Vocabulary: 繁花
- archaic
- to waken
- to serve; to wait upon
- to burn incense
- to bathe; to take a bath; (fig.) to be bathed in; to be immersed in
- bow string; string of musical instrument; watchspring; chord (segment of curve); hypotenuse; CL:根[gen1]
- governor-general; viceroy; governor
- (idiom) nothing more than this; that's all; no big deal; not very impressive
- ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about
- to have tender, protective feelings for the fairer sex (idiom)
- 造化 zào huà: 造化 zao4 hua4: (literary) Nature; the Creator造化 zào hua: 造化 zao4 hua5: good luck
- ferocious; fierce; violent; brave; suddenly; abrupt; (slang) awesome
- Zhang Fei (168-221), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, famous as fearsome fighter and lover of wine
- 阮 Ruǎn: 阮 Ruan3: surname Ruan; small state during the Shang Dynasty (1600–1046 BC) located in the southeast of present-day Gansu Province阮 ruǎn: 阮 ruan3: ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute
- 氏 zhī: 氏 zhi1: used in 月氏[Yue4 zhi1]; used in 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1]氏 shì: 氏 shi4: (bound form) family name; surname (as in 王氏[Wang2 shi4] "the Wang clan"); (bound form) maiden name; née (as in 李王氏[Li3 Wang2 shi4] "Mrs. Li, née Wang"); (bound form) honorific suffix added to the surname or full name of a notable person, esp. historical or scholarly figures
- (idiom) to adopt a blitzkrieg strategy; to resolve sth in the shortest time possible
- to pull up; to pull out; to draw out by suction; to select; to pick; to stand out (above level); to surpass; to seize
- weeping willow
- female charms; femininity
- dog meat
- best quality; item of the highest quality; (slang) outrageous; annoying in the extreme; gross; person with these qualities
- boundary; state; realm
- underpants; panties; briefs
- index (loanword)
- to besiege; to beleaguer; to attack from all sides; to jointly speak or write against sb
- to discredit; to defame; to smear sb's name; to bring shame upon (oneself or one's family etc); to blacken (e.g. commando's face for camouflage); to black out or obliterate (e.g. censored words)
- original text
- lit. all the stars cup themselves around the moon (idiom, from Analects); fig. to view sb as core figure; to group around a revered leader; to revolve around sb
- to taunt; to ridicule; to jeer at; to treat coldly; to abandon
- to consider; to give serious consideration to sth; consideration
- ample; sufficient; adequate; full; fully; to the full
- to control; to restrict; to moderate; to temper; moderation; sobriety; to administer
- tradition; traditional
- characteristic; trait; feature