Vocabulary: 封神演义
- free and at leisure (idiom); unfettered; outside the reach of the law (of criminal); at large
- lit. warp and weft in weaving; vertically and horizontal; length and breadth; criss-crossed; able to move unhindered; abbr. for 合縱連橫|合纵连横[He2 zong4 Lian2 heng2], School of Diplomacy during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
- to fish (with line and hook); to angle; (fig.) to entrap; (Tw) to repeatedly nod one's head while dozing
- (literary) fishermen and woodcutters (used to refer to rustic people or a simple, pastoral lifestyle)
- question and answer
- (literary) why?; for what reason?
- ancient measuring vessel; fifty liters; dry measure for grain equal to five dou 五斗 (before Tang, ten pecks)
- (literary) pearl; gem; (literary) (fig.) eloquent phrase; pearl of wisdom
- surname Peng
- partner; companion; comrade; associate; to accompany
- tree trunk; stump (tree root); a plant; classifier for trees or plants; strain (biology); to involve others (in shady business)
- knowledge and experience
- to commend; to praise
- fishing rod; CL:根[gen1]
- pair of antithetical phrases; antithetical couplet
- to beat (sb or sth) into (a certain condition); to denounce (sb) as (sth contemptible)
- to devour
- automatic; voluntarily
- carp
- to catch fish; to fish
- to take possession of; to get hold of
- clumsy and stupid
- clear sky; fig. high official position; noble
- feather screen; to screen; to shade; cataract
- long term
- mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body; stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick
- aristocracy
- features, face (esp. derogatorily); look; appearance; countenance
- (optics) inverted image
- monkey; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- not very; not particularly
- a good deal of; quite a lot
- woodman; woodcutter
- happy; cheerful
- on the street; in town
- to provoke; to stir up; to incite
- carriage
- Imperial bodyguard