Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
- 大 dài: 大 dai4: see 大夫[dai4 fu5]大 dà: 大 da4: big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- (bound form) epidemic; plague
- to witness; to see at first hand; to see with one's own eyes
- court; imperial household; dynasty
- to relieve disaster; to help disaster victims
- high official
- to endure; to suffer; to be subjected to
- local official
- to bribe; a bribe
- on the contrary; instead
- to get; to obtain; to receive
- to advance to a higher-level position; to be promoted to a higher position in a new department
- fact; CL:個|个[ge4]
- easy to; convenient for
- nineteen; 19
- firmly; resolutely; without hesitation
- 上 shǎng: 上 shang3: used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]上 shàng: 上 shang4: (bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb; to get onto; to go up; to attend (class or university); (directional complement) up; (noun suffix) on; above
- 疏 Shū: 疏 Shu1: surname Shu疏 shū: 疏 shu1: to dredge; to clear away obstruction; thin; sparse; scanty; distant (relation); not close; to neglect; negligent; to present a memorial to the Emperor; commentary; annotation
- to attack (verbally or in writing)
- (historical) affairs of state at the imperial court
- to impeach (an official)
- 这 zhè: 这 zhe4: (pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)这 zhèi: 这 zhei4: (coll.) this
- sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old); classifier for written items: chapter, article
- to shock; to astonish
- all levels of society; the imperial court and the ordinary people
- 论 Lún: 论 Lun2: abbr. for 論語|论语[Lun2 yu3], The Analects (of Confucius)论 lùn: 论 lun4: opinion; view; theory; doctrine; to discuss; to talk about; to regard; to consider; per; by the (kilometer, hour etc)
- to assist; to complement; auxiliary
- 臣 Chén: 臣 Chen2: surname Chen臣 chén: 臣 chen2: state official or subject in dynastic China; I, your servant (used in addressing the sovereign); Kangxi radical 131
- to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- to suffer; to meet with (sth unfortunate)
- grave; serious; severe; critical
- politics; political
- to persecute
- quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu : 3 you2] to "go on a trip")
- to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region (punishment in imperial China); to banish or exile; (of immortals) to banish from Heaven; to censure; to blame
- to diminish; to demote; to reduce or devaluate; to disparage; to censure; to depreciate
- see 廣東省|广东省[Guang3 dong1 Sheng3]
- Xuwen, a county in Zhanjiang City 湛江市[Zhan4 jiang1 Shi4], Guangdong
- canon; law; standard work of scholarship; literary quotation or allusion; ceremony; to be in charge of; to mortgage or pawn
- 史 Shǐ: 史 Shi3: surname Shi史 shǐ: 史 shi3: history; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China
- 任 rèn: 任 ren4: to assign; to appoint; to take up a post; office; responsibility; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter (how, what etc); classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)任 Rén: 任 Ren2: surname Ren
- see 浙江省[Zhe4 jiang1 Sheng3]
- see 遂昌縣|遂昌县[Sui4 chang1 Xian4]
- county head magistrate (old)
- honest; uncorrupted
- thrifty and simple