Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- feather; plumage; plume
- black horse; jet steed; good horse; legendary black dragon
- 商 Shāng: 商 Shang1: Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC); surname Shang商 shāng: 商 shang1: commerce; merchant; dealer; to consult; 2nd note in pentatonic scale; quotient (as in 智商[zhi4 shang1], intelligence quotient)
- wall (CL:面[mian4],堵[du3]); (slang) to block (a website) (usu. in the passive: 被牆|被墙[bei4 qiang2])
- texture; background (texture); grain; quality; character; disposition
- History of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, twenty second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed under Toktoghan 脫脫|脱脱[Tuo1 tuo1] in 1345 during the Yuan Dynasty 元[Yuan2], 135 scrolls
- (bound form) government office
- guard of honor
- imperial chariot
- decoration; ornament; to decorate; to adorn; to hide; to conceal (a fault); excuse (to hide a fault); to play a role (in opera); to impersonate
- board and lodging; room and board
- to entertain; to amuse; entertainment; recreation; amusement; hobby; fun; joy
- civil and military officials
- even; so much so that
- to fawn on; to flatter; to ingratiate oneself; flattery
- lit. things are not separated according to their size (idiom); fig. to deal with any matter, regardless of its importance
- to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking; at the cost of a lot of effort
- (idiom) to spare no effort; to do one's utmost
- ostentation; extravagance
- (idiom) to waste both manpower and resources
- degree; level; extent
- surface; face; outside; appearance
- many and varied; of many different kinds
- to choose; to select
- to try to find; to look for; to call on sb; to find; to seek; to return; to give change
- not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient; less than
- almost; nearly
- prisoner; convict
- meaning; implication; flavor; overtone; to mean; to imply; (Tw) to get a sense of
- beyond belief; preposterous; absurd; intemperate; dissipated
- without any sense of shame; unembarrassed; shameless
- easy to understand
- to have as a feature or characteristic; to have an element of (confidence, sweetness, malevolence etc); to carry (a pathogen, connotation etc)
- dense; thick (fog, clouds etc); to have a strong interest in; deep; fully saturated (color)
- popular song; folk tune; ballad
- folk song; mountain song
- division of China during earliest dynasties; fig. ancient China; Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands