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)
- outside; in addition; foreign; external
- disgrace; dishonor; to insult; to bring disgrace or humiliation to; to be indebted to; self-deprecating; Taiwan pr. [ru4]
- quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu : 3 you2] to "go on a trip")
- to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)
- able-bodied man (capable of fighting in a war)
- to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5]
- 要 yāo: 要 yao1: (bound form) to demand; to coerce要 yào: 要 yao4: to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) important
- 为 wéi: 为 wei2: as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice)为 wèi: 为 wei4: because of; for; to
- Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (reigned 1861-1908)
- to build; to construct
- to expose; to unmask; to ferret out; to disclose; disclosure
- Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (1835-1908), regent 1861-1908
- crime; offense
- to satirize; to mock; irony; satire; sarcasm
- she
- servile and bending the knee (idiom); fawning; bending and scraping to curry favor
- persistently; stubbornly; blindly
- to fawn on foreigners; to pander to foreign powers
- final; ultimate
- in a difficult situation; to cut a sorry figure; scoundrel! (derog.)
- and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast)
- to escape; to run away; to flee
- common; joint; jointly; together; collaborative
- to consult; to talk over; to discuss
- to decide; to determine; to make up one's mind; decision (CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4])
- to be responsible for; to be in charge of; to bear responsibility for; conscientious
- to construct; building; CL:個|个[ge4]
- range; scope; limit; extent; CL:個|个[ge4]
- inside; inner; internal; within; interior
- design; pattern
- 托 tūo: 托 tuo1: to hold up in one's hand; to support with one's palm; sth serving as a support: a prop, a rest (e.g. arm rest); (bound form) a shill; torr (unit of pressure)托 tūo: 托 tuo1: to trust; to entrust; to be entrusted with; to act as trustee
- peach
- to draw support from; with the help of
- letter; symbol; character; word; CL:個|个[ge4]; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
- homonym; homophone; harmonic (component of sound)
- to criticize; to find fault with; to denounce
- no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- to resist; resistance
- foreigner; (esp.) Westerner
- that very night; through the night; for several nights in a row
- to run away; to escape
- manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type
- to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])
- very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)