Vocabulary: 过得刚好
- good faith; devotion; loyalty; dedication
- effectiveness; positive effect; to serve (in some capacity)
- to set up; to establish
- great merit; great service
- Great Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- to include (in a list etc); to assign (to a class, a work unit etc)
- turncoat official
- traitor; turncoat; rebel; renegade; insurgent
- hard to endure (hot weather, itchiness etc)
- (bound form) to bear; to endure; to withstand
- poor and lowly
- 安 ān: 安 an1: (bound form) calm; peaceful; to calm; to set at ease; safe; secure; in good health; content; satisfied (as in 安於|安于[an1 yu2]); to place (sb) in a suitable position (job); to install; to fix; to fit; to bring (a charge against sb); to harbor (certain intentions); ampere (abbr. for 安培[an1 pei2])安 ān: 安 An1: surname An
- hardworking; assiduous
- laid back; leisurely; (of resources: workers, funds etc) unused; idle
- to suffer; fig. reluctantly
- to itch; to tickle
- 士 Shì: 士 Shi4: surname Shi士 shì: 士 shi4: member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor; honorific; soldier; noncommissioned officer; specialist worker
- (literary) to close the book (after a reading session)
- long sigh; deep sigh
- Su Shi (1037-1101), aka Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡[Su1 Dong1 po1], Song dynasty writer, calligrapher and public official, one of the Three Su's 三蘇|三苏[San1 Su1] and one of the Eight Giants of Tang and Song Prose 唐宋八大家[Tang2 Song4 Ba1 Da4 jia1]
- to do something to sb; to deal with; to cope; how?; to no avail
- then and now; ancient and modern
- (idiom) very few
- to be located at; to be situated in
- 万里 Wàn Lǐ: 万里 Wan4 Li3: Wan Li (1916-2015), PRC politician万里 wàn lǐ: 万里 wan4 li3: far away; thousands of miles; 10,000 li万里 Wàn lǐ: 万里 Wan4 li3: Wanli township in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan
- romance; beautiful scenery; small or petty (of talk etc)
- horse's hoof; horseshoe; Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis or E. congesta)
- verse
- Jianwen Emperor, reign name of second Ming Emperor Zhu Yunwen 朱允炆[Zhu1 Yun3 wen2] (1377-1402), reigned 1398-1402
- to enter monastic life; to become a monk or nun
- (of a nation) to be destroyed; to be subjugated; a fallen nation
- to wring one's hands (literally wring one's wrists)
- lamentable; sad(ly)
- reign name of second Ming emperor, reigned 1398-1402, deposed in 1402
- ending up as; leading to; resulting in; in total
- to burn
- to run out; to escape
- Zheng He (1371-1433), famous early Ming dynasty admiral and explorer
- classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc
- to succeed to the throne
- terrible mess; shambles
- 臣 Chén: 臣 Chen2: surname Chen臣 chén: 臣 chen2: state official or subject in dynastic China; I, your servant (used in addressing the sovereign); Kangxi radical 131