Vocabulary: 大清相国
- Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang
- torrential
- with one's own hands; personally
- to keep a record of events; record; to start to form memories (after one's infancy)
- to hit; to strike; to attack; to crack down on sth; blow; (psychological) shock; percussion (music)
- dissident; alien; outsider; non-self; others
- selective listening; to hear what one wants to hear
- to make an investigative visit; to go and find out from the source
- old rules; example from the past; former practices
- the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar)
- incidental costs; sundries; extras
- communication; social intercourse
- one's own pocket
- strict; serious; solemn; dignified; to tidy up; to clean up; to purge; to adjust
- style of governing (of minor official); achievement in office
- who would have thought that; who would have expected that
- brush dipped in red ink (used in former times for writing official documents, grading papers etc)
- (coll.) to tamper with; to mess around with
- to bend over one's desk (writing, studying, taking a nap etc)
- manuscript of a book
- the Kangxi Dictionary, named after the Kangxi Emperor, who in 1710 ordered its compilation, containing 47,035 single-character entries
- vice-chairman (of an organization); vice president (of a company); deputy governor (of a bank)
- nightly
- to treat as; to regard as
- to expend a great deal of effort
- to feel attached to; to long for; to love
- lit. to hide the sky with one hand; to hide the truth from the masses
- an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved (idiom)
- more flourishing by the day
- not to tire of; not to object to
- peaceful death at a very advanced age