Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- to liberate; to emancipate; liberation; refers to the Communists' victory over the Nationalists in 1949; CL:次[ci4]
- first; primary; initial; original; at first; initially; originally
- information; news; message
- to change; to transform; shift; transformation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to penetrate deeply; thorough
- to reflect on; to ponder over
- on the one hand
- two-character surname Chunyu
- beams in roof; confused
- to secure a position; to take an official appointment
- to be strict with oneself
- politics; government affairs
- 将 jiàng: 将 jiang4: (bound form) a general; (literary) to command; to lead; (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)将 qiāng: 将 qiang1: to desire; to invite; to request将 jiāng: 将 jiang1: will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])
- canton; county; region
- to govern; to administer; to manage; to control; governance
- 得 de: 得 de5: structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc得 dé: 得 de2: to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finished得 dè: 得 de4: used in 得瑟[de4 se5]得 děi: 得 dei3: to have to; must; ought to; to need to
- public morals
- pure and honest; simple and kind
- notable deeds; exploits
- cannot; must not; should not
- desire; wish
- to entrust (to sb); to place (one's hope, energy etc) in; a thing in which one invests (one's hope, energy etc)
- among; in; included among these
- true; real
- 明朝 míng zhāo: 明朝 ming2 zhao1: tomorrow morning; the following morning明朝 Míng cháo: 明朝 Ming2 chao2: Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
- interior; inside (part, section); internal
- scramble for power and profit (idiom); power struggle
- regarding; as far as (sth) is concerned; with regard to
- a ruler and his ministers (old)
- (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 彈指之間|弹指之间[tan2 zhi3 zhi1 jian1])
- to exist; to be; existence
- sharp; intense; penetrating; pointed; acute (illness)
- (lit. and fig.) deep
- 系 xì: 系 xi4: to connect; to relate to; to tie up; to bind; to be (literary)系 xì: 系 xi4: system; department; faculty系 jì: 系 ji4: to tie; to fasten; to button up系 xì: 系 xi4: to connect; to arrest; to worry
- to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...
- (bound form) pillow; to rest one's head on (Taiwan pr. [zhen4])
- to adapt; to rearrange; to revise
- intent; intention; to intend
- to rest with; to lie in; to be due to (a certain attribute); (of a matter) to be determined by; to be up to (sb)
- current politics; political situation of the time