Vocabulary: 黑暗血时代
- to settle accounts; to clear accounts; to liquidate; to expose and criticize
- to fight a battle; to go to war
- bad luck; unlucky; calamitous; wretched
- to line up; to stand in line; (fig.) to take sides; to side with sb; to align oneself with a faction
- to fall from power; to collapse; downfall
- to fail to be chosen (or elected); to lose an election
- courtyard
- decree to grant a special pardon
- to carry out a vendetta against sb
- to drift
- lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth; many new things emerge in rapid succession
- large fall
- to share the booty; to divide ill-gotten gains
- feast
- newly rich; parvenu; upstart
- lit. to kill the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom); fig. to punish an individual as an example to others
- reason; intellect; rationality; rational
- with a rolling or twisting movement; in a single movement; in one breath
- human barricade; (soccer) defensive wall
- to punish
- to uncover; to ferret out (the culprit)
- inversely proportional; inverse ratio
- here; this place
- a mob of people
- (bound form) a compound made by mixing ingredients (esp. a medicinal or chemical product); (bound form) small piece of dough cut from a rolled log, used for making mantou (steamed buns) or dumplings; classifier for a dose of medicine
- flattering and fawning (idiom); sweet-talking
- to dominate; to control; to subdue; to crush
- to strike a pose (Chinese opera); (fig.) to make a public appearance; to come out in public (revealing one's true personality, opinions etc); (of a product) to appear on the market or at a trade show etc
- to overreach oneself; to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face
- blood-soaked
- Kaesong or Gaeseong city in southwest North Korea, close to the border with South Korea and a special economic zone for South Korean companies
- to wield (political etc) power; be in power
- to expose; to reveal
- the location below sth; afterwards
- dissenting words
- a spy; a crafty person