Vocabulary: 第七回 费仲计废姜皇后
from 封神演义
- 差矣x1 | Chapter Rank #1407
- 势成骑虎x1 | Chapter Rank #1408if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway
- 宁可x1 | Chapter Rank #1409preferably; one would prefer to...(or not to...); would rather; (would) be better to; (to pick) the lesser of two evils
- 合x1 | Chapter Rank #1410to close; to join; to fit; to be equal to; whole; together; round (in battle); conjunction (astronomy); 1st note of pentatonic scale100 ml; one-tenth of a peck; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗
- 出乎x1 | Chapter Rank #1411due to; to stem from; to go beyond (also fig. beyond reason, expectations etc); to go against (expectations)
- 无奈x1 | Chapter Rank #1412to have no alternative; frustrated; exasperated; helpless; (conjunction) but unfortunately
- 徇情x1 | Chapter Rank #1413to act out of personal considerations; to show partiality
- 掩x1 | Chapter Rank #1414to cover up; to conceal; to close (a door, book etc); (coll.) to get (one's fingers etc) caught when closing a door or lid; (literary) to launch a surprise attack
- 讳x1 | Chapter Rank #1415to avoid mentioning; taboo word; name of deceased emperor or superior
- 此言x1 | Chapter Rank #1416
- 魂不附体x1 | Chapter Rank #1417lit. body and soul separated (idiom); fig. scared out of one's wits; beside oneself
- 倒x1 | Chapter Rank #1418to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profitto invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
- 尘埃x1 | Chapter Rank #1419dust
- 情景x1 | Chapter Rank #1420scene; spectacle; circumstances; situation
- 贤德x1 | Chapter Rank #1421
- 前身x1 | Chapter Rank #1422forerunner; predecessor; precursor; previous incarnation (Buddhism); jacket front
- 作何x1 | Chapter Rank #1423
- 孽x2 | Chapter Rank #546son born of a concubine; disaster; sin; evil
- 横x1 | Chapter Rank #1424horizontal; across; crosswise; horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters); to place (sth) flat (on a surface); to cross (a river, etc); in a jumble; chaotic; (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable; violentharsh and unreasonable; unexpected
- 慰x1 | Chapter Rank #1425to comfort; to console; to reassure
- 贤后x1 | Chapter Rank #1426
- 呆x1 | Chapter Rank #1427foolish; stupid; expressionless; blank
- 心毒x1 | Chapter Rank #1428cruel; vicious
- 听信x1 | Chapter Rank #1429to listen to information; to get the news; to believe what one hears
- 死地x1 | Chapter Rank #1430
- 何忍x1 | Chapter Rank #1431
- 血泪x1 | Chapter Rank #1432tears of blood (symbol of extreme suffering); blood and tears
- 染x1 | Chapter Rank #1433to dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc); to contaminate; to add color washes to a painting
- 面x1 | Chapter Rank #1434face; side; surface; aspect; top; classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etcflour; noodles; (of food) soft (not crunchy); (slang) (of a person) ineffectual; spineless
- 辞x1 | Chapter Rank #1435to resign; to dismiss; to decline; (literary) to take leave; (archaic poetic genre) ballad
- 只是x1 | Chapter Rank #1436merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however
- 盟x1 | Chapter Rank #1437oath; pledge; union; to ally; league, a subdivision corresponding to prefecture in Inner Mongolia
- 瞑目x1 | Chapter Rank #1438to close one's eyes; (fig.) to be contented at the time of one's death (Dying without closing one's eyes would signify having unresolved grievances.)
- 烙x2 | Chapter Rank #547to brand; to iron; to bake (in a pan)used in 炮烙[pao2 luo4]
- 其二x1 | Chapter Rank #1439secondly; the other (usu. of two); the second
- 手x1 | Chapter Rank #1440hand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work; person skilled in certain types of work; personal(ly); convenient; classifier for skill; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- 心如铁石x1 | Chapter Rank #1441
- 坚x1 | Chapter Rank #1442strong; solid; firm; unyielding; resolute
- 钢x1 | Chapter Rank #1443steel
- 岂肯x1 | Chapter Rank #1444
- 诬陷x1 | Chapter Rank #1445to entrap; to frame; to plant false evidence against sb
- 不由分说x1 | Chapter Rank #1446to allow no explanation
- 两手x1 | Chapter Rank #1447one's two hands; two prongs (of a strategy); both aspects, eventualities etc; skills; expertise
- 筋x1 | Chapter Rank #1448muscle; tendon; veins visible under the skin; sth resembling tendons or veins (e.g. fiber in a vegetable)
- 断x1 | Chapter Rank #1449to break; to snap; to cut off; to give up or abstain from sth; to judge; (usu. used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly
- 皮x1 | Chapter Rank #1450skin; peel; rind; outer layer; leather; hide; fur; cover; wrapping; outer covering; (of food) no longer crisp; soggy; (coll.) naughty; mischievous; pico- (10⁻¹²)surname Pi
- 焦x1 | Chapter Rank #1451burnt; scorched; charred; worried; anxious; coke; joule (abbr. for 焦耳[jiao1 er3])surname Jiao
- 骨x1 | Chapter Rank #1452boneused in 骨碌碌[gu1 lu4 lu4]; used in 骨碌[gu1 lu5]; used in 骨朵[gu1 duo5]
- 枯x1 | Chapter Rank #1453(of plants) withered; (of wells, rivers etc) dried up; (bound form) dull; boring; (bound form) residue of pressed oilseeds
- 烟臭x1 | Chapter Rank #1454