Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- new policy; New Deal (Roosevelt's 1933 policy to deal with the Great Depression)
- by comparison
- to come out on top; to win (in an election, contest etc); success; victory
- soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture
- lit. wind sighing and crane calling (idiom); fig. to panic at the slightest move; to be jittery
- (of two things) to come into contact; to meet; to hand over to; to take over from; to associate with; to have friendly relations with; to have sexual intercourse
- tonight
- not only that, but ...
- to determine the nature (of sth); to determine the chemical composition (of a substance); qualitative
- turmoil; upheaval; unrest
- to eliminate (by armed force)
- station; encampment
- to investigate thoroughly; to carefully inspect; to verify; to ferret out (undesirable elements)
- to evolve from
- wholeheartedness; sincerity
- lit. covered in dust (idiom); fig. travel-worn
- to search
- if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway
- to rob; to plunder; to seize by force; to coerce; calamity; abbr. for kalpa 劫波[jie2 bo1]
- to keep hidden; to keep in one's private possession; secret store; stash
- 落空 là kòng: 落空 la4 kong4: to omit; to neglect (to do sth); to miss a chance; to let an opportunity slip by落空 lào kōng: 落空 lao4 kong1: to fail to achieve something; to be fruitless落空 lùo kōng: 落空 luo4 kong1: to fail; to fall through; to come to nothing
- propeller
- to rise to power (in politics); to go on stage (in the theater)
- to implement; to carry out; to introduce (a policy, system, reform etc); to promote; to advance (the practice of an art form, the use of a language etc); to push along (a bicycle etc while walking)
- to make mischief; to play tricks
- to use force; to come to blows
- to use public office to avenge private wrongs
- openly; publicly; undisguised
- to detect; to sense
- to surround; to close in around (one's enemy, prey etc)
- matters; arrangements
- to lay down one's arms; to surrender; to disarm