Vocabulary: 封神演义
- Jiang Wen (1963-), sixth generation Chinese movie director
- (bound form) shining; glowing; lustrous
- error; false; to extort
- to hate; hatred; enmity; hostility
- code word; coded language; to communicate in private
- after drinking; under the influence of alcohol
- lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love; fascinated; captivated
- lit. as if drunk and stupefied (idiom); intoxicated by sth; obsessed with; mad about sth; also written 如癡如醉|如痴如醉[ru2 chi1 ru2 zui4]
- height (of person); length of clothing from shoulders to bottom (tailor or dressmaker's measure)
- measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m); to measure; husband; polite appellation for an older male
- 膀 bǎng: 膀 bang3: upper arm; wing膀 páng: 膀 pang2: used in 膀胱[pang2 guang1]膀 pāng: 膀 pang1: puffed (swollen)膀 bàng: 膀 bang4: used in 吊膀子[diao4 bang4 zi5]
- rich; wide; broad
- 过去 gùo qu: 过去 guo4 qu5: (verb suffix)过去 gùo qù: 过去 guo4 qu4: (in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by
- (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official)
- a few years; several years; how many years?
- off the stage; in the audience
- a period of time in the recent past; (indicating a period of time up to the present) all along; the whole time
- to lift sth up; to elevate sb; to honor sb (with compliments, gifts, promotions etc); to show great regard; to speak highly; Taiwan pr. [tai2 ju3]
- just now; a moment ago (often used in the early vernacular)
- 闷 mèn: 闷 men4: bored; depressed; melancholy; sealed; airtight; tightly closed闷 mēn: 闷 men1: stuffy; shut indoors; to smother; to cover tightly
- to cause a loss of (decorum, dignity etc) (used in fixed expressions)
- to shun; to avoid (sb); to skirt; to evade (an issue); to step back; to withdraw; to recuse (a judge etc)
- please forgive me
- to make an effort; to try hard; to strive; hard-working; conscientious
- lit. the kindness of recognizing sb's worth and employing him (idiom); patronage; protection
- lit. to jump into scalding water and plunge into raging fire (idiom); fig. to brave any danger; to go to any lengths (for a noble cause)
- ten thousand deaths will not prevent me (idiom); ready to risk life and limb to help out
- lit. to have no strategy to apply (idiom); fig. to be out of ideas; at one's wit's end
- who would have thought; unexpectedly
- on the body; at hand; among
- to add; to attach; to be close to; to be attached
- you must not; Please don't...; be sure not to; on no account (do it)
- cicada
- person of foresight
- variable; changeable; fickle; impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya); ghost taking away the soul after death; to pass away; to die
- to level the land; level ground; plain
- billows; great waves (fig. of a story with great momentum)