Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- written in a forceful hand; penetrating; profound
- to compromise; to reach terms; a compromise
- smooth and evasive; slick and sly
- 世故 shì gù: 世故 shi4 gu4: the ways of the world世故 shì gu: 世故 shi4 gu5: sophisticated; worldly-wise
- to suppress; to inhibit; to stifle
- to keep quiet out of fear (idiom)
- easy; simple; rashly; offhandedly
- incompetence; inability; incapable; powerless
- to receive
- gold medal; CL:枚[mei2]
- to receive sb; to grant an interview
- to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon
- (of an emperor) to bestow
- halberd; long-handled weapon with pointed tip and crescent blade; combined spear and battle-ax
- eaves; ledge or brim
- 隆 lōng: 隆 long1: sound of drums隆 lóng: 隆 long2: grand; intense; prosperous; to swell; to bulge隆 Lóng: 隆 Long2: surname Long; short for 吉隆坡[Ji2 long2 po1], Kuala Lumpur
- (idiom) world-shaking
- to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)
- hey; ow; ouch; interjection of pain or surprise
- crow; raven
- skin and flesh; the physical body; (fig.) the superficial layer; surface aspects
- waistband of a skirt; (fig.) related to the wife or another female family member
- can it be possible that; could it be
- 三星 Sān xīng: 三星 San1 xing1: Samsung (South Korean electronics company); Sanxing or Sanhsing Township in Yilan County 宜蘭縣|宜兰县[Yi2 lan2 Xian4], Taiwan三星 sān xīng: 三星 san1 xing1: three major stars of the Three Stars 參宿|参宿[Shen1 xiu4] Chinese constellation; the belt of Orion; three spirits 福[fu2], 祿|禄[lu4], and 壽|寿[shou4] associated with the Three Stars 參宿|参宿[Shen1 xiu4] Chinese constellation
- to stand straight; attention! (order to troops)
- 跟前 gēn qián: 跟前 gen1 qian2: the front (of); (in) front; (in) sb's presence; just before (a date)跟前 gēn qian: 跟前 gen1 qian5: (of children, parents etc) at one's side; living with one
- to beat a gong; to sound the retreat
- to amuse oneself; to play with; to tease
- repeatedly (say something)
- relevant; to have to do with; (physics) (of light etc) coherent
- trough; manger; groove; channel; (Tw) (computing) hard drive
- pearl (CL:顆|颗[ke1],粒[li4]); (fig.) teardrop; tear