Vocabulary: 大清相国
- to start off before the others; to precede; to proceed in advance
- long time off; time that will never come
- equitable; fair
- colleague; co-worker
- to overturn; to collapse; to lean; to tend; to incline; to pour out
- to fail to grasp the main points
- advantageous; favorable
- to be born with; to be gifted with
- to disobey; to violate; to separate; to go against
- power; authority
- to cover up; to hide; to conceal
- lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch; back to square one; to start of on a new path
- bureaucrat; official
- to cast (pour metal into a mold)
- consumables; to consume raw materials
- artificial; manpower; manual work
- coppersmith
- mixed; miscellaneous; various; to mix
- 锉 cùo: 锉 cuo4: (literary) to fracture (a bone); (literary) to cut; to hack锉 cùo: 锉 cuo4: file (tool used for smoothing); rasp; to file
- (of a dress etc) border, edging
- number of people
- to make uniform; to even up; to make good a deficiency
- 砌 qì: 砌 qi4: to build by laying bricks or stones砌 qiè: 砌 qie4: used in 砌末[qie4 mo5]
- to gather around the stove; (Tw) to come together for a family dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve
- to roll; to boil
- to ladle out; to scoop up
- pig iron; foundry iron
- pot; pan; wok; cauldron; pot-shaped thing; CL:口[kou3],隻|只[zhi1]
- working procedure; process
- déjà vu (the experience of seeing exactly the same situation a second time); seemingly familiar; apparently already acquainted
- dusk; evening; nightfall
- in the newspaper
- to string together; to skewer; to connect wrongly; to gang up; to rove; string; bunch; skewer; classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of; to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus); to move across