Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- to misuse; to abuse
- sentence; penalty; punishment
- file; record; archive
- external; foreign; pertaining to external or foreign (affairs)
- serious illness
- to stay in hospital; to be hospitalized
- 当夜 dāng yè: 当夜 dang1 ye4: on that night当夜 dàng yè: 当夜 dang4 ye4: that very night; the same night
- to retreat; to withdraw troops; to recall troops; fig. to finish work; to wind up; to call it a day; used with negatives: the task is far from over
- scramble for power and profit (idiom); power struggle
- crack; crevice
- (idiom) looking pensive; thoughtfully
- publicly known (to be); accepted (as)
- archive envelope; portfolio
- (Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)
- serene
- lit. to proclaim oneself hegemon; to take a leading role; to build a personal fiefdom
- to found; to create
- office workers (as social group)
- upper class; high society
- well-known figure; excellent (person, company etc)
- red giant (star)
- immensely pleased with oneself (idiom); proud; complacent
- keepsake; token
- disaster and happiness
- to rely on; to depend on; support
- beneath the surface; fundamentally; at the deepest level
- idea; concept; philosophy; theory
- line of thought; way of thinking
- to reckon; to calculate; to plan; to expect; to scheme
- emergency; sudden occurrence
- good or bad; good and bad; standard; quality; (coll.) very bad
- passive
- apes and monkeys
- monstrous and multicolored; grotesque and variegated
- to search; to seek; to explore
- to distinguish; to discern; to identify; to recognize