- Isaac (name)
- knight; Sir; (loanword) jazz
- royal; imperial household
- president of a club, committee etc
- physics
- scientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy); (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "power corrupts")
- gravity
- Francis (name)
- the earliest ancestor; originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc)
- false appearance; facade
- to sum up; to summarize; to conclude from facts; induction (method of deduction in logic)
- Bonaparte (name); Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
- Corsica (Island located west of Italy and southeast of France)
- fog; mist; CL:場|场[chang2],陣|阵[zhen4]
- coup d'état
- to seize; to capture; to wrest control of
- regime; political power
- Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris, France)
- to crown; coronation
- France
- legal code; statute
- civil code
- surveyor's pole; post (used for a landmark); (fig.) goal; model; benchmark
- command; commander-in-chief
- 率 lǜ: 率 lu:4: (bound form) ratio; rate; proportion率 shuài: 率 shuai4: to lead; to command; rash; hasty; frank; straightforward; generally; usually
- French army
- to sweep away; to sweep across
- to attack; to assault; to go on the offensive; attack; assault; offense (sports)
- to lose; to suffer defeat
- to banish; to deport; to send into exile; to be marooned
- lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom); fig. to regroup and come back even stronger; to make a comeback
- dynasty
- Waterloo (Belgium); Battle of Waterloo (1815); (fig.) a defeat
- (military) to meet for a decisive battle; (military) battle; (fig.) large-scale concerted effort
- once more; once again; one more time
- to exile; to banish; to deport; to float (logs) downstream
- island; CL:個|个[ge4],座[zuo4]
- to die of illness
- Rome, capital of Italy
- ancient Rome