with fact; literal
- lit. to pour dog's blood on (idiom); fig. torrent of abuse
- since then; henceforth
- to bear grudges
- to pull open; to pull apart; to space out; to increase
- 角 Jué: 角 Jue2: surname Jue角 jiǎo: 角 jiao3: angle; corner; horn; horn-shaped; unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime); CL:個|个[ge4]角 jué: 角 jue2: role (theater); to compete; ancient three legged wine vessel; third note of pentatonic scale
- porcelain bottle
- (transitive or intransitive) to break into pieces; to shatter; to crumble; broken; fragmentary; scattered; garrulous
- labor contractor; gangmaster
- back of the hand
- to look around (a room etc); (fig.) to take a comprehensive look at
- to shatter; to smash; to break into pieces
- disgraceful (of behavior that is unfilial, rebellious or otherwise in grave breach of the norms of society)
- to take out; to put out; to provide; to put forward (a proposal); to come up with (evidence)
- willingness; would rather (agree to X than Y)
- roadside stall
- ordinarily; in normal times; in peacetime
- among the people; popular; folk; non-governmental; involving people rather than governments
- insufficient; lacking; deficiency; not enough; inadequate; not worth; cannot; should not
- well-known for sth; to become well known; to make one's mark; to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc)
- Ling Xiangru (dates unknown, 3rd century BC), famous statesman of Zhao 趙國|赵国
- Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends; master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案[Di2 gong1 an4] translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高羅珮|高罗佩[Gao1 Luo2 pei4]
- Sima Guang (1019-1086), politician and historian of Northern Song, author of Comprehensive Mirror for aid in Government 資治通鑒|资治通鉴
- Yuan Haowen (1190-1257), famous poet Northern China during the Jin-Yuan transition
- (humble expr.) of humble talent and shallow learning (idiom); Pray forgive my ignorance,...
- (idiom) to be faithful to the ruler and love one's country
- to spare no pains or effort (idiom); to do one's utmost
- motive; intention; to be diligent or attentive; careful
- to petition for retirement (old); to ask for leave to withdraw; to ask to be excused
- to harbor evil intentions (idiom)
- to hear of; to hear about
- not to comply; not to go along with; not to let off easily; not to let sb get away with it
- to be quite varied; each one is different
- to roam far and wide; to drift with the wind
- (idiom) infamous pirate; (by extension) notorious bandit or robber