Vocabulary: 大清相国
- old man
- several days
- never (in the past); never did
- to make mischief; to play tricks
- lit. human face, beastly heart (idiom); fig. mild in appearance but malicious in nature
- to ratchet up; to raise (expectations etc); to increase (a quota, a position in the market etc); to up the ante; (computing) to encode
- to trap; to frame
- start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
- each and every family (idiom); every household
- (Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell; (fig.) cruel and tyrannical person
- debt; CL:筆|笔[bi3]
- estate; lands
- to work; to be employed
- handle
- field; farmland; cropland; plight; extent
- wheat flour; flour; heroin
- a thousand miles; a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers); a long distance
- sound of weeping
- young man; young guy; lad; youngster; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 孙子 sūn zi: 孙子 sun1 zi5: grandson; son's son孙子 Sūn zǐ: 孙子 Sun1 zi3: Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武[Sun1 Wu3] (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1]
- death by hanging; to hang oneself
- Heavens!; My goodness!
- pillar; CL:根[gen1]
- 咋 zhā: 咋 zha1: used in 咋呼[zha1 hu5]; Taiwan pr. [ze2]咋 zé: 咋 ze2: (literary) to bite; to gnaw咋 zǎ: 咋 za3: dialectal equivalent of 怎麼|怎么[zen3 me5]; Taiwan pr. [ze2]
- cannot figure out; to be unable to take a lighter view; to take things too hard; to be depressed; to fret over trifles
- 榆树 Yú shù: 榆树 Yu2 shu4: see 榆樹市|榆树市[Yu2 shu4 Shi4]榆树 yú shù: 榆树 yu2 shu4: elm
- slab; board; plank; CL:張|张[zhang1],塊|块[kuai4]
- to cry bitterly
- bottle stopper; plug; (gun) bolt; (grenade) pin
- vegetable knife; kitchen knife; cleaver; CL:把[ba3]
- 女人 nǚ rén: 女人 nu:3 ren2: woman女人 nǚ ren: 女人 nu:3 ren5: wife
- folly
- to bellow; to rave; to snarl
- domestic (animals); home reared
- stranger
- (idiom) to hack (sb) to pieces (punishment in former times)