Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- aside; to the side of
- lit. to fix one's eyes on sth like a tiger watching its prey (idiom); fig. to eye covetously
- (idiom) to take office; to assume a post
- changeable; changing; varied; full of changes
- to take the initiative; to do sth of one's own accord; spontaneous; active; opposite: passive 被動|被动[bei4 dong4]; drive (of gears and shafts etc)
- to fund; to put money into sth; to invest
- cherished desire; dream; craving; wish; aspiration
- to stay home alone (of married woman)
- (esp. of poetry, music) melancholy; sad and moving
- 过去 gùo qù: 过去 guo4 qu4: (in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by过去 gùo qu: 过去 guo4 qu5: (verb suffix)
- to make reprisals; to retaliate; revenge; retaliation
- just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that
- only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt
- improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all
- to let off; to let slip by; to let sb get away with sth
- to demote an official; a demoted official
- (one moment ...,) the next ...; trailing foot (in walking)
- to pardon; to absolve; to exempt from punishment
- treacherous; sinister
- vicious; malicious; savage
- stratagem; scheme
- to change unpredictably; unpredictable; erratic; treacherous
- (of a ruler) to order sb to commit suicide (in lieu of execution)
- Samantabhadra, the Buddhist Lord of Truth
- wave; (water) ripple
- (coll.) (of sth hard or rough) to press against some part of one's body causing discomfort (like a small stone in one's shoe); to hurt; to chafe
- engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking; CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4]
- (dialect) today; (literary) the present; this age
- to learn to read; able to read; literate
- to meet by chance
- to unblock; to dredge; to clear the way; to get things flowing; to facilitate; to mediate; to lobby; to explicate (a text)
- matters; arrangements
- Ghana
- Bali or Pali township in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan
- to move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky); to shift; to copy indiscriminately
- loss of goods; damage to goods; shrinkage
- hard to endure (hot weather, itchiness etc)
- 上官 Shàng guān: 上官 Shang4 guan1: two-character surname Shangguan上官 shàng guān: 上官 shang4 guan1: high-ranking official; superior
- to comment on; to discuss; to suggest