Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- felt a chill (in one's heart); (one's heart) sank
- to equal; to be tantamount to
- to be on tenterhooks (idiom); to be anxious and frightened
- creek; stream; brook
- (of a person) short; (of a wall etc) low; (of rank) inferior (to); lower (than)
- small model car; mini-car; small horse-cart; barrow; wheelbarrow; type of folk dance
- to emphasize (a statement); to stress
- to turn back
- river bank
- either end of a bridge; a bridgehead
- to envelop; to wrap; to enclose
- 侧 cè: 侧 ce4: the side; to incline towards; to lean; inclined; lateral; side侧 zhāi: 侧 zhai1: lean on one side
- to pretend; to feign; to act a part
- narrow; narrow-minded; badly off
- caterpillar track (propulsion system used on bulldozers etc); (literary) shoes and belt
- morale
- downcast; gloomy; to decline; to get worse
- to advance; forward motion
- to chew; to think over
- signal made with one's eyes; meaningful glance
- to sit in on (proceedings); to be present at a meeting as an observer; to audit (a class)
- (dialect) to come to blows; to have a row
- calf (back of the leg below the knee)
- to weaken; to go soft (at the knees)
- (idiom) impatient; eager to (do sth); unable to wait any longer
- evening; night; late
- to be on guard; wariness; to guard against; preventive
- to increase (e.g. one's effort)
- strong; solid; firm; unyielding; resolute
- to receive
- billboard
- lit. to hang upside down; fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods); to borrow more than one can ever repay
- dead body; corpse (Note: In expressions like 屍首分離|尸首分离[shi1 shou5 fen1 li2] or 屍首異處|尸首异处[shi1 shou5 yi4 chu4], decapitation is implied.)
- lit. shocks the eye, astonishes the heart (idiom); shocking; horrible to see; a ghastly sight
- to promise; to pledge
- bucket
- to slink; to move stealthily; to advance through the water
- dark; dark colored
- perimeter wall; fence; CL:道[dao4]
- back door; back gate; (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings; anus; (computing) backdoor