Vocabulary: 封神演义
- chest; heart; mind
- pit; burrow; crypt
- cavern; cave
- dark; hell; netherworld; hades
- predestined lifespan
- the correct path; the right way (Buddhism)
- to reside; to dwell; to live in a place; resident in
- vast (of ocean); boundless
- married man; husband (as a social role)
- to plant
- earth; soil; mud; clay
- tiles and bricks
- continuous; unending
- tired; exhausted; worn out; to toil
- to be alarmed; to be frightened
- to run away to; to flee
- to rely on power
- the old and the young
- lit. their number cannot be counted (idiom); fig. countless; innumerable
- runaway
- to supervise; to oversee; to inspect
- to return home
- rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- workplace overseer; foreman
- one's mind
- superb; first-rate; (of officials in imperial times) the highest rank
- high-ranking officials in the court of a Chinese emperor
- honor; glory
- to take up an official post
- to think hard; bitter thoughts; to pour out one's sufferings
- to be at an impasse (idiom); in a tight spot; at the end of one's rope; desperate
- honest and upright official (traditional)
- at any time; at all times; at the right time; whenever necessary