Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- 咱家 zá jiā: 咱家 za2 jia1: I; me; my; (often used in early vernacular literature)咱家 zán jiā: 咱家 zan2 jia1: I; me; we; my home; our house
- how can this be?; what's to be done?; what an awful mess!
- the rising sun
- 旗 qí: 旗 qi2: flag旗 qí: 旗 qi2: banner; flag; (in Qing times) Manchu (cf. 八旗[Ba1 qi2]); administrative subdivision in inner Mongolia equivalent to 縣|县[xian4] county; CL:面[mian4]
- airplane; CL:架[jia4]
- dad
- devil (derog. term for foreign invaders); (esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap; Nip
- (literary) forehead; (literary) countenance; features
- to resemble one another; to be alike; similar
- precious thing; treasure; culinary delicacy; rare; valuable; to value highly
- to change the laws; political reform; unconventional method
- (idiom) defiant of the law and lacking any sense of morality; lawless; out of control; unruly
- tobacco pipe
- shopkeeper
- yamen, government office in dynastic China
- partner; fellow; mate; waiter; servant; shop assistant
- store; shop
- apprentice; to serve an apprenticeship
- 长毛 Cháng máo: 长毛 Chang2 mao2: (derog.) the Longhairs (Taiping rebels of the 19th century)长毛 cháng máo: 长毛 chang2 mao2: long-wool (sheep etc); long-haired (dog etc)长毛 zhǎng máo: 长毛 zhang3 mao2: to grow hair; to become mildewed
- generation; period of 30 years; one's whole lifetime; lifelong; age; era; times; the whole world; the First (of numbered European kings)
- (literary) my deceased grandfather; (literary) ancestors
- foot soldier; minor figure; a nobody; (chess) pawn
- to burn incense
- to be indebted (to sb)
- to bless; to protect; protection (esp. divine)
- 家传 jiā zhuàn: 家传 jia1 zhuan4: family history (as a literary genre)家传 jiā chuán: 家传 jia1 chuan2: handed down in a family; family traditions
- jewel; gem; treasure; precious
- to bow in salute; to kowtow
- Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- to pray; prayer
- to lose; to leave behind (inadvertently)
- the emperor; Your majesty the emperor; His imperial majesty
- (of an emperor) to pass away
- to be; thus; so; therefore; then; only; thereupon
- to read a book; to study; to attend school