Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- good; beautiful
- 英 Yīng: 英 Ying1: United Kingdom; British; England; English; abbr. for 英國|英国[Ying1 guo2]英 yīng: 英 ying1: hero; outstanding; excellent; (literary) flower; blossom
- miscellany of writing from the Western Han (aka Former Han)
- to spur on; to urge on; to encourage sb (e.g. to make progress)
- 雷 Léi: 雷 Lei2: surname Lei雷 léi: 雷 lei2: thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[di4 lei2] land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)
- wheel
- to accelerate; to speed up; to expedite
- Wu Cheng'en (1500-1582), author (or compiler) of novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记
- "Journey to the West", a Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en 吳承恩|吴承恩[Wu2 Cheng2 en1], one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, also known as "Pilgrimage to the West" or "Monkey"
- to have heard what was said
- Zuo Zhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo's Annals or Mr Zuo's commentary on 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明[Zuo3 Qiu1 ming2]
- 僖 Xī: 僖 Xi1: surname Xi僖 xī: 僖 xi1: cautious; merry; joyful
- see 南陵縣|南陵县[Nan2 ling2 Xian4]
- 皋 gāo: 皋 gao1: bank; marsh皋 gāo: 皋 gao1: high riverbank
- grave; tomb; mausoleum
- 辟 bì: 辟 bi4: (literary) king; monarch; (literary) (of a sovereign) to summon to official service辟 pì: 辟 pi4: penal law辟 pì: 辟 pi4: to open (a door); to open up (for development); to dispel; to refute; to repudiate; (bound form) penetrating; incisive
- to pass through; via; by way of
- after the war; postwar
- sparse; scattered; rare; uncommon; diluted; thin; watery; (bound form) sth liquid or of thin consistency (as in 綠豆稀|绿豆稀[lu : 4 dou4 xi1] "sweet mung bean soup"); (bound form) totally; extremely (used with negative attributes, as in 稀糟[xi1 zao1] "utterly ruined")
- onomatopoeia
- mountain road
- (mountain) peak
- dainty
- lit. fish sink, goose alights (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]); fig. female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts
- 庄子 zhuāng zi: 庄子 zhuang1 zi5: (coll.) village; hamlet; CL:座[zuo4]庄子 Zhuāng zǐ: 庄子 Zhuang1 zi3: Zhuangzi (369-286 BC), Daoist author
- female court officials
- Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), species of deer native to China that is critically endangered
- Yongle Emperor, reign name of third Ming emperor Zhu Di 朱棣[Zhu1 Di4] (1360-1424), reigned 1403-1424, temple name 明成祖[Ming2 Cheng2 zu3]
- family of officials; family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)
- lit. hiding the moon, shaming the flowers (idiom); fig. female beauty exceeding even that of the natural world
- (bound form) water's edge; bank; shore; (bound form) to border on (a lake, river etc)
- to walk; to go on foot; to leave; to depart; (informal) to clear off; to beat it; (of sb who gets fired or resigns) to leave the job; to get out
- gait; to walk
- graceful; lithe; light and graceful; lighthearted; relaxed
- Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher