Vocabulary: 大清相国
- one's conduct and deeds
- system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution; CL:個|个[ge4]
- deserted; desolate; unfrequented; cold and cheerless; lonely; in quiet isolation
- to visit; to go around visiting (people or places)
- to follow sb closely (idiom); to keep close to
- quick witted in an emergency; able to react resourcefully
- resolute and upright in character; unyielding; staunch
- to attempt suicide; to court death
- to threaten; to blackmail
- to swing one's arms; to wash one's hands of sth
- 3-5 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)
- to dry in the air; (fig.) to cold-shoulder
- reverent and respectful; extremely deferential
- when
- comet or supernova viewed as evil portent; (fig.) sb or sth that brings disaster
- lit. to guard one's mouth like a closed bottle (idiom); tight-lipped; reticent; not breathing a word
- lit. to look forward and back (idiom); fig. to consider carefully; to weigh the pros and cons; fig. to be overcautious and indecisive
- to change color; to discolor; to change countenance; to become angry
- to serve as a stopgap; to make up a shortfall in the number of people
- back of the head
- mokugyo; wooden fish (percussion instrument)
- to retrieve
- to confiscate
- to allow in fresh air; to allow a prisoner out for exercise; to give out information
- (esp. of poetry, music) melancholy; sad and moving
- every word and action (idiom)
- (idiom) to feign civility
- sad; sadness; sorrow; grief
- to praise; to commend
- (idiom) to love the common people as one's own children (praise for a virtuous ruler)
- busy and unable to get away