Vocabulary: 大太监李莲英全传:从宫廷太监到封建社会最后的权臣 (传记馆)
- to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely
- so as not to; so as to avoid
- (military) officers and soldiers; officers and men; (old) government troops
- to continue; to proceed with; to go on with
- common people
- not long (after); before too long; soon; soon after
- to kill
- daughter
- 雕 diāo: 雕 diao1: to carve; to engrave; shrewd; bird of prey雕 diāo: 雕 diao1: bird of prey
- katydid; long-horned grasshopper
- Chinese cabbage, esp. napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis); sometimes used to refer to bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis); CL:棵[ke1]
- with this; thereby; thus; because of this
- to exchange; to swap; to switch (telecom); commutative (math); to commute
- old friend; (slang) period; menstruation
- cunning; crafty; wily old fox
- treasure; CL:件[jian4]
- to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely
- among the people; popular; folk; non-governmental; involving people rather than governments
- to revere; highly esteemed
- (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this
- stealthily; secretly; covertly; furtively; on the sly
- to bribe
- under one's control or administration; subordinates; (money etc) on hand; sb's financial means; when taking action
- dead body; corpse (Note: In expressions like 屍首分離|尸首分离[shi1 shou5 fen1 li2] or 屍首異處|尸首异处[shi1 shou5 yi4 chu4], decapitation is implied.)
- 埋 mán: 埋 man2: used in 埋怨[man2 yuan4]埋 mái: 埋 mai2: to bury
- outside of a city
- public cemetery
- 供 gòng: 供 gong4: to lay (sacrificial offerings); (bound form) offerings; to confess (Taiwan pr. [gong1]); confession; statement (Taiwan pr. [gong1])供 gōng: 供 gong1: to provide; to supply; to be for (the use or convenience of)
- to revere; to admire
- to commemorate; to honor the memory of; memento; keepsake; souvenir
- to love one's country; patriotic
- heart; mind; intention; center; core; CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
- again; once more; re-
- see 蓮池區|莲池区[Lian2 chi2 Qu1]
- academy of classical learning (Tang Dynasty - Qing Dynasty)
- rest; to rest
- day; sky; heaven
- apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- generally speaking; to sum up; in summary; in short
- mood; frame of mind
- next day; the morrow
- to hurry to (somewhere)
- 当时 dàng shí: 当时 dang4 shi2: immediately; right then当时 dāng shí: 当时 dang1 shi2: then; at that time