Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- low; humble; plain; ugly; mean; vulgar
- a stand for food at sacrifice
- one's declining years; one's old age
- autumn scenery; harvest season
- ash gray; vast and hazy; flourishing
- to elaborate (on a theme); to expound (the classics); perfunctory; to skimp; to botch; to do sth half-heartedly or just for show; barely enough to get by
- (of streams) to come together; to converge; confluence; (fig.) compendium; (fig.) aggregation; (in the name of a shop) emporium; (Tw) club sandwich (abbr. for 總匯三明治|总汇三明治[zong3 hui4 san1 ming2 zhi4])
- to learn to walk; (fig.) to learn sth, making unsteady progress; to get started on the learning curve
- as soon as; once (an action has been completed)
- to criticize
- a common occurrence (idiom)
- divine physician; sage doctor; highly skilled practitioner
- hackneyed talk; platitude
- moral (of a story); lesson to be learned; implication; message; import; metaphorical meaning
- to become a member; to join; to mix into; to participate in; to add in
- (of descriptions, writing etc) vivid; lively
- dry and dull; uninteresting; tedious
- fun; interest; delight; taste; liking; preference
- to cite; to quote; to cite as evidence
- (great) majority
- to deceive; to hoodwink
- included; within that
- to draw up; to formulate
- Rizhilu or Record of daily study, by early Confucian philosopher Gu Yanwu 顧炎武|顾炎武
- to guide; to direct; to instruct; coach; trainer
- canon; religious rules
- standard; norm; criterion; (adjective) standard; good; correct; conforming to a standard
- to warn; to alert; warning; cautionary
- to negate; to deny; to reject; negative (answer); negation
- humorous; jocular; zany
- file; record; archive
- Xianfeng (1831-1861), reign name of Qing emperor, reigned from 1850-1861; Xianfeng County in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州[En1 shi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Hubei
- second year in junior middle school
- 昆 kūn: 昆 kun1: used in place names, notably Kunlun Mountains 崑崙|昆仑[Kun1 lun2]; (also used for transliteration)昆 kūn: 昆 kun1: descendant; elder brother; a style of Chinese poetry
- to shoot
- to visit one's parents