Vocabulary: 大清相国
- grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document); careless; rough; CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]
- Setaria viridis; vicious
- to exist; to deposit; to store; to keep; to survive
- to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out; to drown
- birds and animals; creature; beast (brutal person)
- words of the deceased; last words of the dying; wisdom of past sages
- a long talk
- midnight; in the middle of the night
- arrogant and willful
- lit. one's accomplishments overshadow the authority of the sovereign (idiom); fig. to be so influential that one rivals one's leader
- itself; oneself; one's own
- 大都 dà dū: 大都 da4 du1: for the most part; on the whole; metropolitan大都 Dà dū: 大都 Da4 du1: Dadu, capital of China during the Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368), modern day Beijing大都 dà dōu: 大都 da4 dou1: for the most part; on the whole; also pr. [da4 du1]
- Lü Buwei (?291-235 BC), merchant and politician of the State of Qin 秦國|秦国[Qin2 guo2], subsequent Qin Dynasty 秦代[Qin2 dai4] Chancellor, allegedly the father of Ying Zheng 嬴政[Ying2 Zheng4], who subsequently became the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]
- Ying Zheng (260-210 BC), personal name of the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]
- astute; perspicacious; farsighted
- to bend to a task and spare no effort (idiom); striving to the utmost
- until death puts an end (idiom); one's whole life; unto one's dying day
- memorial tablet
- to withdraw; to leave; to retreat; to pull out
- temple; ancestral shrine
- ambition; wild schemes; careerism
- authenticated; solid; firm; real; true
- to rebel; to revolt
- again and again; repeatedly
- to show; to reveal
- to rank (number 1, or third last etc); to be among (those who are in a particular group)
- all sides
- to antagonize people; to make an enemy of sb
- (military) meritorious service
- coarse; crude (in one's manner); boorish
- to accuse; to impeach; (in imperial China) to level charges against an official
- position; status; place; CL:個|个[ge4]
- (of pain or hardship) hard to bear
- in the blink of an eye
- to grow beyond the naivete of childhood; to be aware of what is going on in the world; (esp. of a child) sensible; thoughtful; intelligent
- same; ordinary; so-so; common; general; generally; in general
- to fear; to dread; foreboding
- to get out of the way; to step aside