Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- cause; reason; because
- to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce
- Zhang Juzheng (1525-1582), Grand Secretary during the Ming dynasty, credited with bringing the dynasty to its apogee
- to rope in; fig. to involve sb; to entice
- to fail an exam
- until
- reign name of Ming emperor (1573-1619)
- 十一 shí yī: 十一 shi2 yi1: eleven; 11十一 Shí Yī: 十一 Shi2 Yi1: PRC National Day (October 1st)
- 岁 sùi: 岁 sui4: years old岁 sùi: 岁 sui4: classifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests)
- namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near
- to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned
- ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only; (emphatic, esp. in contrast or correction) really; actually
- successful candidate in the highest imperial civil service examination; palace graduate
- but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just
- to ingratiate oneself
- 新 Xīn: 新 Xin1: abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xin1 jiang1]; abbr. for Singapore 新加坡[Xin1 jia1 po1]; surname Xin新 xīn: 新 xin1: new; newly; meso- (chemistry)
- happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead
- barely; only; merely
- see 南京市[Nan2 jing1 Shi4]; Nanjing, capital of the Ming dynasty (1368–1421) and of the Republic of China (1927–1937 and 1946–1949)
- doctor (as an academic degree); (old) person specialized in a skill or trade; (old) court academician
- and so on; and such
- to be employed; to be in post; on-the-job
- period of time; time; time period; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- to wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
- to enter; to join; to go into
- actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to live; life; livelihood
- in the years of; during those years; period (of dynasty or decade)
- already; to stop; then; afterwards
- see 百孔千瘡|百孔千疮[bai3 kong3 qian1 chuang1]
- rotten; decayed; decadent; degenerate
- cannot bear; cannot stand; utterly; extremely
- sixteen; 16
- crop failure; famine; debt; difficulty
- after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then