Vocabulary: 封神演义
- conservative; to guard; to keep
- urgent task; pressing matter
- intelligence gatherer; spy; detective; scout; sound (medical instrument); long and narrow probing and sampling utensil
- leap
- grand; imposing; magnificent; majestic
- vanguard; front line; a forward (sports)
- 朱雀 Zhū què: 朱雀 Zhu1 que4: (ancient Chinese astronomy) Zhuque, the Vermilion Bird (the southern quadrant of the sky); (Daoism) the guardian deity of the south朱雀 zhū què: 朱雀 zhu1 que4: rosefinch (genus Carpodacus)
- to meet head-on; face-to-face; directly
- horizontal setting (printing)
- pike; lance; CL:把[ba3],柄[bing3]
- order; sequence; one after another
- circumstances; situation; terrain; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to flutter; to dance in the breeze
- Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky); (in Daoism) God of the north sky
- to ignite; to kindle
- (of an atmosphere etc) solemn; grave; serious; (of a manner etc) earnest; severe; exacting; to strictly enforce
- No wonder!; not surprising
- formidable opponent
- to form a clique
- in order to avoid; so as not to
- people are in a terrible situation (idiom)
- lunatic ravings; nonsense
- lit. to strike a stone with egg (idiom); to attempt the impossible; to invite disaster by overreaching oneself
- (used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ...
- frontier; border
- to obstinately persist in going about things the wrong way (idiom)
- male villager; (derog.) male peasant
- big and strong; formidable; powerful
- hobgoblin; bogey; phantom
- demon; fiend