Vocabulary: 大清相国
- (a feeling of) shame
- Bao Zheng (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty; modern day metaphor for an honest politician
- Hai Rui (1514-1587), Ming politician, famous for honesty and integrity
- crafty; slippery; slyboots
- crime; offense
- (idiom) between a rock and a hard place; in a dilemma
- unable to understand; unable to get over
- to feel agitated; to be troubled; to be annoyed; an upset or distraction
- aggrieved; dejected; (Tw, southern China) to be moved by a kind gesture etc; to feel gratified; to feel warm inside
- to pay a visit to; to see (sb)
- to be disappointing; to fail to live up to expectations
- lit. the east wind prevails over the west wind (idiom); fig. one side prevails over the other; progressive ideas prevail over reactionary ones
- to overwhelm; to overpower; overwhelming
- easterly wind; spring breeze; (fig.) revolutionary momentum; favorable circumstances
- to ask for sth and receive it; to try to obtain; to look for and obtain
- to gamble
- jewel; gem; treasure; precious
- to bid farewell; tricks of the trade; pithy mnemonic formula (e.g. Mao Zedong's 16-character mantra 十六字訣|十六字诀 on guerrilla warfare)
- wind direction; the way the wind is blowing; fig. trends (esp. unpredictable ones); how things are developing; course of events
- the most
- hard to fathom
- 荣 róng: 荣 rong2: glory; honor; thriving荣 Róng: 荣 Rong2: surname Rong
- the essentials
- to look face to face
- to share (a burden, a cost, a responsibility)
- to sigh; to heave a sigh
- to receive orders; to follow orders; to act under orders
- antique; curio
- to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc; vegetarian diet; study room; building; to give alms (to a monk)
- top-quality
- connoisseur; expert; veteran
- width; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures
- Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
- 荆 Jīng: 荆 Jing1: an early name for the state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2]; surname Jing荆 jīng: 荆 jing1: chaste tree or its berry (Vitex agnus-castus); (literary) cane or switch made from a chaste tree, used for punishment