Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- 脯 fǔ: 脯 fu3: dried meat; preserved fruit脯 pú: 脯 pu2: chest; breast
- (archaic) I; me (used by males during the Song and Yuan dynasties)
- portrait; to do a portrait of sb
- 纥 gē: 纥 ge1: knot纥 hé: 纥 he2: tassels
- see 平樂縣|平乐县[Ping2 le4 Xian4]
- nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words; You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic)
- to crack (seeds) between one's teeth
- high and steep
- to found a state; to open a closed country
- to assist (usually a ruler)
- Liu Bang (256 or 247-195 BC), bandit leader who became first Han emperor Han Gaozu 漢高祖|汉高祖 (reigned 202-195 BC)
- war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
- to recommend; to offer sacrifice (arch.); grass; straw mat
- to leave behind; to stay behind; to remain; to keep; not to let (sb) go
- to cooperate; in coordination with; coordinated; collaborate; collaboration; collaborative
- early youth; youngster; (literary) youth; young man
- to insult; to ridicule; to disgrace
- to grow up
- disgrace; dishonor; to insult; to bring disgrace or humiliation to; to be indebted to; self-deprecating; Taiwan pr. [ru4]
- underpants; trousers; pants
- to exhort
- timid; cowardly; rustic; Taiwan pr. [que4]
- to comfort; to console
- to return to
- chilling; chilly
- to be related; to be connected; relationship; connection
- state visitor; visiting head of state
- sweet; cute; delicately pretty
- to find a place for; to help settle down; to arrange for; undisturbed; peaceful
- to suffer; to torture; to torment; ordeal; suffering; torture; torment
- son born of a concubine; disaster; sin; evil
- to do evil; to commit sins
- a rush; scirpus cyperinus
- to not conform to; to be unsuited to; to be out of keeping with; should not; ought out
- lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu); fig. to feign one thing while doing another; to cheat under cover of a diversion
- combined assault; to mount a joint attack