Vocabulary: 大清相国
- to commit to memory
- pad; cushion; mat; to pad out; to fill a gap; to pay for sb; to advance (money)
- to stammer; to mumble; to speak haltingly
- Suzhou 蘇州|苏州[Su1 zhou1] and Hangzhou 杭州[Hang2 zhou1]
- woman from a respectable family; respectable woman
- to erect (a tent etc); to prick up (one's ears); to raise (one's eyebrows); to stick up (one's thumb); to turn up (one's collar); (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)
- shiver
- to suspect everyone; overly suspicious
- moody; gloomy
- (idiom) full of vitality; relaxed and alert
- half of the day; a long time; quite a while; midair; CL:個|个[ge4]
- listless; dispirited; washed out; also written 沒精打彩|没精打彩[mei2 jing1 da3 cai3]
- light reading
- down on one's luck; in straitened circumstances; disappointed; frustrated
- to ask a guest to stay; to detain a guest
- to feast one's eyes on (idiom)
- Please do as you wish!; You are welcome to do whatever you like!; Please make yourself at home.
- as they say, ...; as the saying goes, ...
- gold; golden (opportunity); prime (time)
- to get married
- to witness personally
- 家传 jiā chuán: 家传 jia1 chuan2: handed down in a family; family traditions家传 jiā zhuàn: 家传 jia1 zhuan4: family history (as a literary genre)
- a treasure
- pearl (CL:顆|颗[ke1],粒[li4]); (fig.) teardrop; tear
- jadeite; tree kingfisher
- Mi Fu (1051-1107), Song poet and calligrapher
- wattle-necked soft-shelled turtle (Palea steindachneri)
- passed on from ancestors; handed down from generation to generation
- to take away
- to bet; to make a bet; a wager
- lit. to return the jade annulus to Zhao (idiom); fig. to return something intact to its rightful owner